Blogs from United Kingdom, Europe - page 2487

Après avoir entendu dire qu'on peut voir des phoques depuis la grande plage de Tayport, nous voilà partis, Marine, son frère Marco, Lise, Stéphane et moi pour les voir de plus près!! Nous traversons d'abord la grande forêt de Tentsmuire puis arrivons enfin sur une immense plage de sable fin où nous pouvons tremper les pieds dans la mer, sous le soleil. Et c'est ensuite que nous appercevons les phoques que l'on était venu chercher! Ce n'est pas tous les jours que l'on peut pique-niquer en face de phoques, donc on en profite! :) Comme ils sont sur un banc de sable et que la mer monte ils sont obligés de partir, on les retrouve donc un peu plus loin mais de plus près cette fois et en plus grand nombre. Comme ils sont notre ... read more

Headed to Weymouth for the weekend for Stella's birthday. Steve picked me up from work at about 3 pm Friday, drove in the horrendous traffic to get Sandra from Fords at Dunton. Following this had the 'Sat Nav' to work out the best route to get to Weymouth. Seemed to take ages and stopped once for a fab hot chocolate, playing silly games best of which was ‘What animal am I?’ Arrived at our B & B on the seafront at about 9 pm. Stella and Wayne had arrived about an hour before us. Settled in our rooms and then headed out for some food, decided to get a cab to a good Indian in town. Lovely food and good conversation, even had some hubbly bubbly before grabbing a cab back. Realised that I had ... read more

Hey Sarah (she is our biggest reader... or maybe our only one) and other Camp K & K subscribers , So this might seem a little random, seen everyone knows that we are back in the great land of Australia for a little while. The weather in grand old Bathurst today is rainy and cold and I have been going though my notes of our might pig van adventures of the U.K and I haven’t written these up yet so I thought I would. So campervaning or booting as it is called in the U.K was how we entertained ourselves for the last 2 weeks of our time in the mother land. First lesson learnt when hiring a van from wicked camper enquire what is on the van first. It is extremely hard to blend ... read more

Rough RouteJames ParkinJust a quick note: All of my kit and paperwork has been finalised (THIS IS COSTING A FORTUNE!). Only 10 days left until i travel 7740 miles away from home (12500km!!), thats a LONG way! My feelings at this stage are excitement mixed with a lot of nerves, 7800 miles with over 20kg of expensive luggage seems a challenging task.... read more

We finally arrived in Weymouth in the evening after spending soooo long stuck going nowhere on the M25! We checked into the BnB and sorted our stuff out. Steve, Sandra and Jan arrived after us and we all headed to town for curry for dinner. We ate lots and lots of yummy curry, it was fairly late and everyone was exhausted from the long journey so instead of the planned pub crawl we went back to the BnB to bed! We woke and had cooked brekkie at 9am (oh my god I’m a veggie, what do I eat… lol). We then went for a walk along the sea front (getting sand blasted due to the high wind levels). We looked for a fridge magnet for Jan and eventually found one of the right level of ... read more