Month: <span>July 2018</span>
Month: July 2018

Have van, can travel

Today’s earworm is “A walk in the Black Forest”.  Why? Well, I shall leave that to the reader’s imagination. In the meantime, Heidi Hymer is …

We have a Hymer

For those who have requested pictures

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The new-to-us Hymer came home on Friday last, after the long trip home from Pierrelaye on the northern outskirts of Paris.  Mr Snail has since been spending time looking for snags and fixing them. We began to pack but the heat has defeated us.

Yesterday we went to buy gas bottles. 

We think that we may go off  for one or two nights very soon, perhaps just up the road to Adriers, where we have discovered a little known Aire de Campingcar. If we forget to pack anything it’s only ten minutes home to come and pick whatever up.

We have a new van mascot:

Dusty

As for the van… tentatively named Heidi Hymer. Is that far too camp?

A new chapter begins

Yesterday we rose at 5am and were away (in the car) before 6 o’clock and on our way to Paris, or rather, to the north-west …