Bridget Naylor

Our final stops

Our night was slightly disturbed. We had parked near a yellow digger that got taken away at 11pm and then a huge truck turned up at 2.30am to deliver another machine! This was taken into the chateaux garden at 8am! We headed into Fontainebleau through the chateau grounds and

Meandering back through France

We drove through the beautiful spanish countryside and over the Pyrenees (with a few old piles of snow)  to the lovely French town of Saint-Jean-Pied-du-Port. It is famous for being one of the tradional starting points of the Way of St. James (the pilgrimage of Santiago de Compostela). The town

Wow scenery and wine

The next day we drove to the 'Aizkorri-Aratz parke naturala' and parked near the Ullibarri-Gamboa Resevoir. After lazying about over a long lunch and coffee we took the dogs for a walk round the edge of the water once it had started to cool down. The next day

Spanish Basque Country

On Sunday we bought mammouth croisants from the campsite shop and then decided to do the 6km walk to Orio. On the way we stopped to watch a 7km run that started from the vinyard next door. It was up and down the vines which looked hard work! (I did

To Sunny Spain

The next day we decided that we would try and explore the Bordeaux area. We had worked out that you could get a ferry from Blaye to Lamarque across the Gironde River. It had a 3.5T limit so we hoped we would be OK. So we left before breakfast

Bordeaux country

We left the next morning to drive to La Rochelle. We decided to have a decent dog walk on the way so stopped in La Couture, small village in the Marvais Poitevin National Park. The pleasant walk followed the small Le Lay river on country lanes and then through woodland

Exploring on the fold-ups

Before leaving La Fleche we decided to explore the area on our fold up bikes. Mike's is a vintage Brompton whilst mine is a brand new top of range B-Twin from Decathlon! The lovely 20km flat route took us along to river to Bazouges sur le Loir then

Chalk and Cheese

We woke up to rain on Saturday morning for our drive to Sandringham. Sadly I went down with a stomach bug early Saturday morning so the day was a bit of a wash out! Being ill in a motorhome is not much fun so we did discuss going home but

Poppies, churches and sea views

It feels so good to be back out in Vincent.  The last time he left the drive, apart for a garage visit, was November.  Our first stop was a small Caravan and Motorhome club CL on the outskirts of Cromer.  There were mainly caravans there and a nice chatty man

Bruises and final views

We woke to a lovely morning so decided to explore by bike. The farm was just off the national cycle trail 78 so we plotted a great circular route - mostly off road but all on tarmac so a lot easier than the ride at Loch Ness. Sadly we had

Old men and no monsters

On Sunday we had booked into a Camping and Caravanning Club site at the end of Skye so decided to go for a walk first. We drove through Portree and up to the parking for the walk up to the Old Man of Storr, probably the most famous walk on

Blue Skye

We promptly left Arisaig at 9am and drove to Mallaig to catch the ferry to Skye. We had an hour to spare which gave us time to buy some groceries. The Co-Op would not let us buy the alcohol until 10am so I returned to Vincent with the food whilst

Catching up with family

So on Monday we left Mitzi in Vincent and headed off into Ardfern village with Luna. We had a lovely walk across the top of the peninsular and through woodland to the village the other side. We walked along the shore for the last bit and lost the path so

Amazing scottish views

The forecast was right and Friday morning was very wet. We managed to take the dogs out for 40mins (in which time we met a hiker wearing a kilt!) then had a lazy morning inside. In the afternoon the sun came out so we decided to go for a walk.

Scottish Lochs

The first two days of this trip has reminded me how much I love travelling in the motorhome - although I wish it looked less like a white box! Our three weeks had been due to start today but as the solar panel fitting was cancelled we decided to leave

Walking the Derbyshire Dales

The next day we decided to complete a circular walk which included Dovedale, a well known pretty valley owned by the National Trust. We hardly saw anyone as we walked across the hills and then down into Alstonefield where we managed to buy a  hot pasty to eat by the

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Flat and then too steep for Vincent

So on Friday July 10th we drove to our next site - a camping and caravan club certified site. These are small private sites which usually only take a few motorhomes or caravans. The site was sited a short walk from Walcott, on the north Norfolk coast. When we had

Escaping to Norfolk

We decided that we would take the opportuntiy to get away on July 4th, the day lockdown was eased, but headed East to Norfolk in the hope that everyone else headed West! Vincent now has a bike rack - so with our bikes and all out cycling gear we planned

Oct-Dec

Home for Xmas!

We woke to a beautiful sunrise and had a lovely walk round the fields. We nearly lost the dogs as they chased a deer scent but luckily they are too small to really catch up with anything. Our first frostWe left the farm after breakfast and headed north. We drove

Oct-Dec

France Passion

We left Camping Les Cigules after breakfast and headed along the coast.  Mike had studied the forecast map carefully and assured me that the forecast for Toulon was sun!  The drive towards Frejus was stunning and we thought of stopping there but the town did not seem very impressive and

Oct-Dec

Italian walled cities

We arrived at the camper parking at Monteriggioni in time to walk up to the castle walls and watch the pretty sunset. Monteriggioni is a small town surrounded by an intact circle of walls that sits quite high up so that there are good views from the wall gates. We

Oct-Dec

Culture and Pasta

We left Colico with the sun shining and headed down the lake and into rain!  We had decided to visit a couple of places on the River Mincio listed on drive 7 in our book. We arrived (100 + miles later a 1/3 of it tunnel!) at the aire at

Oct-Dec

Stunning scenery at Lake Como

After a very wet night we woke up on Tuesday morning to fantastic views of the surrounding mountains so we rushed out to walk the dogs - just in case it all disappeared.  Luckily the sun came out so we could enjoy the scenery all day.  When we walked the

Oct-Dec

Decisions, decisions....

We woke up in the morning to thick cloud so we could not see the fantastic view from the fromagerie car park. After subjecting Charlotte to a Vincent shower we drove down to the lake to have breakfast at Saint Aubin Port. We all enjoyed eggy bread and then decided

Oct-Dec

Views from the wanderweg

We woke up early planning to get to the next campsite before the rugby started. But when we got up the view over the lake was stunning and we spent a long time standing by the lake talking to a British family so we ended up staying at the campsite