Labrabulli-on-tour

Some may have wondered why there was nothing to read here on the blog. We are back home, the journey ended on July 30, 2024, after 364 days on the road. I'm finding it a bit...

Now we are just at the border between Baden, Hesse, and Bavaria, we are near Wertheim. Our campsite is really pushing my limits again, as I feel like I am in an oil sardine tin....

Karma rules here! I haven't been here for 30 years, a lot has changed here! Last time, I could still look down from above at Schrottie's pink sunroof, today you have to park far...

We have now been back in good old Germany for a few days! What can I report? First, I should point out that I still expect other people to greet me with "Bonjour!" or "Good...

Now it has happened! We are back in Germany 🇩🇪! I have to admit that Joe Biden's gesture for democracy in the USA was more important to me today, but that's part of it,...

Why do I mention two countries in one headline? The answer is simple and entertaining, because when we were looking for a campsite near Bruges in Belgium, the border didn't...

Sometimes it's funny when you return to where the journey really began last year! We were back at 'Camping Casino' in Oye Plage, where we spent a few days last August and had a...

The journey is slowly coming to an end, thanks to Christian we are ending almost as we started. We have landed back at the small campsite near Blean, which is simple but...

As I type this, I have one eye laughing and one eye crying! The wonderful year is slowly coming to an end, and hopefully we have mastered the 12metriquadrati challenge. What do...

Now we are almost exactly on the border to Wales, the River Wye is the border, so we are somewhere in the middle of nowhere in this network! It's strange when the Wi-Fi goes...

We have now landed in Wales, simply because Christian wanted to see a doctor for some health reasons and it worked out straight away. Everything is fine, no worries! It was a...

We drove further north again and reached "Pride and Prejudice" country, we are still in Derbyshire. The book says so beautifully: "He owns half of Derbyshire!" Said Charlotte. ...

Kent is always beautiful, as it is England's gateway to the world, at least in my eyes! How can I describe what I experience here? It is beautiful here, of course, there are...

We have now spent a week in England, in our case Kent. It is time to relax and unwind. So what makes it so easy for us? First of all, there is the fact that we are in the...

Christian and I had planned to spend midsummer in Norway. BUT an accident and a broken brake have messed everything up. The brakes are working again, but despite the welding...

Christian is a little unlucky sometimes because he is married to a teacher. That means I want to do history every now and then! He experienced this first hand in Poitiers and...

I had heard something about the Dorgogne river before; in my crime series, a policeman searches for murderers around Saint Denis, and now we have ended up there, where there are...

We had been spoiled by good weather since mid-November, but then we were hit by a bad spell in the Basque Country, which continued to haunt us during our time in Toulouse. But...

It's time again for a "Caravanlife" entry. Christian and I have been on tour since the end of July 2023, there have been ups and downs, there have been great things, not so...

Christian and I have been to France many times, not only because we often visit the country for transit to Great Britain, but because there are always beautiful regions that we...

We landed back in France after a relatively short journey! What can I say, linguistically it's a little easier for me, although I can understand Spanish pretty well now when...

We spent two nights in the Basque Country in Zarautz near San Sebastian, one of the surfing strongholds of northern Spain. It was a relatively large campsite, which was...

Now we drove a few kilometers further east along the coast in two stops, we were on the border between Galicia and Asturias, then we went further into the Picos de Europa...

That sounds ominous! Yesterday we were at the "official" end of the (Spanish and known) world, today at the geographical point, if you ignore the fact that we drove past the...

Now we have arrived in northern Spain, Galicia. What can I say? It is as green as Portugal, the Iberian peninsula shows its not so dry side, we are not in the Tabernas...

The name of the city meant nothing to me until... When we were in Gouveia, the manager of the campsite advised us to go to his hometown of Guimarães. We actually did that...

Today there was a tour to Porto! We actually found a parking garage that accommodated our van while we went on a little city tour. I don't really like cities because it's...

Christian and I actually escaped the winter because it was cool in Morocco, but we didn't have any real rain or, God forbid, snow. In Portugal and Spain, things were a little...

We didn't land directly in Coimbra, but we took a trip there. From the Alentejo we went further north to the town of Setra. This may be confusing for some people, as we were not...

When most people think of Portugal, they think of the Algarve, Lisbon and Porto because these are the most popular destinations. As a dog owner, I have a different view on this,...