Author Archives: Gwyn

Narbonne was nice, but the beer at the hotel was awesome. Jac and Dylan played on Toy Story 3 xbox while me and Kate gulped grande bierres. We dipped in the pool before heading oot roond toon. The meal we had was shite and I refused to pay for mine. I’d ordered calamari salad and [...]

We finally got to the south coast Mediterranean sea yesterday mid day. We weren’t sure where we were stopping, so we just headed to a campsite that looked nice. It took us to Vias which is like Filey if it was in Vegas. We stopped at the beach for a couple of hours then headed [...]

Stopped for three nights in the Gorge du Tarn in a little village called La Rozier. It was absolutely beautiful. Winding down a TomTom special small road from 1121m high into the valley had Jac declaring he wanted to cry as it was the most awesomist campsite ever. This was 6 miles from the actual [...]

Well, when my phone had “no service” when on the ferry, I had to seriously consider if this was a mission critical failure. Luckily, I had downloaded tomtom western europe yesterday, so I had all the maps already on my phone, but if I couldn’t do my blog and pick up my email, was the [...]

Well, we got to Hull at least…

Pictures speak a thousand words….

yes, err… planning. About that… Well, we’ve been pretty loose about it. We’ve booked BOTH ferries this time (we only booked the first one last time, which turned out well actually, because we ended up as foot passengers. *ahem*…) But we’ve found a cracking website www.campingfrance.com that seems to have all the campsites in the [...]

Hey ho! It’s the morning of our trip, and I’m feeling… well, I’m feeling pretty good about it! Pretty excited actually, and pretty confident that everything will be ok this time. The same time last year, I was completely papping myself. We’d not done anything like this before as a family or as individuals, with [...]

If this works, I can update my blog from my iPhone

Ok then, This Friday (13th… i know…), we’re off to Hull. HULL!?!? Your mother cooks socks in Hull!?! I know, but we’re catching the ferry to Zeebrugge. Then on the 3rd September, we’re catching the ferry from Bilbao to Portsmouth. Umm… that’s it. That’s all we’ve planned.