One of our first purchases when we arrived in Jalón on Thursday 21st Dec, was the main event for our Christmas dinner. There are several pleasant things about running away from a British Christmas, not the least of which is…
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Sympetrum conundrum
That’s what I call my little December friend in Jalón: Sympetrum conundrum. For a few years now, I’ve seen a Darter at a few points on the river that flows through Jalón. The first time I saw it was on…
Posted in 2017-2018 Winter
Traditional Travel
In our modern world one can clamber onto a crammed cigar-tube of a jet aircraft and swap the cool winter clouds of the UK for the relatively warm sunny Mediterranean skies of the Costa Brava in a little over two…
Posted in 2017-2018 Winter
Farewell Busby
This morning we bade farewell to Busby, our Mercedes Sprinter 313 CDI campervan/bus. Busby was easy to drive and has served us faithfully without missing a beat – he has taken every opportunity to beat my head. 😀 Busby took…
Posted in 2017 New Zealand, 2017 The Antipodes
Quake City
Our Christchurch campsite offers a few suggestions under the heading of, “what on earth shall we do today”. One of the suggestions is to visit “Museum – Quake City”. Well, for our last day in New Zealand, we skipped the…
Posted in 2017 New Zealand, 2017 The Antipodes
Levelling Ramp
It seems that Busby may not have been quite as level as I had imagined, so the camp cat came into its own after all. Here’s the camp cat positioned in preparation for levelling Busby. And here’s the camp cat…
Posted in 2017 New Zealand, 2017 The Antipodes
The Final Furlong
Today would be a conservative 160kms from Hanmer Springs to Christchurch. Apart from a 10-minute drive to hand Busby back to Maui on Monday, that’d be it. We’d spent a relatively sloping night in Busby which leads me to comment…
Posted in 2017 New Zealand, 2017 The Antipodes
The Third Pass
Our Greymouth morning dawned sunny and bright. I’d awoken once or twice during the night and lay there listening the soothing crashing of the Tasman Sea surf on the nearby shore. It soon lulled me back to sleep again. We…
Posted in 2017 New Zealand, 2017 The Antipodes
Coast to Coast
Yes, it may look mad but we’ve done it. We’ve driven across from Akaroa on the east coast to Greymouth on the west coast and we did it through Arthur’s Pass. So, Arthur’s Pass – tick. ‘T was a distance…
Posted in 2017 New Zealand, 2017 The Antipodes
A French Influence?
Decision time. There are three routes across the mountains between the west coast of New Zealand and the central/eastern country. We did the southernmost one of them, the Haast Pass, on our way down to Te Anau and Milford Sound.…
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