Glad to see the weather is cooperating... it wasn't for JenGog as they passed through. At least they made it to Croatia with better weather although at this time of year it can still be unsettled. I'm looking forward to the rest of your blogs and the memories they stir from the time we lived in Brussels...many trips to the area you passed through, although I can't remember whether we did 5 countries in one day...so you have a record as far as I'm concerned!
You could always borrow him! We are having a great time but we have to keep an eye on him!!!! Glad your enjoying his travels, we can always send him to you guys so he has someome else to annoy!
Motorhomers will always rule the roads! We truely loved living in Georgie but with costs and access to places she wasn't able to do what we needed at this point in our travels, we are all so sad and will continue to view our travels with the motorhomers access, sites etc and report back. Hope you keep on following.
Sorry about the set back... ...but glad you chose to go back home. Being ill in a foreign country is no fun. Maybe the winds will have gone by then. Look after yourselves.
Booze Busses When you make it to Australia (Oz), you need to watch out for these. Unlike your experience, they are full of policemen who ask you to count to ten while holding an alcohol monitor near your mouth. Three wines will lose you your licence!
The downside of Motorhome travel Sylvia and I spent the month of August last year travelling around the UK in a motorhome we rented. It was a bit smaller than yours in length but just as wide. Some of the roads were downright scary they were so narrow - especially when another vehicle was coming the other way. Down near Rye I nearly got into a brawl with a french lorry driver who refused to move over so we could get passed each other. I couldn't move as I was jammed against a brick wall but he had all of the footpath on his side he could move on to. After he threw his arms in the air a few times and swore at me, I gave him a mouthful of french telling him to get up on to the f..n footpath and stop blocking the traffic. He was so startled that he did it straightaway without comment! Finding parking places can be a problem too and, though most of the van parks are comfortable, they are often so far away from town that it is difficult to do the tourist bit. We usually ended up paying for a taxi or getting a bus but it was an added expense. I was going to refer you to "The Greyhaired Nomads" blog but I see you already follow them. Hope you enjoy the rest of your trip. John
Drivers! So glad your enjoying our travels, Woolly gets very excited when we get comments, bless him. Having read your message yesterday and then lost all internet (a travelling hazard), we seem to have spent today trying to drive into the hedgerow to let traffic past us with no acknowledgment of any kind, very annoying and difficult given our size. We are looking forward to our next part of the trip now with only 4 sleeps for Woolly until we arrive in France, we love the fact that everyday is different, sometimes a challange but different. Are you planning any more Motorhome trips?
Thanks for the memories G'day, Jo and Ian (and Woolly). Just caught up with this series of blogs and they bring back lots of memories. Sylvia and I travelled by bus from Aleppo to Istanbul via the Mediterranean coast back in 1999 and loved the whole trip (though some of the roads were a bit scary!). We would get on a bus in the late morning and get off at the first stop after 3pm - unless somewhere else took our fancy first. One of our stops was Kizkalesi and we were blown away at how beautiful it was. We were there outside the normal tourist period so the place was almost completely deserted. We stayed in a luxury hotel in the middle of town, right on the beach, for US25 including dinner and breakfast. Wonderful. Sadly this was in the days before TBlog so it went unrecorded. You can be sure I will be following your travels in the future. John.
Love Woolly We travel with a mascot and he loves exploring the world. Never good to leave them alone in the room. Enjoyed your impressions of Turkey and looking forward to future blogs.
Never leave a Mammoth on their own! Glad your enjoying Woolly and his travels, we had a great time in Turkey and we are finding it pretty cold on our pit stop tour of the UK. Your weather looks far better than ours, although I don't know if having horses in the house is better or worse than a Mammoth!
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Glad to see the weather is cooperating...
it wasn't for JenGog as they passed through. At least they made it to Croatia with better weather although at this time of year it can still be unsettled. I'm looking forward to the rest of your blogs and the memories they stir from the time we lived in Brussels...many trips to the area you passed through, although I can't remember whether we did 5 countries in one day...so you have a record as far as I'm concerned!