Meeting with friend Paul and his wife, Sue, a few days ago had introduced us to the fact that there is a branch of our favourite English food shop, Waitrose, in Lymington. Being only about 4 miles further than Brockenhurst…

Now here’s something that doesn’t happen very often in the UK: all three days of a Bank Holiday weekend being sunny. At least the London Breeding Club will have had about the best introduction possible to life in a motorhome.…

Today had gone quite well. It started better than expected by being sunnier than had originally been forecast. There was just the odd cloud dimming life momentarily. Having been out on a variety of distractions all day, life then collapsed…

The folks in the dragonfly community are generally a friendly bunch. One of my contacts on UK Dragonflies, Paul, lives in this area and, since we’d met on a Club-tailed Dragonfly hunt along the River Thames a couple of years…

We stretched our legs again with a ride into Brockenhurst for a few necessary chores, then cycled back the long way staying on the roads. Francine’s bike’s front forks have decided to play up – the suspension keeps bottoming even…

In almost 25 years of caravanning, we have never travelled with a TV, even though Guillaume is fully equipped for TV, complete with built-in aerial. Perhaps this is because we haven’t often camped out of season, when the evenings are…

We didn’t bother with our normal roof load of bicycles on our recent trip to the English Lake District. There were two main reasons for this decision. Firstly, the Lake District looks too darned hilly. Secondly, we expected some rain…

Normally when on a trip with Guillaume, our first breakfast is a good old fry up of eggs, bacon (smoked, of course), mushrooms and toast. Somehow, though, with the rain still pattering on Guillaume’s roof, this morning just didn’t seem…

On a previous trip to the New Forest in 2010 (?), we bought Guillaume his first porch awning.  As the man tasked with their erection, I disagree with awnings on caravans, period. For me, one of the main advantages of…