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Update from Brittany It’s a rainy Sunday in Concarneau, Brittany, and we’re having a day off.  Passing showers are apparently left-over from a tropical storm which the USA enjoyed a week or so ago, but it has also definitely cooled … Continue reading →

From South West France – Armagnac country Since we last reported three weeks ago, we have spent a few days in Switzerland, followed by more than two weeks in the south of France.  After d’Hobby’s brakes were fixed in Austria … Continue reading →

Czech Republic to the Austrian Tirol Well, we wanted some summer, and we’ve found it! Temperatures around 30oC each day, with clear sunny skies then, when the humidity has built up enough around the mountains, we cop the thunderstorms with … Continue reading →

Update from Prague, Czech Republic. It’s been two weeks since our last update, and many miles/kilometres under the wheels since then.  1,900 km coming south from Helsinki, and 8,000 km since we left the UK at the end of June. … Continue reading →

We’ve just arrived in Tallinn, Estonia, this afternoon by ferry from Helsinki. It was a 2 hour crossing, very pleasantly spent treating ourselves to a splendid lunch in their top restaurant, with a view of the islands, yachts and shipping … Continue reading →

We’re now in Sweden.  Arrived from Denmark on the 12th via the Orundsen bridge from Copenhagen to Malmo; stopped for a long lunch with Bengt & Kristina Fahlander in Svedala (friends we met in Havelock North) – a very pleasant … Continue reading →

Hi from the high latitudes of Scandinavia (Lapland, Sweden), We left Oslo last Monday after the brakes had been checked out. It was just the pads sticking, and the Fiat workshop fixed that, and we were on the road again … Continue reading →

It is Sunday in Oslo, and it’s our 4th day here today. We’re using it as a day off to catch up with photos, emails etc., and Jan went off to the nearby supermarket to do some grocery shopping but … Continue reading →

Well, we took the plunge yesterday and put a deposit on a motor-home after a test drive and close inspection. It is a 2001 Hobby 650 FSe, 2.8 tdi, lovely condition and drives very nicely. Fixed bed in the rear … Continue reading →

Just a  quick update from Utrecht  (Netherlands). On Friday we caught the ferry from Dover to Calais, then drove on up to Gent in Belgium, arriving mid-afternoon.  It was a really big camp-site, very busy and noisy on Friday and … Continue reading →