Another day another dollar and Goose is not at the wheel So after the night of France Passion, well not in the biblical sense if you read my last blog, we rise early and go to start the motorhome and guess what, the bleeding immobiliser would not let us start it - me thinking OMG and Mike thinking well maybe day 2 could be France Passion in the literal sense, ha ha. Anyway, we tried the other keys and wowee it started so thank goodness for this. The navigator Mike, let’s start calling him Goose as Goose was Maverick’s navigator in Top Gun, started well but let’s be honest he had Sat Nav to help him. So we trundled along the nice french roads through nice villages in the Champagne region and I was loving it ... read more

Lest we forget We had a quiet night after the nightmare the previous day so all is well in the Fairbairn camp. So I have decided I am turning into my parents. When I was young my mum and dad used to take all us kids (5 of us) abroad each year to France and beyond and we used to visit all the cemeteries for the fallen solders and war museums - well anything to do with the war - yes one brother is called Sherman and the other is Robert Lee or Bob as we call him - i.e a bit of a clue there i.e. Sherman Tank and Major Robert Lee Near the campsite there is a British cemetery Seraucourt-le-Grand so we decided to walk up and see it. It was quite a sobering ... read more

So we are now on the downward spiral of the holiday and went to Bremen. The campsite was great and has fantastic facilities and is close by a lake and, you guessed it, no I did not go paddle boarding as it was tooooo cold. However, would you believe it we are not far from a nudist beach and yes you guessed it on Saturday it was full and yes they were swimming - maybe it’s me but what is the attraction of a nudist beach - must be getting old. So Mike was really annoyed with me as I have knocked the fly screen door off its rail at the bottom - so I have asked the motorhome group for advice and they say use brute force to get it back on the rail - ... read more

So everyone, nearly all 40 Carthago owners motorhomes have left Hillerod it seems so its goodbye to Andrew, Joan and now Barrie and Chris who have gone on to Sweden. That means we are on our own with no place to go. But the three couples are all in touch and all I can say is what a fabulous time we have had with all four of them - more Carthago chums adventures to be had in due course. So after a bit of internet searching I thought I had found a great place for us to stop, near a fjord, so really looking forward to doing this and you cannot go to Denmark and not stay near a fjord surely. After a nice journey which once again I navigated although Mr Mike wanted the Sat ... read more

Well day 2 and 3 of being in Europe was firstly in the fantastic site in the Netherlands that I spoke about last time and now we are in Germany. Mind you it appears from the site we were in first we could have walked into Germany which would have been an experience that we could say we walked from the Netherlands to Germany, ha ha it sounds good and do not have to say it was less than a mile. So we follow the Sat Nav which you all know Mike loves and guess what less than 3 miles in and there is a road block and you guessed it the Sat Nav did not pick it up and wanted to take us around in circles. So guess what the trusty map came back with ... read more