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Published: May 5th 2013

Making an incredibly early start was easy today, having camped in Oliver who was very pleased to see us we didn’t have the best nights rest, some slight alterations to the back seat to allow us to put the front ones down would have made all the difference. On the road by eight we drove through sleepy village after sleepy village, it was easy to see we were in France the houses tending to be brow... Read Full Entry

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Jo Roberts

traveltalesofawoollymammoth

'We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us' A truly multi-national mammoth that travels the world visiting places of interest, making new friends and causing mischief wherever he can. With my carer Jo (bless her!) I have scaled castle walls, walked in the footsteps of Roman Emperors and Maharajah's, climbed mountains, contemplated caverns, caves and canyons and attempted the Le Mans 24 hour race on a skateboard! Whether it be climbing a Minaret in Mostar, Paddling in the Arabian Sea, Scaling mountains in Kotor, Feeding chickens in France or Catching trains in India, not... full info

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5th May 2013

Home and Away
Bob Carlsen

You haven't mentioned much about the difference between caravaning and camping...
but did see that you had to set up camp in the rain. When we first moved to Europe, we bought a tent and went camping in the Netherlands. It was raining the day we had to pack up the tent, and that was such a miserable experience that, given the probability of rain in Northern Europe, we never went camping in Europe again. We did camp in Minnesota years later, and again it rained. I hope the weather cooperates for you!

6th May 2013

traveltalesofawoollymammoth
Jo Roberts

Weather and tenting
The weather is improving daily as we go further south, although the nights are still bitter - more clothes in bed and out! We have only had one real problem with the rain where we started to pitch, it was pouring and we found rock under the first cm of grass, end result we shoved everything back in Oliver and drove very quickly to another site. We are missing the comforts of Georgie but we do get up better in the morning! We will try to add more on the differences for us in the future blogs.

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