I left Minty in Basel for a week. Not because she’d been bad. And because she hadn’t been bad she got to stay at the lovely Camping Le Petit Port at Huningue, just the French side of Basel. Surrounded by trees, Polly and Minty had a near constant chorus of bird song. From there a […]
France
Loaded down with fine wine!
Alsace. After Ribeauville and Riquewhir it would be hard to believe that there could be more prettiness, but then comes Colmar. Near Germany. Near Switzerland. With 67,000 inhabitants it’s a big town, in fact the retail area is huge, yet it retains a small town feel. It’s Gothic. It’s medieval. It’s heaving with tourists, and […]
Take me to your tunnel.
It’s not quite a year since we packed up, rented the house and set off. 18,000 miles and 20 countries later we made it back to Cornwall for a brief stay. Now we’ve hit the road again. Buzzing around England (and Wales) put 1200 miles on the clock before we left home shores. I consider […]
Cathedrals, pilgrims and miles, many miles.
Le Puy en Velay. Pilgrimage. To me it sounds like something from a different age. Yet here in Le Puy en Velay there’s a blessing every morning for those setting off on the 1000 mile walk to Santiago de Compostello. If it’s mostly off road I truly fancy the idea of the walk, although it […]
A van in Provence.
Verdon Gorge. Every choice has its consequences. On Saturday morning if we’d continued as planned to Digne I’m sure it would have been good. As it was we took a smaller road towards Moustiers and towards deep landscape joy. The actual Verdon Gorge needs walking. Nonetheless our road, the D952, was utterly spectacular. The gorge […]
Italy, France, cars, mountains, the sea. VanLife rocks.
Night time. We think we’re normal people. We have a house that we love in a town where I always wanted to live. What possesses us. What makes us want to sleep in a van? Especially in the middle of nowhere, with the temperature outside plummeting, soon to be followed by the temperature inside. I […]