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In the summer of 2018, a few months after buying our first campervan, we headed off on our first journey across the Channel as we embarked on a 3-month trip around Europe. Europe is a wonderfully welcoming and diverse region waiting to be explored. More importantly, unlike some of the Read More …
Our 3-month campervan trip in the summer of 2018 was planned around visiting Norway and in particular heading up to the Lofoten Islands. Norway is such a stunning country, so rich in natural beauty its difficult to define the highlights. Sometimes just rounding a bend will give another view to Read More …
The Middle-East has always held a mystical fascination. Despite being surrounded by countries with questionable stability and safety, Jordan is a relative oasis of calm filled with history and natural wonders. Relatively compact and with safe roads meant we could plan a 9-day road-trip to visit the main highlights – Read More …
In October 2018 we completed a trek to Everest Base Camp, returning via Cho-la Pass and Goyko Lakes. Thanks to the Evertrek team and the guides for organising such a great trip! I used the Viewranger app to track each day of our route. Below you can see the Read More …
The video below is a compilation of our overnight stops during our three month trip to Europe in the summer of 2018. I’ve also added all our overnight stops from our three month Europe trip on the map below. Blue = free/wild overnight spots Red = campsite/aire paid overnight stops Read More …
A somewhat belated post as we are already a month into our trip. We bought our campervan (a Westfalia Columbus 600D) last August with the idea of eventually taking an extended break from work and undertaking a tour around Europe. Fast forward to this year and after a couple of Read More …
Highlights from a 6-day road-trip around western Iceland.
We returned to the Dolomites this year for our annual boys weekend away, heading for the Tre Cima range north-west of Cortina. Although early in the season and some huts not yet open, we’d booked in to Refugio Lavaredo which sits at the foot of the iconic Tre Cima triple Read More …
Early each year we start to think about possible destinations for our annual long weekend jaunt to somewhere in European mountains. After several years trips the challenge is to find somewhere that we haven’t been to, has decent mountains (ideally fairly high with huts) and reasonable regular/cheap flights. After the Read More …
This years mountain weekend was a little further afield, aiming to summit Mount Toubkal, the highest peak in North Africa at 4,167m. Eminently doable in a long weekend we flew to Marrakesh and immediately took a taxi to the village of Imlil in the foothills of the Atlas Mountains. The Read More …