Doc on tour, France, Spain, Morroco.

Is Albania in Schengen? It’s supposed to be very beautiful & Motorhome friendly as far as I know?
It isn’t, but it’s not quite that warm in January, the peeps go to Morocco for two reasons, 1, to escape Schengen, 2, for the winter sun cos as per reason 1 they can’t stay in Spain any longer.
Oh the joys of 2016 🤣🤣🤣🤣
 
Is Albania in Schengen? It’s supposed to be very beautiful & Motorhome friendly as far as I know?
No it's outwith shengen but not great in winter months.. I was there in october/November last time and it was cold n wet .

But if I'm returning to Greece next winter I'll most likely have to go that way as the ferry from Italy to Greece is difficult with 4 dogs
 
It isn’t, but it’s not quite that warm in January, the peeps go to Morocco for two reasons, 1, to escape Schengen, 2, for the winter sun cos as per reason 1 they can’t stay in Spain any longer.
Oh the joys of 2016 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Yes that's why I'm here , if it wasn't for the 90 days thing I doubt I'd have ever come.

I was quite happy on my first 2 trips spending 10/11 months round Spain and Portugal.

I only ever do 6 months max nowadays but if we had only even negotiated the same 180 days deal that eu citizens can do in UK it would have been better .

90 days is shit .
 
Yes that's why I'm here , if it wasn't for the 90 days thing I doubt I'd have ever come.

I was quite happy on my first 2 trips spending 10/11 months round Spain and Portugal.

I only ever do 6 months max nowadays but if we had only even negotiated the same 180 days deal that eu citizens can do in UK it would have been better .

90 days is shit .
We didn’t negotiate naff all, we were told what they were giving us and we said “oh ok”
They did the negotiating, I could have done a better job myself, even like for like would be better than what we have now, that’s all I’m saying before I end up down the M69😁

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Yes that's why I'm here , if it wasn't for the 90 days thing I doubt I'd have ever come.

I was quite happy on my first 2 trips spending 10/11 months round Spain and Portugal.

I only ever do 6 months max nowadays but if we had only even negotiated the same 180 days deal that eu citizens can do in UK it would have been better .

90 days is shit .
It may serve you well to follow through with your plan to get the 6 month visa Tam, you might even turn lucky one day and find the love of your life with a EU country passport , or even better maybe they change the rules at some point and return the favour😇
 
It may serve you well to follow through with your plan to get the 6 month visa Tam, you might even turn lucky one day and find the love of your life with a EU country passport , or even better maybe they change the rules at some point and return the favour😇
Not unless he/she looks like a camel or donkey! 😆

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I'm trying to do the right thing.


Paul contacted me because I had said I didn't fully understand what his problem was with me ....so he has told me and because he couldn't post it up here he asked me to do it.

As I said I've read it , he makes a few fair points , it's clear there's been a lot of misunderstandings on both sides , maybe there should have been more discussion perhaps on the phone or via text rather than posts on here which were missed or misinterpreted I don't know, some of the things he's said I wasn't even aware I did or said , other things were a result if feeling cornered, betrayed etc. As I said perhaps timing also played a part, I'd just received the text I got from garry and then Paul announced he was cutting ties etc .. I was stressed ,upset and confused. As I said the whole thing is a big mess.
In my defence I didn't expect Paul to rush/ruin his holiday to deliver the parts to me super quick , I misunderstood when he said he'd see me soon etc , from previous conversations I thought he was going to be heading south faster than he obviously intended too. He misunderstood my comment saying he moved further south quicker 2 years ago as an attack when I didn't intend it to be.

Anyway as I said there's been many misunderstandings ....I can't go through all of them its just going to be confusing as hell. Bottom line is I was always grateful for the help I was given and I did make that clear. I was also grateful for the help collecting the part for me and bringing it over etc ..... I guess we both just didn't think of the timing and logistics of it as I'm already in to my second month and on my return trip back to Spain and he's only heading out so it probably wasn't the best idea to do it this way. But the stress of having no brakes and various other issues clouded that.

Once again I apologise if things came across differently....I've tried to explain why that happens.
Things said and done after the messages last week have obviously been influenced because of that .

It's a mess



But regardless this was Paul's post .



"Tam as I have previously explained to you via WhatsApp my issues with you are how you were expecting me to come straight down approx 1000km from where I was to where you were in Tafraoute in a very short space of time a few days I think you said but no matter what I felt that I was being put under pressure to get to you quickly which when I agreed to bring the stuff & the brake cylinder I had no idea would be the case, so to help you out & relieve the pressure on me to get this part to you quickly I discussed possibly using a courier or postage service at which you seemed very reluctant to do and after checking online I agreed that the Moroccan postal service seemed to be crap, but other couriers here in Morocco could of still been an option but you dismissed that idea which is fair enough, your part, your money so that was fine, I then went looking for Steve Barchetta who I knew was in Asilah at the same time as me and he had discussed with me previously that he was thinking about going the full length of Morocco to Dakhla so I thought happy days Steve might be able to bring this stuff on down southwards to you, and I actually hunted the campsites to find Steve and when I found his van he was out and I waited for nearly an hour until he returned and I asked would he be kind enough to bring this stuff down to you as he was more than likely to be down south a hell of a lot quicker than me, bearing in mind Steve doesn't even know you I felt a bit of nuisance doing this but I was just focused on trying to help you out, but then you questioned why was I not coming straight down south for the weather etc and I explained to you that I actually hate the sun and too hot weather and only go to hot sunny places for my wife who loves the sun and the heat and that I was in no hurry whatsoever to get down to warmer & sunnier parts of Morocco and which point you as good as called me a liar and said I flew off down south last time you were in Morocco like as in your words shit of a shovel, and I thought wait a minute here this is bollocks I'm trying to do this guy a favour among all the other favours I have done for you since knowing you and now I'm having to justify why and how I spend my holidays and your coming off with this crap, I explained to you that in fact I'd went to Kenitra just below Asilah and you then came back and said yes but you were in Sidi Kaouki 13 days or something after I'd left you in Asilah and I thought what the Fiddlesticks is going on here! I'm having to constantly defend myself against all this crap when all I was trying to do was help you out! So I just said Fiddlesticks this I have had enough and I withdrew myself from your thread and wanted to let things settle a bit before I decided what to do next and this bullshit mockery your now calling my stoic philosophy actually teaches us that in difficult and negative situations is to try to detach yourself and your thoughts from it all which is what I did, I've found you too be much too demanding on someone you refer to as just an acquaintance and not really a friend in spite of me helping you out on numerous occasions in all kinds of ways and I actually thought we were friends, you then went on to say stuff like I think I can buy your friendship etc and then drop in another deliberate lie that I had in your words dumped your number plates somewhere in Kenitra when In fact I had WhatsApp you exactly where I had arranged to leave them safely for you even sending you a map with a drop pin of the exact location of the campsite where I had left them for you and informing you that reception spoke perfect English and there was lots of easy parking for your van outside it, there are other things you have said but to be honest I can't even recall it all as your opinions of me have been made quite clear
I see you mentioned about your mental issues well your not alone as I have told you I spent most of youth teenage years and early 20s in and out of institutions and prisons and I was actually a victim of historical institutional abuse and only 3 years back had to testify in a room full of strangers some of the abuse I suffered as a child at the hands of those who were supposed to be protecting and helping us but I turned it all around and through my stoicism and mindfulness I created a new me and went on to establish several very successful businesses which made me very wealthy and very happy but it was a tough road and I bear many many mental scars from it all, and that is the reason I sent you those recordings etc to try to help you, just like I was trying to help you with your vehicle parts etc but unfortunately Tam through maybe no intentional faults of your own you have mistaken kindness for softness which is a fatal error with me
I've wished you all the best and good luck in my WhatsApp messages to you outside the forum, I never brought any of our fall out or cross words into this domain, that was you, as regards Garry, Jackie etc I haven't even met up with them yet and have no idea of what the reasons are behind their decisions I can only account for myself
So I'll say it again here on your thread good luck, all the best, I wish you no ill will but as far as I'm concerned too much has been done & said unfortunately
Paul"




I'm posting it because I feel its fair , not to create another lot of drama .
Like the other thread

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I'm drawing a line 😀
 
It may serve you well to follow through with your plan to get the 6 month visa Tam, you might even turn lucky one day and find the love of your life with a EU country passport , or even better maybe they change the rules at some point and return the favour😇
I've given up on ever finding the love of my life . Whatever I do I'm destined to do it alone. Well apart from the dogs.

I'm in a catch 22 situation these days , vsnlife is hard work but living in a flat with 4 dogs would also be hard work .

But I got myself in to the situation... I just gotta push on somehow
 
Jock ...with respect if you don't want to know then you don't have to read it.

Paul asked me to post it up because he wanted to air his side of it . Which is fair enough.
Jock

if you don’t want to know then simply scroll on by

Have you thought Tam might want to get it off his chest as well and his only way is on here

Seems he has to please others first before himself f.f.s
And it's Northernraider's thread 🤷‍♂️
Fine, but having contributed to what I thought was about a thread supporting a fellow Funster, with the same model of Niesmann+Bischoff as ours, with his desire to explore countries afar. Despite it being "Tam's" thread, it has turned into something absolutely totally different. :(

Previous advice and help on this and Tam's previous thread, has gone unacknowledged, which ties in with the acknowledgement of others, ie, you are still driving about with dodgy brakes.

Sorry, but I can't believe you would do that. 🤷‍♂️

Regards,

Jock. :)

Jock.
 
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I've given up on ever finding the love of my life . Whatever I do I'm destined to do it alone. Well apart from the dogs.

I'm in a catch 22 situation these days , vsnlife is hard work but living in a flat with 4 dogs would also be hard work .

But I got myself in to the situation... I just gotta push on somehow
The love of your life might find you instead, sometimes things come to you without having to look for it, stranger things have happened👍

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I think everyone has expressed their points of view and Tam has been very Honest I think it's fair now to move on with Tams brilliant thread photos and where he is up to in his journey. I hope you get a better night's sleep Tam you were very fair putting Captain Paul's point of view it all got very complicated, but I think no good worrying any more, enjoy the beach you have found and looks forward to more photos.
 
Previous advice and help on this and Tam's previous thread, has gone unacknowledged, which ties in with the acknowledgement of others, ie, you are still driving about with dodgy brakes.
Carefully though and only so he can get to a place to meet up and get his mitts on the part to hopefully fix them.
 
With regards to the brakes they've actually been fine recently, they only ever gave problems on steep or long hill descents ..the same hills I'd get the red light flashing and a loss of power going up. So I kind of get a pre warning , if the van has reduced power going up the hill I now pull in , pull the air hose off the servo , plug the end with my thumb a few times which seems to cause the valve to unstick and then refit hose .. and then I adopt the lower gear and brake off brake on brake off method going down the hill .. I've not had to do it much the last day or two as not been any steep hills.


Can't do anything else at present as I don't have the parts to fix it , and it's unlikely i could get it checked and fixed properly here. I don't want to be at the mercy of some garage here to fix the issue so I have to keep going. In normal conditions the brakes are working as normal. It's still unclear the exact problem but I highly suspect its the vacuum pump or one of the attached hoses causing the issue and not the master cylinder. I was never convinced it was the master cylinder but as many others were of the opinion it was I was prepared to swap it and see. But the presence of the other fault ie the waste gate sticking and both being connected to the same vacuum pump definitely seems more likely so I think changing those first is a better plan and then if the issue with brakes continues I'll get the master cylinder swapped too.

The only vacuum pump I'm likely to get here would be second hand or I'd need to wait for one to be imported . Or pay several times the price for it .

My options are far better in Spain I think ... but I will continue to play it by ear as I go.
 
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That's better... continuing a thread about the problems of travelling in a MH, vehicle, health, toilets, batteries, SIM cards, overcrowding, Anti-social behaviour and of course our main topic of conversation....no, not the B word....the W word...Weather..we all love to chat about the weather....I do... I'm a Weather Nerd.. I've 4 weather apps on my phone...and also make my own predictions...Cheer up everyone who doesn't have to go to work today....or tomorrow....sorry to those that do...but we used to also...and going to work now supports how we live today....Contented...we all should be happy with what we have including you Tam....you are in a very poor country...most of those people have nothing....take stock of what you have and compare it with them..🤔🐕🐕🐕🐕(🐕)
 
Surely (🐪) would be more likely! 😄

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Seems I have 6 apps! I use WeatherPro, and AeroWeather for flying (with others if I need more info).

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