From Rat Race to Road Trip: Overlanding With Four Dogs!
Fairytale city I was promised. Fairytale city I got. Rothenburg ob der Tauber is truthfully THE most beautiful place that I have ever visited.
Who needs Disneyland when real places like this exist?!Continue reading “A Fairytale of Rothenburg ob der Tauber”
If you want to experience adrenaline; drive a large caravan around Paris.
To increase the thrill still further; be a passenger in the tow vehicle!
Continue reading “Break for the Border – NE France; Sézanne to Vilsberg”
Last Wednesday, it was Britain’s hottest day since the heatwave of 1976. At 06:30, as we departed for the ferry, it rained. A lot. On the ferry it rained. A lot. And en route, a lot. We seemed to have exported British rain to Brittany, but at least it’s rain with roulade rather than rosbiff!
Kai had been unsettled by the journey and agreed to eat only when spoon fed. When we arrived, I took the pups for a long-awaited walk on the beach and through the forest. The scent of pine took me straight back – not just to our previous time here in Penthièvre (see our Postcard from Quiberon – Part 1 and Part 2.) It was as heady as the patchouli oil with which we used to douse ourselves when we all dressed as hippies in that heatwave of 1976!Continue reading “Fandangles in France – High Drama on the High Seas!”
We were on the way out of the door because we had just received a phone call; “Your caravan is ready to collect from its service.”
The second phone call, ten minutes later, informed us “Your caravan is unfit to drive.”
The word ‘axle’ was mentioned, as were the words “it is your fault and not covered under warranty.”
That was the bad news. Along with “And so we are homeless!” of course!Continue reading “Operation Overload – A Caravan Catastrophe!”
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