48 hours in Boston, MA

Day 1 We had arrived late (well 8pm – but 1am English time) so after arriving at our Air B n’ B around 9pm we hit the sacks, and therefore woke up very early on Day 1. Not wanting to waste a second, we showered and were out by 7am having breakfast at Dunkin Donuts, […]

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Go West for Summer – Part 6

Wednesday Wednesday dawned a beautiful morning and we were up and away before 10 heading up the coast to New Quay for our dolphin trip. New Quay is such a pretty little Harbour town- there is a large reasonably priced car park at the top and you can walk down the fairly steep but very […]

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Go West for Summer – Part 4

Saturday Saturday dawned with sunny spells so we wasted no time and made a packed lunch before setting off from the campsite with our best foot forward. The Camping and Caravan Club site was ideally located to visit the Blue Lagoon – only a mile walk to the beach at Abereiddy, behind which was a […]

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Go West for Summer – Part 3

Thursday It was another wet and wild night last night- we even had some thunder and lightening! Again we had winds ofup to 40mph- needless to say Jazz was on our bed again! Ruby is coping so well with the wild weather – we are toasty inside despite having no heating. The bikes are ok […]

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Our annual Pilgrimage to Scotland Part 3: A quick stopover at the Lake District 

Ruby the campervan is parked up alongside  Gillside Beck- we arrived here yesterday, Friday, after a fairly longish journey from our Loch Ness Brit Stop. The reason for departing Scotland a day early is stood proudly behind us, and frankly looks scary as hell- perhaps that’s where the name Helvellyn comes from! For a couple […]

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Summer 2016: Adventures in Europe, Part 9;  Austria into the Black Forest, Germany

Day 21 – Monday Location- Aire Traunsee, Ebensee, A.  €12 pn with services available extra GPS: n47.809070 e13.789990 Miles driven– 40 miles towards Prague, then 130 miles to a Lake in Austria! Weather– dry, sunny and warm! Bluebell the motorhome is parked with a beautiful lakeside view, surrounded by steep dramatic mountains. She’s had quite […]

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