The first skill someone MUST have in order to live a travelling life is the ability to drive the vehicle you’ve chosen. Guess what I can’t do? Go on, guess. My licence allows me up…
Posts tagged Driving in France
44. A tale of two pumps
Before we bought our American RV, Georgie, we had the same romantic notions of life on the open road that I think most people have: it was all about the adventure. We dreamed about the…
40. Broken
The great John Lennon wrote ‘life is what happens to you when you’re busy making other plans’. Well, no shit, John. You think I’m being a bit harsh? Allow me to explain. The last time you heard…
39. There was un joli postman …
We live in a culture that values technology over art, prefers practicality to dreams, and rewards concrete achievements over creative imaginings. But where would we be without the dreamers? The men and women who peer…
38. Another day, another car park
There are patterns in any life that have a predictability to them, a sense of normal consequence, an inevitability. Take, for example, the look on people’s faces when I tell them that, for a significant…
14. Mugged by the Mistral
After leaving Mini Hollywood (see previous blog), we head off towards our next destinations – Barcelona and Figueres, mainly because I want to do some arty stuff, and see lots of Gaudi and Dali. About…
3. The water shortage
Steve wanted me to call this post ‘When my waters broke’, and you’ll see why: it’s another tale of well-intentioned incompetence, I’m afraid. Apparently, losing one’s RV on the first day of travelling (see previous…
2. Don’t be careful what you wish for: be afraid, be VERY afraid!
Please, if you’re thinking of buying a campervan, RV, or motorhome, then learn from our mistakes first. Because I know it doesn’t sound possible, even for us, but on day one of our wonderful adventure………..