For most British travellers, the beautiful Black Forest in Germany conjures up images of cherry cakes, cuckoo clocks and charming spa towns. When I mentioned that I was planning a trip, there was a deluge of jokes from friends about men in lederhosen and women wearing strange ‘cherry’ […]
I’m in Heidelberg where I’m surprised to find myself watching giant river barges carrying industrial cargo as I’m supping a glass of German wine at my camp site. I’m mesmerised by the endless stream of huge boats travelling down the River Neckar. These super-long barges carry freight containers […]
Breaking down in the motor home on a lonely country lane with diesel streaming onto the road was not the best start to my holiday in rural Wales. We were miles from the nearest garage, it was a Sunday morning and everything in Cardigan Bay was shut. Worse still, […]
The English Lake District is renowned for its wild walks but my trip to Hardknott Roman Fort proved to be wilder than I’d anticipated. Spring is one of my favourite times of year in the Lakes but it’s also when you can experience four seasons of weather in 24 hours. Overnight […]
Have you ever hatched a holiday plan that sounded fantastic but turned out to be a really terrible idea? Well, our holiday trip to Brussels in the camper van was one of those moments. Holiday craziness took over from rational thinking. I’d read that Brussels was a spectacularly unfriendly place for motor homes but still thought we could find […]
The West Frisian Islands are Holland’s wildest and most remote travel destination. They are what you might call ‘the back of beyond’. You can’t get much further north than this archipelago of islands which form a chain off the tip of Holland in the Wadden Sea. The islands are on UNESCO’s World Heritage Sites […]
This is my favourite season for wildlife because it’s the time of year when migrating birds head back to the British Isles. It also marks the return of the fabulous Osprey from Africa. This thrilling white bird of prey is one of my favourite summer visitors. Not only is it […]
I love travelling by ferry but that wasn’t always the case. For a long time I wasn’t comfortable with boats as a means of travel. It started years ago when I braved the roughest ever Easter ferry trip across the North Sea from Harwich to Holland. I was one of the few passengers […]
“Don’t miss Stockholm – it’s Europe’s most beautiful city,” a group of Dutch tourists gushed when we were travelling around Scandinavia on a recent tour. Although we were six hours drive away, we decided to blast it up north in the camper van. How could we miss a city […]
Guest post by Tony van Diesel This was going to be the big test. Two weeks off piste in northern Spain with our new Vantage Sol camper van. Would our little panel van conversion turn out to have been the right choice? Would we miss the spacious old Hymer? Should […]
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