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Getting Prepared
Chris and I bought our campervan Betsy Mk4 on 22/12/12. This was our first try in a van and decided a good test would be a winter holiday. Despite torrential rain and high winds we enjoyed our long weekend in Swanage. Betsy did well, no leaks and cosy and warm.
We are now preparing for european travel and are so excited. I have taken delivery …
The last day
It's gone so quickly and there is so much still to see....another return trip perhaps? It's been an interesting visit, different to that we expected perhaps, as mentioned before, contrasts from lavish demonstrations of (modern) wealth to remnants of the soviet past. From Lada's to Lamborghini's, it has a real mix, but looking through a sort of facade which behind it there is still some way to go to get to western world standards, ...
Getting Ready a Week to go!
So were frantically working (ro) / seeing friends / packing and buying last few bits and bobs! Insurance paid for and flip flops packed. Roisin packing up her room and thinking about how to take Yannis in her backpack :) We will try and write on ...
Packing warm clothes!
... with some jumpers and other warm things. So hopefully we will be ok. Russia will be a new experience in traveling terms! Just the alphabet for instance, Cyrillic...oh my goodness, have you seen this!! This is the name of our hotel in Russian Отель Пушка ...
Tits and more!
So - the rain has stopped. A wonderful morning, with the sun coming through the trees. Warm enough for a walk in the forest. Still a little bit squelchy under foot, but peaceful and varied.
Super birdlife. Different types of tits, woodpeckers, nuthatches, wrens, robins, blackbirds as well as crows, squirrels and rabbits. Those little white tails are sooooo cute.
It was interesting walking round the campsite to see how others do it! Love the ones who have ...
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