Van Turismo Diary

Our first full day back in the UK!! It weirdly feels all too familiar and just like we haven’t been gone the last 5 months 😲 We are both pretty shattered today, although Rich does all the driving, I’m in pretty cramped quarters next to the beef’s car seat and all the baby paraphernalia at […]

We made it!! Fortunately just before the barrier at the campsite closed at 10pm so just the 14 hours driving today to get us home. I am so drained driving is one of those things which despite not moving or anything the constant concentration doesn’t half take it out of you. We set off last

That was a long day, its about midnight here and we are now parked up on another free park up which is basically a service station. SOmewhere in mid France. I am absolutely shattered already i was going to set an alarm for about 6 or 7 tomorrow but there is no way. The plan

Was our last day in Salamanca today i made the executive decision that actually i wanted to try and get home on the Saturday so that meant a decent drive tonight, a bit drive tomorrow afternoon and then all day on Saturday. That works out to be over 20 hours worth of driving from THursday

This campsite has been amazing. There’s a little shop, that has fresh bread every day, and good snacks, aka proper crisps and chocolate 🤭 There’s also a nice little terrace to sit with a beer or wine, and a restaurant. We had tapas last night and tonight we managed to get a table inside so

Made the big mistake by just assuming that Spain in May would still be warm enough to be outside from the crack of dawn. Oh wow was I wrong, it was 5 degrees over night and there was no electric pitches when we got there and it was absolutely freezing. It was literally absolutely freezing.

We only left Gibraltar yesterday and are already on to our second 3 hour or so stint to take us closer to home. By the time we get to Salamanca we’ll be half way up Spain already! We are heading to a campsite just outside Salamanca, on the recommendation of someone we met at this

Had a bad head this morning. It was absolutely throbbing but it was a great great night, one of those nights that you cannot remember but will never forget. It was nice to be able to spend a night with Ness and Gee and having a good send off for each other. Ness was very

Almost felt like being back home today. But from the beginning…. we set of from Mohammedia at about 7 o’clock which for us is good because aimed for 06:30. So we got in the camper and then started chipping away at the 5 hours driving we had to do today. It is pretty much one

The great march north has begun. Our plans have changed about 3 or 4 times today about how we mange the trek. Once i no in my head that i am going somewhere or doing something then that is it. Just got to get it done. SO the plan today was to get as far