Our journey south had gone well. Clara had performed magnificently, we’d not got too lost and we’d covered almost as many miles as we’d aimed for. Sat eating our freshly baked croissants just west of Dax, our thoughts were now turned … Continued
I’m splitting our ‘Clara goes to Spain’ jaunt into three separate blog posts. It was predictably epic. Imagine Lord of the Rings with a sunflowered campervan and you’ll be fairly close… My usual mantra when writing about our beloved Clara … Continued
A recent Facebook conversation sparked this post, and for it, we’re being whisked back to 2005 and a blustery November. This is pre-Sawyer and a time when we would recklessly book a foreign mini-break on the Internet, usually late at … Continued
Day 1: Derby, UK to Calais, France With the Olympic torch skirting it’s way around London we feared the worse. We set off very early… And absolutely unheard of for us; we arrived in Dover 4 hours early for our ferry … Continued
In 3 days time, just as the UK gets it’s long overdue heatwave, we’ll be packing our car & heading off for sunnier climes… A drive down to Dover to catch a ferry to Calais and then a 3 day drive down through France to a Spanish villa near Zaragoza. After a week of hopefully doing very little, we’re then faced with a 2 day drive up to a French campsite, 2 days camping, followed by a another day up to Calais and then a final day driving back home. Simples 🙄 The Olympic torch will be making it’s merry/annoying way around London on the day we attempt to get down to Dover, the Olympics will be in full flow the day we attempt to cross London on our return, and then there’s the ‘small’ matter of our tent…