Just down the road is badfart. No bottomfart or fanifart yet. In bar drinking beer at £7 each though they are 750 ml been to legoland today. For free. Knackered and will sleep well. Awainting nice waitress to bring us food and maybe more beer. Nice view over fjord so can’t complain. Hope all is well with everyone. Feel free to contact us as missing friends and family.

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Hi from Denmark.  Weather much better today – phew. 

Just in Skive and unlike its namesake we’re not skiving, we found a laundrette so sadly doing a huge batch of washing.  The good news is we moved the van to a convenient parking space where there is unsecured wifi in range and my long range aerial finds it well   So rather than watching the machine go round we can have a cuppa and some free internet time.

We are enjoying this trip despite the wind, and as you can see the beach isn’t quite bikini weather.  Heading north to the most northerly point over the next few days, then we’d have covered most of Jutland, then off to Fyn (Funen) and Zealand for Copenhagen in a week or so?  No idea really!

The Danish are very friendly and their English is perfect (fortunately)!

Thanks everyone for all the emails – nice to catch up with everyone.

R&M

Week 3 diary has been updated – see here for details

Rather annoying how windy and wet it is – if varies from very hot and sunny to absolute down pour.  Wouldn’t be so bad if it was predictable but it changes every 15 minutes.  Oh well – at least we know van is water tight!

Currently borrowing wifi on the western coast of Denmark where we’re about to get blown over, but if we survive this rocking-coffee we’ll check out the kite surfing on the beach….

There is some blue sky on the horizon….

Currently in Celle, Germany, a rather nice and pleasant old town.  Really beautiful to look at and about to go into the park.

Tomorrow off to Bergen-Belson which is the site of an old concentration camp where Anne Frank was killed

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In Germany in a place called Bevern and found some WiFi in town, so just uploaded Week 2 diary – CLICK HERE .

Weather still varies between “July” and “October”, currently “October”.  Following the river Weser northbound towards Hanover so will be in the city maybe tomorrow – just exploring all the small towns and villages en route. 

Hope all is well with everyone at home

R&M

Well trying out blogging from my iPod which if it works is really cool and will make my life a little easier.

Just arrived in Albasserdam to a new aire which is very rare in holland. So far so good with lovely views over the Marina and we will venture into the town and explore once the rain ceases!

Our german lessons are going ok and we now understand and can say “the dog is under the aeroplane”. Useful or what!? We have already mastered “two large cold beers please”.

Anyway as still in holland we’ll stick to English for a while!

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Just to let everyone know we’re away on our next trip – currently in Lier in Belgium looking for a good beer, but soon escaping to Holland.

Blog and details will be forthcoming as we continue the trip – watch this space!

(Also this is a test message to make sure I can email my website and it gets posted J)

Ryan & Mel

Blimey!  I know we like camping and adventures, but looks like we’re not the only ones!

Almost 3,000 unique visitors in July – hopefully most found something interesting.  Not bad either considering we’ve not had a major trip for 6 months!  That said, as we write this, we’re filling the van up with water ready to go tomorrow on a 2 month trip, and this afternoon (after the F1 of course!) we’ll be looking at a map and deciding where we’re actually going to go.

This site was set up just to be a diary/blog for friends and family and we did not expect this amount of traffiic. The downside of all the visitors is that my cheap hosting costs doubled in March when I had to upgrade the hosting to the next level, and already in July I hit my quota and will need to upgrade yet again to the next level!  Mainly due to literally 1,000+ people downloading all our GPS Databases (POIs).

The googleads go someway to cover our current costs but if we need to upgrade in August then we’ll either have to disable the downloads later in the month or upgrade again and hope the ad revenue goes up.  So, if you like anything our ad sponsors have to offer, or indeed you buy from Amazon, then feel free to use our links on this site and help keep the site running.

Hope you do find this site useful – and hope you have happy and adventurous travels!

Just a quick update before our next major trip starts next week.

We’re currently having a watersports break which started with a couple of Wakeboarding sessions, one for the ladies at JBSki at Thorpe Park (for Mel obviously, though Ryan enjoyed the show! ), then up to WMSki in the Cotswolds for Ryan to play on the ramps….  .  I’m okay – bruises heal!

Currently in Cornwall in Watergate Bay at the Extreme Acadamy where Mel is becoming a surf bum and is doing well standing on her board (aledgedly – I’ve not seen her yet!).  And I’ve been having kite-surfing lessons though today was just kiting which I’m okay at having had enough time on beaches with our power kite on the last trips.  Sadly wind not strong enough to hit the water today so hoping the wind picks up over the next few days.

Been an interesting few weeks or so – met some good and hospitible friends and been out with far too many meals with friends and family.  I guess the extra fat will keep us warm in the sea - no whale comments please

Next trip to Europe starts on 3 August…..  (Assuming no more A&E trips…..)

At last – the moment we’ve been waiting for!

We’ve exchange contracts on our house sale, so as of the end of July we’ll be able to cut our ties as we are “moving in” with family, meaning that we can undergo some major trips without the worry of keeping the house going with all the insurance and the like.  This is one of the reasons we’ve not bee able to go on a long trip this year.  But – we will pushing our boundaries soon!

YYYYIIIIPPPPIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!