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Our next destination was the Lofoten Islands, where we hoped to be able to see some sea eagles (a.k.a. white-tailed eagles) and enjoy some great scenery and something of the remote island feel that we loved so much in Scotland's northern isles last summer. Our first port of call was the island of … [Read more...]
Getting To Norway - Ferries There are no longer any direct ferries from the UK to Norway. There are three possible options for travelling from the UK to Norway with your own motorhome: UK-France by ferry or tunnel from Kent Newcastle/Hull/Harwich - Holland by ferry Harwich - Esbjerg (DK) by … [Read more...]
If you are anything like us, you will have developed a loyalty to a particular brand of travel guide over the years. In our case, Lonely Planet has been our default choice for several years now – not because the guides are perfect, but because they seem to be better than the others we looked … [Read more...]
We started our journey along the Moray coast at Banff, an attractive, stone-built seaside town. (Due to time constraints, we didn't explore the eastern part of this area - north of Aberdeen or east of Banff ) Venturing west through Portsoy, Cullen and Portknockie and onwards around Spey Bay to … [Read more...]
Reading about other people's motorhome conversions and motorhome journeys is a great way to spend time (much of which should be spent actually working...). One particularly excellent example of this is Stephen Stewart's site, which includes well-illustrated accounts of his motorhome travels in … [Read more...]
Our most recent motorhome trip encompassed large parts of Germany and a little bit of Austria - plus the 'commuting' mileage we had to do through the Netherlands to get to and from Rotterdam, our ferry port of choice (we used P&O's Hull-Rotterdam route as we were coming from the north of … [Read more...]
Leaving Avila at the not-too-early time of 0930, we picked up the N502 and set course for the Sierra de Gredos Regional Park. We took the route across the top of the park on the AV-941 (also called the CL-500 - not sure why Spanish roads often have two names). We then turned south onto the N-110 … [Read more...]
We recently completed a month-long motorhome tour of Spain & Portugal. Now we're back in the real world, I thought I would share with you some of the highlights of our 2,800 mile trip. The trip started with a long journey from the north of England down to Portsmouth. In fact, UK driving to … [Read more...]
