Marsciano to Tewkesbury

Miles: 2564 Total Mileage: 18,354 Bits of the van that fell off/broke: 3 Birthdays in the van: 1 Early ‘Christmas day’ celebrated: 1 Gilet Jaunes protests crept through: 2 Jamon Ibericos snuck back to England: 1 Impulse buy PS4s bought: 1 Total number of countries visited: 16 Vague Route: Marsciano – Italy Siena Parco Nazionali […]

Cluj-Napoca to Marsciano

Miles: 1275 Total Mileage: 15,648 Stowaways: Mr. John Pitcher (Pa) Extremely hot chilli peppers eaten mistaken for a sweet pepper: 1 Suspicious Slovenian cars circling the van: 1 Old friends seen: 2 New friends met: 2 Vague route: Cluj-Napoca – Romania Sárvár – Hungary Budapest Szigliget Lake Balaton National Park Zagreb – Croatia Ljubljana – […]

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Olive picking in Umbria

La Raccolta delle Olive – an Umbrian Olive Harvest

To set the scene Harry and Tina were casually bumbling through Eastern Europe whilst I was casually bumbling around Herefordshire, trying to make it through the day without curling up into a ball and sobbing all day long. I had managed to fill over a month with lots of fun activities, catching up with friends, […]

Chernobyl

Chernobyl is one of those outlandish and surreal places that is very hard to describe accurately. There is also the feeling you get whilst walking around the villages, towns, and the power plant where the explosion took place, that you can’t quite put your finger on. It is easier to convey the desperation but also […]

Ukraine and Romania – Bachevsk to Cluj Napoca

Miles: 1120 Total mileage: 14,373 Stowaways: 1 – Sir. George Pitcher Nuclear Exclusion Zones visited: 1 Radiation dosage picked up: 0.03 roentgens Ford garages visited: 1 Cases of overeating leading to meat sweats: 3 American Mormon families that came to our aid: 1 Our big drive was over, visa free travel was in sight, and […]

Russia ep. 2

Miles: 3963 Total mileage: 13,253 Visits to Ford garages: 1 Drunk Russian men trying to hit the van with a crowbar: 1 Police stops: 2 Vague route: Khygat – Mongolian border crossing Ulan Ude Lake Baikal Uyar Chany Kurgan Ufa Samara Lipetsk Troyebortnoye – Ukrainian Border crossing Exhausted and overwhelmed from a week driving in […]

Монгол улс – Mongolia

Miles: 1555 Total Mileage: 9290 Cacti plants lost in the desert: 2 Tows out of sand dunes: 1 Vague route: Ulaanbaishint – Russian border Tsagaannuur Ulgii Khovd Altai Bayankhongor Eden Zuu Monastery – Kharkhorin Ulaanbatar Chinggis Khaan Statue Complex – Nalaikh Darkhan Altanbulag – Russian border I could talk about Mongolia forever It was […]

Russia ep. 1

Miles: 3377 Total Mileage: 7734 CV joint guards broken: 3 Police checks: 1 Ford garages visited: 4 Herb plants lost: 1 Language barrier misunderstandings: daily Vague route: Vaalimaa – Finnish border crossing St Petersburg Moscow Kirzhach Nizhy Novgorod Kazan Ufa Ishim Novosibirsk Barabinsk Tashanta – Mongolian border crossing Twas the night before August as the […]

40 days and counting

Asking Harry what he thought of Norway in three words he said ‘Get back to me, not right now’. At that present time he was, if I remember correctly, at a particularly stressful roundabout and when it calmed down he quietly began to ponder and I forgot to get back to him. However, he finally […]