France Hit France and cruised down the coast till we found a nice place to stay, which happened to be an aire. These are usually free and some have services such as water, waste water disposal etc. Next day we wandered down the coast stopping along the way at the beautiful little townships. Stopped off at Rouen for lunch before heading towards Paris. Sue found a campground for us to stay reasonably near so we could use the public transport. Found the campg...

19 July. Hello from Scotland. Seen as the landscape is lush and very green, as you might imagine, there is lots of rain. It's also cooler with highs around 20 - 25 degrees and lows around 10 degrees. We are over the rain now!!! Will be back in England tomorrow and heading south so it will slowly warm up again. The scenery in Wales & Scotland is breath taking but the traffic is horrendous. Imagine 60 million people living in N.Z. Civic pride runs ...

England After leaving Poole we decided to head north as the forecast was not that flash. We have been rather spoilt for the last few days with beautiful clear sunny days. We stopped off at several off the smaller villages on the way to Bath, William Shakespeare territory. Lots off people there including classes of children obviously doing the history thing on Shakespeare. We cruised on up the country until we had had enough and stopped off at another overcha...

England Dover to Poole 9.7.10 We arrived at Calais in time to catch the 3.30 ferry. It only takes 1 ½ hours to cross to Dover. The sea was flat calm. We set off towards the south east and kept going for about an hour before we called it quits for the day. It is so nice to be able to read the roadsigns,go into a supermarket and actually know what you are buying( we h...

Belgium 8/7/10 We drove through Belgium trying to keep to the lesser roads which are far more interesting than the boring motorways. The only problem is that Mr Garmin GPS doesn't recognise when a road has been detoured for roadworks. We spent the best part of an hour trying to get out of a town called Gent which is probably about the si...