Alcoceber or Bust! Autumn Awaycation 2024
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What a night. Not too bad but it rained a few times. Not the biblical downpour that Noah anticipated and BBC Weather said would happen, but still enough to deter even the most ardent Peter Stormer from spending too long out in it.
Today's route as chosen by TomTom was terrible. The N104/A104 is...
With the ferry at 0945 we decided that with 14 miles to drive to Dover, we would get up at 0645.
My planned leaving time was 0745. We eventually packed the last stuff in the moho and set off at 0743!
It was pretty easy going and the rat trap maze through the works was navigable. At French...
Our dog Reggie is 14yo and we have had him since November 2014. He was a rescue we got from the Dog's Trust at Canterbury. He was known to have some behavioural problems that needed managing. And to be honest, still need managing.
When we got him he was on dry food and although he ate it it...
We haven't left yet but already I have been looking at the return journey. I simply let the TomTom planner choose a non toll route between Alcoceber and P&O Calais.
The shortest route of course took us over the Pyrenees and the Somport Tunnel. Except of course. The road on the French side...
So far I have spent ages and ages (or so it seems) trying to find a route that we haven't done before to get to Spain via France. The N7/A77/A75 non toll is maybe different to anything we have done before.
Although I have a satnav, I do like paper map books and I do like to make notes in a...
Today I have had to renew the CO sensor. Molly was new in June 2019 and I suppose that's when this and the smoke alarm where fitted.
Although the CO one has a sticker on the side, no one filled in the installation date. It's supposed to have a ten year life. It was peeping to say the battery...
The tale of the root canal that began in August is now over. Praise be to the deity or whatever space books you believe in!
So the trip is back on for the booked dates and no problems are envisaged.
A week today and we will be at Dover hoping to be aboard the 0945 Liberte to Calais...
When we have combined a motorhome and timeshare (see first journal entry) we usually take the apartment time as R&R time. Rather than travel about as we would had we done a fly-drive we tend to chill locally and simply walk everywhere.
Recently I saw on an FB travellers in Spain page that it...
After several weeks of visits to the dentist to get rid of an abscess and start a bit of root canal treatment we are now less than two weeks away from departure time! It's not over yet. Claire has another bout of the dentists art on Friday to dig about in the root of the one tooth. If that's...
I booked with P&O (boo hiss!) on the 1005 out and 1550 back 16 days later.
Then a fortnight ago I received an email. Due to timetable changes the outward ferry is now 0945.
Living as we do only 14 miles from Dover it's not a great problem.
Today, another email. The return crossing has moved...
Due to constraints and obligations, despite being retired (!), we only have 16 days to get there, spend a week and then come back. That's 16 days in total.
Ferry or Tunnel? Loads of discussions on this on Motorhome Fun and countless FB travel groups. We used to be Shuttle people. My wife's...
Way back in 1994 I bought into the idea that Timeshare wasn't too bad an idea. I went to a few presentations in the UK and came away thinking that if I had had £1500 to spare I might have bought one. It seemed Tenerife was the hot ticket...
Zoom a few years later to 1997. A friend of a friend...
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