22nd May Wrotham, near Maidstone Slept late today and had a quiet day except for a short bicycle ride to Leybourne Lakes. Now this looks easy on the map: do not have the map as I left it at home on the bed. Therefore, it should be flat and easy just to the north of the M20. The route is reasonably straightforward and helped by some signposts. It meanders through some pretty, local villages and is reasonably flat even if the road is narrow in places. Its in...

So after weeks of preparation we were ready to go…..we thought. When you travel by plane, train, or suchlike, the baggage restrictions are such that one controls, at least to some extent, the amount of luggage one tries to take. It is all carefully selected and weighed so that one does not get too much of a shock on lifting the bag, or at the airport when it ends up on the scales. A motorhome (or caravan perhaps) is different. So we can take the kitchen s...

So here we go again - off on our travels, this time for 45 days. We leave here on the 21st of May and expect to return on the 7th July. We are heading into Europe to explore a wide range of cultures, food, wine, life and so on crfossing at least 8 borders and visiting France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Austria, and Italy. After many weeks of debate we hyave now sorted out a route that is roughly as follows: Dawlish, Maidstone, Calais...