Awaycation Autumn 2025
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Once settled into the apartment and all the boxes we had stored in Molly's garage were carried in! Luckily, in a sort respite from the wind and rain!
The rain returned with thunder and lightning and went on all night. We did get a brief lull so I could take Reggie out for his last walk of the...
October 9th.
The first stop after leaving la Gaviota was the supermarket and petrol station in St Pere Pescador.
After the price in France (and at home!) the €1.339 per litre seemed like a massive saving. It was around 25p a litre cheaper than home. Having the Halifax Clarity app on my phone...
October 6th.
A leisurely breakfast and then reversing out of the garage into the narrow street and we were off
The TomTom was supposed to take us off toll roads towards Leucate Plage where I wanted to park up for lunch. Why?
Twenty years ago Claire and I stayed at an apartment belonging to a...
October 4th. As usual I was up around 7am with Reggie's first constitutional of the day. He tends to have one or two before breakfast and maybe another few afterwards.
I did the cassette as we weren't that far from the motorhome service area. When we came to go another van got on there before...
Not really had the time nor the inclination to update the journal.
October 1st. Booked on 1220 Shuttle to Coquelles. Arrived in good time at Cheriton and found half the check-ins closed with building work.
Went to pet reception and were offered 1116 crossing. Accepted. Bought coffee in...
So now we have a rough idea of the route to take that should avoid Paris and its dreadful inner and outer rings, I have started to check out overnight stops.
Although if I was a real vanlifer I'd only be looking for free aires, I do like Camping-Car Park aires. I have booked one in advance at...
Firstly we had an email from John in France to say "don't arrive too late on Saturday as there's a dinner". Aargh
Okay. Doable.
We then found that Claire's friend in France is away during the week we are going to travel. So the route changed to miss out that dogleg.
So now we are...
It's October after all and it seems despite France being the dream for camping cars, we hope the UK could be, campsites have a massive closure at the end of September.
Those that stay open longer are in partial shutdown. Bars closed. Cafe closed. Indoor pools closed.
So once again it's back...
I know I say it every time, "No plans just follow my nose", but I can't!!! I suppose being laid up for three weeks with a UTI, on antibiotics, three different types over 20 days, my mind turned to places to go, things to do... and of course the Autumn trip to France and Spain.
With the summer...
Now that the Summer holiday is toast I have been rebooting the channel crossings.
As said before the Le Shuttle booking came up saying £2 difference in fare then at checkout miraculously became £36. It seems despite doing it online through the app that there was an administrative charge. Who...
A lot indeed has happened since the last update.
We are only a few days away from our Summer trip to France and it has all come crashing down.
Over a week ago I felt really ill and after an NHS 111 call I went to the surgery. It seemed I had got myself a urinary tract infection.
I was bundled...
Post 70th birthday party we should be back on the road on the Monday and head down to the Franco Spanish border and beyond.
We have six days to get from the party village to Alcossebre.
So as a planner I have been looking on P4N and S4S for places to stop. In the end we have decided on...
The idea was to tour around a bit of Spain and then spend a week in the timeshare in Alcossebre again. Until I can get rid of it, it's a bit of a millstone around my neck. Since I bought it cheap off a friend in 1993 we have tended to use it for "exchange" travel mainly to the US.
Since...
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