/ 14 August 2019 Guided by our amazing friends in Sweden, we discovered so many wonderful and strange things during our 4 week exploration of the south of this fantastic country – a real highlight of our tour so far. Swedish hospitality First at Västervik and then in Vimmerby, we were welcomed, entertained and generally spoilt rotten – by […]
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/ 4 August 2019 All through July I took a few pics of where we parked/camped/slept each night: Nature reserves, marinas, a bison farm, town and city centre car parks, fjords, lakes and being spoilt rotten at our Swedish friend’s houses. Our Benimar Mileo van ‘Stargazer’ is the star of this one 🙂 The ditty is a sketch of a new
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/ 19 July 2019 “Can anyone remember what they were doing 100 days ago?” I started into my story at the Västervik Live Songs and Stories event, to a friendly crowd of Swedes in the historic and picturesque Båtmansgränd (the old boatmen’s houses). April 9th was ‘day 1’, when we left Newcastle and started our new life in the
/ 8 July 2019 We often find ourselves quoting Richard Ayoade’s Travel Man when we get parked and start exploring somewhere new: “Well, we’re here – but should we have come?” We remembered he’d been to Copenhagen and thought we’d compare our 48 hour stint with his. Bearing in mind that Denmark has the 7th highest cost of living
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/ 5 July 2019 To escape the heat in Budapest, we headed north, towards our ultimate goal of Sweden, and meandered through Slovakia, a corner of the Czech Republic, up through western Poland and then into Germany. Here’s our highlights… Wrocław, Poland Can anyone outside Poland pronounce the name of this fantastic city properly? It’s not ‘rock-claw’. Something like
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/ 25 June 2019 An update as we are 75 days in to our van life and approximately halfway around our first semi-planned route/adventure around Europe. Geek alert – contains data on costs and stats… So, I finished work officially on April 6th and we set off on April 9th, leaving Britain and Brexit and renting out our house
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/ 13 June 2019 We didn’t really have a plan for Hungary – no surprise there! We’d seen Lake Balaton on the map – it is huge, 78km long – and heard about it from a German chap we met at the camp site in Venice. When he was young, in East Germany, he liked to visit Balaton because
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/ 3 June 2019 We loved Slovenia! Not a huge country, but a huge range of sights, sounds and tastes. Here’s our favourites from a 17 day tour… from the coast to the capital via caves and beer fountains!
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/ 28 May 2019 Such an amazing city, I was really keen to find a way to visit Venice again. Obviously, you can’t really drive there. There is a ‘area sosta camper’ on the island of Tronchetto, across the lagoon on the edge of the city – but we’d seen mixed reviews and opted for a site just on
/ 27 May 2019 Heading towards Venezia, up in the hills above Vicenza, Bev found us a place to park up at a vineyard – La Colline del Vitacchio. It’s free to stay, if you have a taste and buy some wine. There were a few local characters in, lots of banter but they had such a strong dialect,
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