Indulge me for a moment please. A quick excited paragraph that’ll mean nothing to those who don’t write: I often take notes, and write more personal thoughts on a little phone app that had no functionality whatsoever. It was what made the app attractive. You couldn’t send it anywhere, you couldn’t publish, you couldn’t copy, […]

La Mimosa. I enjoy pulling the blog together, it gives me a chance to review the past week. Often we marvel that the times I recount took place so recently. Last evening as I finished the post I was knackered. More tired than I can remember. We’d done a hard stank in hot sunshine and […]

In which we start walking further than we’ve walked before.  In which the great floral display of Sardinia blooms supreme. Channel crossing. Cruising out of Bonifacio the town towers over the sea. Houses perched so crazily close to the edge, many at risk of collapse. Every storm brings fear and danger. Only 12kms away, Santa […]

Living in a van. I’ll talk more about it this week. A great place to start your van experience is France. The roads are huge. There are great places to park up all over the country, often for free. The driving is benign, if you can drive in Britain, you can drive in France. It’s […]

“Oi! Kelv, you missed a week!” “Eh? What? Ah, yes. You’re right. I missed a week.” We missed a week in many ways. The 12 hour flight back to London from Colombo was an out of body experience.  Before take-off all the blinds are dropped, and the cabin remained in near darkness for the whole […]

The Beach. I’ll never be good at beach holidays. I love the sea. I care less for the beach, especially when it’s crazy hot.  Porthleven in May – that’s my kind of place. That said, as the days slip by at our sandy paradise, I admit that I’m beginning to enjoy it. All around us […]