As predicted by many we had a problem with Bettie however easily fixed and she is good as new and raring to go. Just thought people would have a giggle at the photo's and what happened. Debbie had gone into town to pick up some shopping with her parents and was coming back alone with the shopping when the accelerator pedal snapped off in the middle of the town bridge. Fortunately Debbie had enough momentum to roll down the bridge and turn off into a side road where she could stop safely. Now in Deb's words... the unfortunate thing was that [View Full Entry]

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Well we have been in France for just a week now. Finally caught up with sleep and raring to go. Next stop is Vannes to see Cousin Peter then a week meandering down the west coast to spend a couple of weeks in the pyrennes to do some hard core biking.. Not sure I'll be able to keep up with the machine that is debbie but I'll give it a go! Photo's when we have something interesting to photograph as so far we have just slept and relaxed to get us in holiday mode. L8r Sam [View Full Entry]

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Europe here we come Sam and Debbie are finally on the road and we are First Trip Well Betty has made her first trip of many. A relatively sedate 5 hours from North London to Newton Abbot to stay with my Auntie Lissie. The last few weeks has been absolutely mental. We have been running around organising things and trying to get the load on Bettie down to something reasonable. As it is there is not a space left in her. But sadly we forgot the booze! However I'm sure we will be able to find some decent plonk in [View Full Entry]

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Well Betty is shaping up. We have spent the last few days working out how to get various things working on her. It took us ages to work out the electric fridge works but we finally got it down to 1 degrees so hopefully we will have some cold milk in the camp sites!. Believe it or not Betty is so old that she didn't even have a cigarette lighter so we had one fitted which hopefully will power the GPS so we can find our way around. Today I brought a old bike to go on the back. It's a [View Full Entry]

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Well after becoming jobless a week ago we are now finally homeless as well!.. This is where the adventure starts. It has been one of the weirdest things I've done give up a predictable routine for a completely un-predictable one. We are now at the mercy of the good will of others. Thankfully my in-laws Mick and Dena are the first (hopefully) of many to be imposed upon :-). We are in north london for two weeks now before heading off to Roscoff. We are booked on the 15:00 ferry out of Plymouth on May 31st. We are then spending two [View Full Entry]

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The first thing we had to do was buy a Van.. Her name is Betty (Debs choice). Here are some pictures of her! [View Full Entry]

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