Durham is one of our top northern hotspots for many reasons, the main one that lead us there being it’s the home of Elddis, or rather Consett just down the road. So, it was on the Monday after visiting our old haunts in main town Durham that we headed over to catch up with the folk at Elddis and give Buster time to see his relatives. Our hotspots in Durham are in … [Read more...] about And Then There Was Skegness!
The Long Way Up
We are now in Bonny Scotland and the road up has been the long way up, taking our time to visit many of the top UK tourist spots on the way. Like so many of our travels we have not given for one reason or another, enough time to many of these places, but of course we can re-visit another time, all things being willing. That said we started back on our travels after … [Read more...] about The Long Way Up
Rain or Shine
We have had a particularly lovely week this week despite saying our fond farewells to various relatives we have been able to meet up with on our travels back from the Dorset area. The weather has as ever been mixed, but as the saying goes “you don’t go to England for the weather” and of course you all had a decent Covid summer last year. That said we did manage to start the … [Read more...] about Rain or Shine
Busy Bees
Monday saw a grey start to the day again in the field in Catcott, but Buster and Jez were having a lovely time catching up with each other and their motorhome adventures. Jez, the Supersonic Adria was very happy as he had just found out that day, that Katherine and James were able to keep him, after finding an expat motor insurance for him. So, for Jez he will be heading back … [Read more...] about Busy Bees
Plains, Lanes and ..…Jersey Potatoes
This is now our second week of travelling around the UK in Buster, (our wonderful Elddis Encore) and we have to say we are loving it. The weather has been as we expected -interesting and for this week while London was sunny, we here on Chesil beach have had a variety of weather, with a fair amount of sea mist and fog. As we had Luke and Frank, the Elddis film crew here on … [Read more...] about Plains, Lanes and ..…Jersey Potatoes
Drifting Around
And that’s exactly what we have been doing this week, without much aim but with a general direction, which sees us ending this week with friends Darren and Johnny in Cabopino (Marbella) before hitting the road north on Monday and the last week of our overseas trip. We left Ronda on the Tuesday,and we have to say that we both absolutely took to Ronda. I was very … [Read more...] about Drifting Around
This Little Piggie Went to Market
And the little piggies and the huge big piggies as well probably did go to market, for we are well and truly in the jamon area north of Huelva, concentrating on the Sierra de Aracena. Valverde del Camino was a lovely free Aire spot, slightly noisy on a busy through road to Badajoz near the Portuguese border, and as David has already said, capital of riding boots for … [Read more...] about This Little Piggie Went to Market
Skyfall
There have been many times on this trip, where I would really have liked to have pushed David of a cliff or mountain, but this week wasn’t one of them, so he did it voluntarily himself on Tuesday, making his first ever tandem paragliding trip, jumping from some 1,050 metre (3,400 feet). The beautiful village of Algodonales, set on the edge of Sierra de Grazalema is … [Read more...] about Skyfall