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Gibraltar February 26th

Parked up on the Marina just over the border to Gibraltar, on a very blowy and wet day.

Posted in 2022 Spring, Gibraltar

Seagulls Flying Backwards Today

After a great Christmas we are the road again. Storm Imogen chased us down the M6 and over the channel. Penny’s favourite seat….best used when I’m not driving. We stopped at Port Solent en route…masses of free motorhome parking…to give

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Posted in - France, - United Kingdom, 2016 Spring, Caen, Lower Normandy, Portsmouth

Hoovering with the Krays

The downside to motor homing is that you are required by the Missus to hoover the house before you are allowed to set off. I was closely watched yesterday, while performing this chore, by Colin and Penny, aka the Kray

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Posted in - United Kingdom, Autumn 2015, Hampshire, Portsmouth

High Wind Stops Play

We have been staying at Fishery Creek on Hayling Island, a good site next to a muddy and bird infested creek…very pleasant. We had some good walks and cycle rides and made friends with Maurice and Alison, from Grand Cayman

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Posted in - United Kingdom, Folkestone, Hampshire, Hayling Island, Kent, May/June 2015

Devizes.. We find some useful advice for the young married couple.

We took the bus in to Devizes, about 4 miles form the campsite, this morning. It is a pretty and old town, very much centred around the Kennet and Avon canal and home to the Wadworths brewery (factoid of interest

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Posted in - United Kingdom, 2015 Spring, Devizes, Wiltshire

We’re Off

After enjoying Cumbrian snow and ice for a while we have decided to make tracks south again and work on the suntans. This is a view of Skiddaw from the top of High Pike, taken after a heavy snowfall in

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Posted in - United Kingdom, 2015 Spring, Devizes, Wiltshire

Brighton to Bayeux

We left Brighton campsite at about 7.45 am for a short drive along the coast, past Roedean school, to pick up the Newhaven – Dieppe ferry which left at 10 am.   Fout hours later we tied up at Dieppe

Posted in - United Kingdom, 2014 Autumn, Newhaven, Sussex

Cumbria to Brighton

Welcome to the new look blog. We have added an index to some of the sites we have visited on the right, classified by country then region…just click on the place name to see the linked blog post. There are

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Posted in - United Kingdom, 2014 Autumn, Sussex

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