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Lockdown in Portugal
We wanted somewhere quiet for a few days before heading to Lisbon on just our 2nd motorhome adventure. I found Camping Serro da Bica in ACSI app around 20k south of Ourique so easy drive from Alvor where we had been for a few days. So, we arrived 13th March for 4 days but very quickly the covid Pandemic really kicked in…
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Easter in Lockdown
Easter came and went in a flurry of rabbits, pheasants, pigeons and bucket loads of sunshine. What should have been our busiest weekend of the season turned out just to be like any other day at the moment, no sign of the Easter Bunny either, he must’ve seen the sign on the locked gates and thought we’d all gone home. This…
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New Zealand Emergency ~ What Emergency?
This trip was for us the proverbial 'holiday of a lifetime'. We had thought of and discussed the idea of a New Zealand visit for many years and knew it was only possible to accomplish once we retired and had saved appropriately. We knew friends and neighbours had visited and they all had recommended we go. As with any…
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Rugged beauty
Costa Teguise in Lanzarote, Canary Isles is a great sunshine escape year round. There are numerous walks where you can appreciate the natural and widespread volcanic landscape. This black and white photograph taken in December 2018 shows an amazing overnight location for parking the motorhome and then enjoying a brisk walk…
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Adventures in PeggySzu
https://www.margomia.co.uk Hope you enjoy our adventures in our Motorhome PeggySzu to the Arctic Circle in Norway last June and Scotland 500 in September. If you click on the three black lines on the title page you can choose any day to read about!
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Wish I was there!
Not being able to go out in the caravan like many others at this time and with a bit of time on my hands I thought if I could put my caravan anywhere what would be the view from my window! Here are 4 places in the UK that I like the views! Elgol on Skye, The Lake District, Sunset nr Bradford Skye and The Old Man of Srorr…
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Swiftly Stunning
Swiftly Stunning! Swiftly Stunning 16″ x 12″ Oil on Canvas It was a summers weekend stay, with a last minute booking made. From the photo’s I had taken, this painting is the second in this topic of ‘Caravan Art’. For those of you that have stumbled across this blog, then, as a fine artist painting pets, I have turned my…
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Camping in my garden
Some pictures of us using the Motorhome at home, we do this most winters not only now with the Virus problems . It is much more economical to heat than the house , we use the house facilities cooking etc but have our meals in the van . ITS GREAT. Moderator Comment - I have edited your photos so they are now the right way…
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Lockdown in Spain
Oh joy oh rapture in the sun, We're now on lockdown, oh what fun, No restaurants, bars or going out, Stay at home, don't sit and pout, Try to take it on the chin, Pour yourself a glass of gin, Or get yourself some beer or wine, Three big glasses, you'll be fine, A visit to some friends today, Remember, stay six feet away,…
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Nine Week Caravan Honeymoon
I'm Fiona Driver, from Orkney. My husband Trevor Hunter is from Shetland. We got married on 17-7-17. No big deal – except we'd waited 20 years to finally get married! We are both musicians, and we played ourselves down the aisle in Stroud, in the Cotswolds, with a fiddle duet I wrote for the occasion..... It was 22 years…