Cornwall and Plymouth

Saturday 12th – Sunday 13th September 2020 A short but very packed and fun weekend away where we unexpectedly ticked Cornwall off the list of places to visit! Day 1 After a not early at all start with the sun shining, roof down and tunes on, we headed off to Read more

Wales

Saturday 18th – Sunday 19th July 2020 Our first night away in about 5 months and we are off to Wales to enjoy Vikki’s belated birthday Velocity 2 zip wire present. After weeks and weeks of beautiful weather the forecast showed one day of terrible weather would perfectly land on Read more

Lockdown finally eases

Friday 3rd July – Sunday 5th July 2020 After the longest and most boring 4 months thanks to Coronavirus COVID-19 the UK lockdown finally began easing. Friday night was spent very pleasantly having a socially distant catch up with Debs and Matt, however due to the pouring rain we couldn’t Read more

Venice

Friday 31st January – Sunday 2nd February Day 1 Having checked and double checked that we had everything we set off to Gatwick for our first foreign adventure of 2020…halfway to the airport Steve realised while he’d remembered to bring his coat and hat to mine he ‘d left them Read more

Stratford-Upon-Avon

Saturday 21st – Sunday 22nd December Our last road trip of 2019 was for a very nice, last minute, trip to visit Mark, Irina and the girls. We got there after a slight detour where the maps took us to a random location about 5miles outside of Stratford-Upon-Avon and with Read more

Gibraltar & Malaga

Friday 25th October – Monday 28th October Day 1 As we had such an early flight out we decided to book hotel at Gatwick so headed off down there Friday evening, after a takeaway. An uneventful drive, a short tour of the car park (thanks to Vikki getting the wrong Read more

First weekend with the MX5

Saturday 28th September 2019 We have our new car – woohoo! Steve braved the passenger seat and Vikki drove – a nervous start but no bumps, scratches, stalling, shouting or arguments so I would class it a success!  Salisbury Given the awful weather we were super lucky to have sun Read more

Eastbourne & Beachy Head

Saturday 17th – Sunday 18th August 2019 Day 1 A fairly last minute decision to go to Eastbourne for the weekend and we discovered after booking that it was Airbourne, Eastbourne’s annual airshow. With great intentions of arriving early to make the most of the airshow we called the hotel Read more

Back of Beyond

Friday 5th – Sunday 7th July 2019 A sunny, funny, water filled weekend camping quite literally in the Back of Beyond. Friday A fairly uneventful drive down on Friday evening, we headed off slightly later than planned due to Friday evening traffic, but did avoid the standard on / off Read more