Category Archives: Site stuff

Move the scenery instead…

Posted on November 6, 2012 by AdrianC

Whilst we’re back (however temporarily) in sunny Blighty, it seems like a good idea to set the site’s header pic to a random rotation through all the old images we’ve used whilst on the trip. If you’re wondering where any … Continue reading →

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Full circle

Posted on October 30, 2012 by AdrianC

On arrival at Harwich, the slowly retreating night revealed a very cold, damp and misty morning. The roads contained far heavier traffic than we’d seen for ages, and everybody seemed to be in a hurry. We had a plan and … Continue reading →

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A colourboration

Posted on May 20, 2012 by EllieGee

I’m thrilled to announce a collaboration with Lynne, or DoveGreyReader, a well known and highly respected book blogger. If you are interested in a wide range of reading – both fiction and non-fiction of all sorts, you mustn’t miss a … Continue reading →

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A year in a red campervan – our lives, the road movie

Posted on May 19, 2012 by EllieGee

One year on and we’re still here, on the road. This is no longer ‘Ellie and Adrian’s big trip’, but our way of life. It’s what we do. For now. How far have we come? We guestimate at 40,000km across … Continue reading →

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Swings and Roundabouts (part 2)

Posted on December 30, 2011 by AdrianC

The laptop’s back! One week for the shipping materials to get from Dell to us, one week for the laptop to get to Dell in Germany. Then a couple of days for them to rebuild it with a new motherboard … Continue reading →

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Swings and Roundabouts

Posted on December 5, 2011 by AdrianC

There are days when nothing goes right, and there are days when everything goes right. Saturday was the former, today seems to be the latter so far. (Well, apart from this morning’s little incident when Ellie and her bicycle were … Continue reading →

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Six months on…

Posted on November 19, 2011 by AdrianC

Today, 19th November, marks six months since we walked out of our house and drove to Dover. A lot’s happened in that time. We’ve been to a lot of places. We’ve covered about 20,000km (difficult to be sure, because of … Continue reading →

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Header pic archive

Posted on October 24, 2011 by AdrianC

We were thinking the other day about the header pics we’ve been using on the site. When we first started travelling, we found it difficult to take pics that looked good in the very narrow format (940 x 198 pixels, … Continue reading →

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Still alive…

Posted on June 17, 2011 by AdrianC

In case you were wondering. We’ve been somewhat lax over the last week, compounded by intermittent web access. But the  next installment is on the way, honest.

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Hello and welcome!

Posted on March 27, 2011 by AdrianC

This blog’s going to be about our life on the open road. Who are we? Adrian and Ellie and a big red campervan. What are we? We could get metaphysical in answering that one. We could call ourselves travellers. We … Continue reading →

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