The morning we drove out of Reykjavik the sun had disappeared and rain was pouring down. The rain was forecasted to continue for the next couple of days, so we planned accordingly, keeping our touristing to inside activities. It was …
When you live in an RV, weather is a big deal. Mostly we just try to go when the sun shines and to where the temperatures are tolerable. If that doesn’t work we either hunker down or move on in …
Leaving Vik after a couple of days we made our way to one of Iceland’s most famous waterfalls, Skogafoss. The waterfall is spectacular. Just to the right of it is a staircase of 527 steps that take you to the …
It was a dark and stormy night. That pretty much sums up our first overnight experience in Iceland and by all accounts, the weather was not going to improve much in the coming days, particularly in the east and to …
As I type I am looking out at the waves of the North Sea as we sail toward Torshavn, the capital city of the Faroe Islands. We are aboard the Smyril Line ferry that departed from Hirtshals, Denmark on Saturday, …
As much as we try not to plan too much into the future, there are times when a hard date dictates where we go and how long we can stay. We had ferry reservations to leave England and return to …
We had a couple of chores to finish up before we headed to Wales, one of which was getting the oil changed on Bijou and having a thorough inspection done. We get this inspection done every other year when we …
Upon leaving Ireland we once again sailed from Belfast to Cairnryan in Scotland. We decided to return to the Scar Park aire on Loch Ryan and wow, what a difference just two months makes! When last we were there the …
We had an uneventful ferry crossing to Harwich. Well, it was almost eventful, as leaving The Netherlands meant crossing a Schengen border. Even though I, as the spouse of an EU citizen, have the same right of free movement as …
From the time we left Santiago in mid-April, we really only had two hard dates that dictated our travels before catching the ferry to Ireland from Scotland in late June. First, we had reservations at a campground near Paris for …
