We set of from cambrils about 8am heading back into France; we had planned to spend a week making our way home but due to unforeseen circumstances we had to head home straight away.

 I carried on driving all day stopping for short breaks, getting to the outskirts of Paris about 11pm we decided to stop for a bit of sleep, while parked up trying to sleep a car started to drive round the service area stopping to check us out, so we moved on getting to Calais about 3am. After booking on the 9 am ferry I parked up in the lane and was just about to drop off to sleep when we were awoken by one of the ferry staff telling us we could get on this ferry.

We arrived in Dover about 6 am and drove straight home, walking through the front door at 11:30.

Never again am I going to drive like that.

   this is the route we took, notice the detour

From escala we decided to go further down the coast and stopped a big site that was quite expensive called cambrils park, www.cambrilspark.es we had stop there several years ago and really enjoyed it. Got to the site and booked in for 4 nights picked our pitch from the site map.

When we got settled we had a walk about and found that the place had turned into a bit of a dump. But we had paid so we had to stop. After 4 days I was glad to get out of there, and started the drive north back into

the pool area at cambrils park

                                

Day 5

Set off early and started to drive towards Toulouse, not knowing where we are going makes it quite an adventure. Was having a Nice steady drive when trucks started flashing lights at me from behind, so I pulled over and went to the back of the van.  The doors where open, but luckily nothing had been lost. at the back of the van it is boarded off for a storage area for the chairs and leads and other stuff.

Anyway carried on driving and decided to go into Spain, when we crossed the border we carried on until we ended up at a place call escala, and found a site called www.campinglescala.com. The facilities where 1^st class with a brand new toilet block so ended stopping for 4 nights.

Day 4

We set off about 10:00am in the morning and had no idea where we were going the only plan was to head south towards Spain, after driving for several hours a realised I had taken the wrong motorway. So decided to find a site for the night we ended up at

www.camping-le-futuriste.fr we stopped for the night and left in the morning.

Day 2

The next morning we set off again heading for a place called honfleur we arrived late afternoon and found a campsite just on the edge of the town the weather was great so we stopped for a couple of days and put the drive away awning up and went to explore the area.

Many ancient belfries are free standing because they attracted lightning. It is better to lose a belfry than a church. This one is covered by weather panelling and looks like it has a slate roof. Note the external support beams. The bell-ringer used to live in the lower floor. The inside support wood work is also interesting.

1ST Trip to Europe

Day 1

Well it was 6:00 am Friday morning and we left home for Dover to catch the 18:00 Seafrance to Calais. we left early as we expected some problems of some kind but no, all went well and we ended up getting an earlier ferry.

We had no sites booked in France so we just drove for 30 minutes and came across a little site call campsite des trolls. Not bad for a 1 night stopover.

    a tree at the campsite des trolls.

Our first trip in Ollie

Ollie was our self build motor home, I purchased an mwb iveco daily panel van from the auctions. And over the next 18 months converted it into a motor home, with the help of the SBMCC web site it turned out better than expected.

We had our first trip to Wales.  www.fronfarmcaravanpark.co.uk

It was the weekend before Easter 2010, and the weather was fantastic.

We stayed for 2 days and were very proud of our efforts, now Europe was our oyster.