With under 3 weeks to go before we head off to Bangkok, we’ve just had an email from the one and only guesthouse we booked for ths trip saying they are flooded and will be closed for at least a month. We had planned 3-4 days in Bangkok to aclimatise…
(See our tips page HERE) Something many motorhomers do not consider, is that all campervans require maintenance. If you consider the shaking, twisting and bending that they get – its like your house is undergoing an earthquake every day! Not only that, many leisure items are really designed for a…
Just a quick update: This site has been focused on our European trips, and since we’ve come back from our last trip (Trip 9) we’ve been UK based looking for areas to buy a house. So van is in heavy use still, but just not written it up. However, from…
Solar? Just thought I’d put a post on here about my Dads new home solar system he has just had fitted (late September 2011). PV Solar (electricy generating) isn’t cheap nor efficient, and really it isn’t worth it. Until that is, the government backed scheme for energy companies to pay…
UPDATE: This post is now OUT OF DATE – see HERE for the latest data I know – I’m hanging my head in shame, but we are members of the Caravan club. Eek. Anyway, they do provide GPS data on their website, but they only do it in particular formats,…
Index for this trip HERE Travel Ferry 80.00 € Tolls 3.00 € Fuel 572.00 € Parking (see Wild if overnight stop) 2.00 € Train/bus/tram 0.00 € Subsistence Food 335.00 € Gas 28.00 € Entertainment/Goodies 421.00 € Essentials (laundry, household, repairs) 109.00 €…
Index for this trip HERE After 8 weeks and almost into September, we are fortunately still blessed with pretty good weather. On leaving La Rochelle we headed on the coastal roads through some reasonably generic tourist towns until we got to Les Sables-d’Olonne. Les Sables appears to be a better…
Our POI download page HERE has been updated to include Autoroute 2011 versions of the POI databases. The data file upgrade from 2010 version to 2011 doesn’t work properly, so if you get the 2011 version download the updated POI files, though the content is the same, they have been…
Index for this trip HERE On leaving Rocamadour we had a nice chat with our “neighbours” – and her English was only slight better than our French, but it was actually rather good to mutually cock up both languages yet still have a conversation! We headed to Sarlat-la-Canéda which was…
Can you believe it? This year, we’ve had 2 months snowboarding; a month mountain biking; and a fair amount of time wakeboarding, and pretty much we came away unscathed. But the seemingly harmless pursuit of swimming in the sea (ok – the waves were probably 2m tall, forceful, but fun),…