Crossing the border from Poland to Lithuania we were hoping for one thing – better roads. You wouldn’t believe it but the change was instant. The drivers on the other hand are complete nut cases! We drove into Kaunas, on old medieval city and were beginning to see some clear Soviet influences. We found our […]
Whizzing through Holland and Germany
With a race against the seasons (beating a Russian winter), we aimed to drive rather hastily through Europe. A bit of a shame as I feel we may have been able to see more had time permitted. However, driving through towns where no one speaks English, or those that do marvel at what we are […]
The surprising beauty of Poland
OK. Confession time. Having lived in England for six years and only one visit to Poland, the city of Krakow, I believe I have had a fairly distorted view of this country. I know I am stereotyping, but I had images of men in track suits with bumbags, ladies with severe hair and make up, […]
Getting historical with Christophe
You can’t beat having a local tour guide. Christophe was exceptional. Before we met up with Christophe we had to rely on the very unhelpful lady at the Tourist Information in Ypres, and some British war enthusiasts. I’m not sure whether these Brits gave us poor directions or we were too stupid to follow them. […]
We finally reached the continent!
So we finally got on a ferry! It feels like such a leap of faith, out into the big wide world. I felt like a child on their first day of school – full of excitement yet still a little scared to let go of mum’s hand. Our arrival in France was rather unexciting, I […]
For the love of Land Rovers
So this is something that Hayden has known about forever, but I’d managed to convince him not to get too excited as ‘we’ll be well gone by then’. Not so much. It is Land Rover heaven. Every type of Land Rover vehicle you can imagine (and a couple of jeeps) come to Billing. With the […]
Out of the campsite and onto the beach!
Today was momentous! Set as ‘move out day’ from the campsite which has been our home for the last month, I was rather anxious as to how all our belongings would actually fit into Maggie (not to mention how she would manage to drive). Nevertheless, with all our worldly possessions set on the ground around […]
The Grand Plan
Many people have asked us ‘what’s your route?’ Now this has changed a few times. There was a time when we planned to drive through Europe into Turkey, and then into Iran and then somehow ship to India and drive through Myanmar into Thailand and then down into South East Asia, shipping to Australia and […]