Philomena and I started this blog as a way for friends and family to follow us and keep in touch as we travelled across Europe and, hopefully, beyond in our motorhome. We thought it would be easier than us sending multiple emails every day or so. So far it's worked out ok although my inability to post pictures is still an irritant. I know if I want to store all my pictures on Picasso I can then access them for the blog but I don't really want to go down that route. If anyone has any other suggestions or has experience of this problem I'd be pleased to hear from you, especially if your name is Page, Brin or Schmidt.
We've noticed, however, that our blog is reaching a wider audience; not that we're becoming famous or anything but the stats tell us that that folk are having a look at the blog from some far flung places, no jokes about Middlesborough please. So I thought it might be an idea to fill in a bit of background about who we are and what we're doing.
It's been a dream of ours to travel in a motorhome for as long as we can remember; the dream nearly became a reality over 30 years ago when we were pretty much all set to travel overland to India with our daughters (No, we're not hippies although we maybe had a hippy sensibility) but events conspired to prevent us realising our dream. Pregnancy, Russian invasion of Afghanistan, you know, the usual things.
Anyway, fast forward a few decades and we're both looking at retirement. With big smiles on our faces, natch. So, we do the sums and then we're off to the dealers looking at second hand motorhomes which, incidentally, cost more than we paid for our house! We saw one we liked and went away to think about it and then saw the same model for sale privately for a lot less money. Bought it, used it for one weekend and realised that putting the bed up every night and taking it down every morning was a big problem and not for us. First mistake and first lesson learnt. Back to the dealers, found what we wanted with a fixed bed and after some masterly haggling got what we wanted for more than we wanted to pay. But hey, it's only the kid's inheritance we're spending, right?
Meanwhile we'd read a few blogs and books by folk who had travelled across Europe for a year or more so we were picking up loads of tips. We subscribed to an excellent forum www.wildcamping.co.uk and the folk on there gave us so much invaluable advice. We had a few trial weekends away and now we're in Spain and we've been on the road for 3 weeks and we're experts. We define experts as people who make no more than 2 catastrophic mistakes each day.
So if you didn't know us before you have a bit more of an idea now of who we are. This gives you license to laugh at us and insult us in the comments section. We hope you do, it gets a bit lonely out here sometimes you know.
We've noticed, however, that our blog is reaching a wider audience; not that we're becoming famous or anything but the stats tell us that that folk are having a look at the blog from some far flung places, no jokes about Middlesborough please. So I thought it might be an idea to fill in a bit of background about who we are and what we're doing.
It's been a dream of ours to travel in a motorhome for as long as we can remember; the dream nearly became a reality over 30 years ago when we were pretty much all set to travel overland to India with our daughters (No, we're not hippies although we maybe had a hippy sensibility) but events conspired to prevent us realising our dream. Pregnancy, Russian invasion of Afghanistan, you know, the usual things.
Anyway, fast forward a few decades and we're both looking at retirement. With big smiles on our faces, natch. So, we do the sums and then we're off to the dealers looking at second hand motorhomes which, incidentally, cost more than we paid for our house! We saw one we liked and went away to think about it and then saw the same model for sale privately for a lot less money. Bought it, used it for one weekend and realised that putting the bed up every night and taking it down every morning was a big problem and not for us. First mistake and first lesson learnt. Back to the dealers, found what we wanted with a fixed bed and after some masterly haggling got what we wanted for more than we wanted to pay. But hey, it's only the kid's inheritance we're spending, right?
Meanwhile we'd read a few blogs and books by folk who had travelled across Europe for a year or more so we were picking up loads of tips. We subscribed to an excellent forum www.wildcamping.co.uk and the folk on there gave us so much invaluable advice. We had a few trial weekends away and now we're in Spain and we've been on the road for 3 weeks and we're experts. We define experts as people who make no more than 2 catastrophic mistakes each day.
So if you didn't know us before you have a bit more of an idea now of who we are. This gives you license to laugh at us and insult us in the comments section. We hope you do, it gets a bit lonely out here sometimes you know.
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