Jane & Rog’s Eastwards Coddiwomple

[Stonemags76]

Loved it! Thank you so much for going to the trouble!

 

[Jo662]

Thank you,as always,for sharing your travels . You go to so many unusual places I will perhaps never see.

 

[Jane NotRog]

Jo662 I would recommend going to the Baltics and Poland. Everywhere was pretty easy and safe (except on the wallet for Denmark ) the level of English spoken in nearly all of them is great - much better than France or Spain. Better than in the UK in some cases! The food and shopping is good and not challenging - if you eat pigs that is . The roads are more or less very good (e.g. generally better than Belgian roads ) and much less busy than the UK or france.

I think the only really challenging this we did this time was the mileage. All the travel was easier than Albania or Morocco.

 

[PxJ]

Another great trip for us all to enjoy, as I’ve said before well written with some fantastic pictures, information & lots of do’s & don’ts & you always give us the good, the not so good & the awful bits in my opinion an honest review as seen through your eyes & experience as being their on the spot!!
Look forward to your next trip & a big thanks for all the hard work & time it takes to create an interesting blog.

 

[Jane NotRog]

Really enjoyed reading this thread as much as your others … thank you as I know it is time consuming. I’m off to try to find your blog to download for future reference now …

Thanks - the blog will also have all our shorter trips so might be worth it.

 

[John-Laika]

Thank you both, like others really enjoyed reading your interesting and well written journey with some great pictures.
It takes effort and it was appreciated.

 

[paddymcc]

Another thank you from me. Informative and entertaining in equal measure.

 

[miconone]

Thank you for the effort and good humour you’ve put in to this thread. It’ll be a great resource for followers in your footsteps.

 

[KASPAR]

When's your next jaunt? Can't wait

 

[Jane NotRog]

When's your next jaunt? Can't wait

Probably just to Lancashire to see Rog’s Mum - will be on the blog but not on here. We’ve just finished cleaning the van 2 days later so it won’t be getting dirty any time soon!

 

[Jane NotRog]

Just in case anyone wants to follow our next trip it’s here - https://www.motorhomefun.co.uk/forum/threads/jane-rog-plod-to-portugal.310272/#post-6321803

 

[helzie2020]

Put an Airta

Sometimes you have bad days. This one didn’t start well as we had to back track 75km to Rööm restaurant in Pärnu, where Rog left his bag on Saturday.

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Then we drove north-east to visit the Museum of Soviet Vehicles. This promised to be a fascinating collection of Soviet-era tanks and things, but turned out to be a bit of a junkyard where old vehicles go to rot.

No signs at all most of the time, and what there were weren’t translated. I left with the feeling that a lot of interesting history was just being left out in the rain and snow to die, without being understood, which was sad.

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Flynn keen to explore the amphibious vehicle​

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I have no clue​

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Cute tractor, would like to take home with me​

We’d thought we might wild camp somewhere from PFN but it didn’t go well. Rog walked Flynn briefly for a wee, while I cleaned a bit. On his return, Flynn was on his lead and we stood outside by the slider discussing whether to stay. Suddenly a small white fluffy dog appeared around the corner of front of the van and had a go at Flynn. Flynn obviously felt threatened, retaliated and there was quite a set to. Rog pulled Flynn off, but the other dog was either loose or Flynn caused it to become so (point of debate), so it wasn’t easy to stop things. Rog tried to reassure the other dog after the incident, and it growled at him too. Rog and the other dog’s owner had a tense and sometimes heated discussion, (I was told to keep out of it) and to cut a long story short, we have ended up paying for the vet’s bill of €90.

I’m not really happy, as I don’t think Flynn was to blame (just bigger, so won the argument) and I have insisted that Rog points out in his payment acceptance email that we don’t accept responsibility and are only paying as we are visitors to their country and want to behave like good British citizens.

I was left shaking and quite sick with adrenaline, so rather than any sort of wild camp we headed to the security of a campsite, Mereoja Camping, back on the Baltic.

It was a very manicured site with good facilities, and definitely helped me to relax.

I cooked us a tomato and barley risotto with tahini and chilli dressing, pickled onions and halloumi. Probably I’d have chosen to go out for a pizza, but that wasn’t possible at this site, and it was what we had in. And yummy, though I say so myself.

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Rog would like to point out that the halloumi is massively out of date (it was rescued from our fridge as we left in June, and past its date then) so if you don’t hear from us, it’s probably food poisoning.

Coddiwompling score - Yeah, but, no but.

If you have an Apple device, you could put an Airtag on his bag and set Find My to notify him when left behind. A few minutes after we leave our van, I get notifications on my iPhone and Watch that I’ve left behind my house keys and iPad. There are similar set ups for non-Apple users.

 

[Rog NotJane]

If you have an Apple device, you could put an Airtag on his bag and set Find My to notify him when left behind. A few minutes after we leave our van, I get notifications on my iPhone and Watch that I’ve left behind my house keys and iPad. There are similar set ups for non-Apple users.

The sad truth is that I have an AirTag on nearly everything but I still manage to leave things behind. So far this new trip it has not happened but there is a worrying possibility that the new van seems to lock itself after a few minutes and I might leave the keys inside.

Luckily my Rohan shorts have a little hook to the keys are tied to me - a bit like the woollen string your mum used to put up your coat sleeves and tie to your mittens.

 

[G-RMPS]

We share a common ailment. Keymentia.