So, 7 months and 23 countries later, and we are back on British soil just in time for Christmas. Europe has blown us away, it’s right on our doorstep and just waiting to be explored beyond the much visited cities. It’s the varied cultures, diverse scenery and cute villages that have wowed us and it’s…
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More tumble weeds than people in the Spanish Desert
As we drove along the bumpy dirt road and turned a bend we couldn’t believe the scenery that lay ahead of us; a desert that resembled Monument Valley, but we were thousands of miles from Arizona. We were actually driving through the badlands of Northern Spain. Bardenas Reales is an unpopulated area made up of…
One week in Switzerland for €25pp
We hadn’t planned to visit Switzerland, mainly because it’s too expensive for us penny-pinchers, but we were so close and knew we’d never be able to afford a holiday there, unless of course we had a hotel on wheels and stocked up on food beforehand! And what a fantastic choice it was; the mountain scenery…
Doesn’t get better than this – The Swiss Alps
Five kilometres from the Swiss border Pablo started making a horrible squeaky noise and we figured it was the brakes. We couldn’t believe our luck; Switzerland is renowned for being stupidly expensive so a trip to the mechanic sounded really exciting for our budget! We were so annoyed as it was amazing weather at last….
Rainy days in our campervan
The rain has arrived with a vengeance after five months with hardly a drop. It’s a bloody persistent rain too, and it’s times like these that are miserable in a campervan. I wish we had a TV, a dehumidifier, wifi, and a battery that never went flat. Other times when it’s rained we’ve been in…
A taste of Sweden
We only spent 4 days in Sweden as we’ll be coming back through the northern section in a couple of weeks. But it was a good taster. The country is flatter, so yes, less dramatic than Norway, but bloody great driving for Pablo. The scenery reminded us of Canada; pine forests, mirrored lakes and lonely…
Living the dream – Campervan life
Here are a few photos of the past few days road-tripping around the fjords in Norway. Absolutely loving campervan life, it’s my favourite way to travel, we’ve done a lot of backpacking and it’s so nice to shed the turtle house and have a home on wheels again.
An interesting trip to the mechanics
So as I said in the last post, Pablo’s exhaust had totally cracked due to some industrial rubber band snapping and causing too much pressure on the already rusty exhaust pipe. We killed a day at a small lake near St.Gilgen, this area of Austria – Salzkammergut is their version of the Lake District and…
Pablo the super-van
So we’ve been on the road now for 3 weeks and Pablo’s been an absolute trooper, we were both a little worried with her problems before we left the UK but so far so good, and we’ve taken her up some tough roads through the alps. Sleeping and living wise I think we’ve designed her…
NON STOP TRAVELLING 