Author: Janet

The very tired driver slept a solid eleven and a half hours last night. We decided that all the mini roundabouts, chicanes and general street furniture make for difficult driving in a motorhome.In order to get some way south without

Here we are again – not even sure where we are heading for this time, but a stop at Guy’s parents is on the cards followed by a visit to see Karen and John in Latour. After that, we plan

The drive up to Calais from just south of Rouen on Tuesday was a very rainy and miserable one. We didn’t even have a walk as it was torrential at times. Had to content ourselves with a final shop in

After a fill up with diesel and a quick Lidl stop, we carried on north up the tedious A roads. Trying to avoid paying expensive tolls isn’t easy when you’re covering about 1000km through France. Seemed to be even more

Nice quiet night by the lake and then a long drive up to Amboise. Should have been about two hours but detours and slow roads meant we had to stop for lunch on the way. We pulled in to this

Kept a low profile this morning as it seemed like our neighbour might not know when to stop talking. He homed in on Guy though, as we drove up to the services….“Oh hiya, have you been into town?”“Where are you

After a quiet night up in the mountains, it seemed like we were suddenly on slow and winding roads down the hill towards Pau. Then the roundabouts started! So many of them and chicanes too. We had to get on

Straight up the road to Huesca this morning, and a final pit stop in Lidl (more wine 🍷 😳), then on to Sabiñánigo for LPG before we run out completely.From there, we followed the route up into the Pyrenees and

For what was a two hour journey today, it seemed to take forever. We had to stop for diesel ( under £1 per litre), then we decided to put some chicken in the oven for lunch, thinking it would be

We went for a walk down by the riverside this morning – it was freezing cold in the shade, which was a surprise after it being so hot last night. We saw lots of different birds but mainly herons along