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Read more: Brittany
This morning we headed to the ferry terminal to catch the ferry to France. A few hours later we arrived in St.Malo.It had been our intention to park up and look around, but being a lovely sunny Sunday afternoon, all carparks were full, so we rerouted to Mont Saint-Michel.After parking…
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Read more: Channel Islands Part 2 – Jersey
We arrived on Jersey before lunchtime which gave us plenty of time to do some sightseeing.We headed east, passing La Rocque Harbour and an incredible number of rocks in the water and many Napoleonic towers. We parked up and walked along the shore from La Rocque Tower to Le Hurel…
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Read more: Channel Islands Part 1 – Guernsey
Day 1 on Guernsey was a day to visit a couple of bays to get in the water. Guernsey does a charity thing in July “30 bays in 30 days” each year, we swam at Moulin Huet Bay (#20) and Saints Bay (#22). The roads down to the bays we…
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Read more: South East England
We drove the long and scenic way to Canterbury today.Along the way we stopped at a DHL office to send a box of goodies (a.k.a. wool) home; a roadside cafe that has been operating since 1936 and passed by many dozen traditional “Oast Houses”. Kevin was up early this morning…
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Read more: Catching up with friends
Between leaving Wales and leaving England, we have spent some time with friends. Our first stop was in Cheshire to stay with Mike & Carol whom we met in Nepal in 2023. We had a lovely time chatting, sitting in the sun, exploring their local town and just generally hanging…
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Read more: Month 5 Review
June 1st – June 30th June was another month where it is hard to choose the highlights. 1. Scotland North Coast 500 Whilst completing the full drive was great, the scenery on the west and north coasts was AMAZING. Every bend and rise in the road revealed something new and…
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Read more: Wales
From Cheshire we drove the huge distance (27km) into Wales and to Wrexham. We obviously had to have a beer at The Turf pub, adjacent to The Racecourse Ground. Wrexham’s home ground. We had a burger for lunch from the food truck in the pub’s carpark. It was quite busy…
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Read more: Cheshire
We have left the Lake District. With no real plans, we looked at what was between us and tonight’s accommodation and thought “Old Trafford?”. So we headed to Manchester via Kendal (of mint cake fame) to get some knitting needles for my next small project Initially we planned just to…
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Read more: The Lake District
We left Scotland behind today, travelling south (obviously) towards the Lake District. Our main “sight” for the day was the Cumberland Pencil Factory in Keswick. Home of Derwent Pencils! (We were in Keswick to replace the Victorinox swiss card that melted on a wood heater in Ireland.) The museum tour…
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Read more: NC500
We flew in from Faroe Islands, jumped into our car, (if you’re ever at Edinburgh airport and leaving a car, we highly recommend FastPark, it was so easy! We followed the signs, scanned our receipt, grabbed our keys out of the locker, walked to the specified bay and were at…
Hello,
Welcome! Bienvenue! Bienvenido! Wilkommen! Benvenuto!
We’re heading out on a mid-life gap year, that is 80% unplanned. As natural planners, we’re well and truly stepping out of our comfort zones.
We are currently here…
Countries visited (foot on ground):
17🇶🇦 🇲🇦 🇪🇸 🇵🇹 🇫🇷 🇦🇩 🇮🇹 🇻🇦 🇸🇲🇮🇪🏴 🏴 🇫🇴 🏴 🏴🇬🇬🇯🇪 🇫🇷
Distance travelled by mode (est):
- 🚘: 18962km
- ⛴️:14; 3138km
- 🚂: 8 ; 854km
- 🐪: 2 ; 7km
- 🛶: 2 ; 8km
- 🚲: 1 ; 30km
- 🚌: 1 ; 2223km
- ✈️: 4 ; 19530km
An Unplanned Year 