Summer 2016: Adventures in Europe, Part 5; The Romantic Road, Germany

Day 9- Thursday Location: Würzburg DE. Aire on River Main. No services €3/24hrs GPS n49.797080, e9.923020 Miles Driven: Bacharach- Würzburg 125 miles Weather: mainly wet- dry in afternoon Bluebell the motorhome is parked right beside the river Maine, 500m walk from the small historical city of Wurzburg, at the northern end of the Romantic Road. […]

Summer 2016: Adventures in Europe, Part 4; The Rhine Gorge, Germany

Day 7- Tuesday Location: Koblenz DE. Free aire 2km out of main old town (cycle path down the Mosel River) no services GPS n50.365690, e7.573830 Miles Driven: Arnem – Koblenz 166 miles Weather: mainly wet Bluebell the motorhome is in Germany! We are parked up almost on the River Mosel, with around 50 other vans, mainly […]

Summer 2016: Adventures in Europe, Part 3; the Netherlands

Day 4 – Saturday Location: Alblasserdam, NL. Private aire €15 all services inc 100mb internet and toilets and showers GPS n51.86106, e4.65799 Miles Driven: Ronquieres – Alblasserdam 116m Weather: cloudy with a couple of rain showers Bluebell the motorhome is parked up alongside a harbour, just south of Rotterdam on a very swanky aire. The […]

Summer 2016: Adventures in Europe, Part 2 ; Brugges and The Battle of Waterloo

Day 3– Friday Location: Ronquieres, BE. Free aire, no services GPS n50,60636, e4,22249 Miles Driven: Brugges – Waterloo 80m, Waterloo- Ronquieres 16m. Total 96m Weather: rain overnight and a shower this morning, otherwise sunny Bluebell the Motorhome is parked up alongside the river in a quiet village aire called Ronquieres. She’s got some French and […]

Summer 2016: Adventures in Europe, Part 1

Day 1- Wednesday Location: Oye-Plage, Nord- Pas de Calais. Free aire, no services GPS n50,99703 e2,04228 Miles Driven: 152m Norfolk – Calais, 10m Calais – Oye-Plage. Total 162m Weather: overcast, some sunny spells Bluebell the motorhome is parked up by the sea alongside several other vans from across the continent and we are waving to […]

On the road with CoPilot Caravan App

Getting from A to B in Bluebell the motorhome is quite different to getting from A to B in our little Yoda the Skoda. We need to consider many different factors when planning our jaunts in the motorhome, but mainly the issues we run into (sadly literally in one case back in 2010!) are our […]

Scotland May Half Term – Part 3

Tuesday morning saw us saying a reluctant goodbye to Glen Nevis Holiday Park and Fort William. We were heading North, to Clachtoll, which is about 40 miles north of Ullapool. The journey was due to take us about 5 hours as the direct route is still smallish roads ( not duelled). As it happens It took […]

Scotland May Half Term 2016 Part 2

Sunday dawned with beautiful blue skies across Loch Linney. We packed up and made our way along the scenic route to Fort William, 32 miles, 20 of which were on single track road on the loch side. We had uninterrupted views of the Summit of Ben Nevis and soon found a picturesque parking area […]

Scotland – May Half Term 2016 Part 1

Bluebell the motorhome is parked up admiring the views, and boy, are they special. We are up in the Highlands of Scotland, and, wait for it……. It’s glorious sunshine! Hurrah! The last week has been ridiculously busy, we bought a house, moved in, had two big gigs, not to mention our normal teaching schedule. […]

Sunny Spring Bank Holiday on the East Coast of England

Bank Holiday Saturday Bluebell the motorhome is feeling like she’s experiencing a case of De-ja-vu, she parked up by the sea and she’s fairly sure she recognises the view! She’s right, we have been here before, and unlike anything that we usually do, we’ve decided to come back to Flint House CL in Walcott, Norfolk […]