“This is Emily from Nat West, is this a convenient time to call?” Standing in my birthday suit in a showee on a campsite in France, there gave been better times. “I need proof of ID,  so di you have your bank card?” I occasionally forget the soap in the shower,  but a bank card […]

“Can you eat it?” enquired Topsy, as it was nearly dinner time. “There is not much TO eat!” said Happy unenthusiasticly. “Master will need to do better than this!” Master was awarded a 2/10 Master Dogchef rating, with the judges comment: “Must do better!” AND Today’s Camping tip: To save weight, hang your washed shorts […]

It”s that sickening feeling, when you reach for something, and it’s not there. Like a dog lead. We had   walk back 1k to retrieve them from a previous stop. Then there is today”s camping lesson. If you wish to make your backpack lighter, hang your washed shorts on the back to dry, and when […]

A day dodging roads, motorways, trains but beind rewarded by the chance discovery of a stick insect.

Navigating with a Spanish map in France is a not very helpful. In the midst of a downpour, the water hitting my pink plastic waterproof mobile cover, was sufficiently intense, as to cause the scale of the map to shrink from highly detailed,  to a map of  Europe, centered on Spain! Then it spun the […]

A hiking tip on how to reduce the weight of your back-pack.

It poured with rain all morning, and Ì dried out a bit too pubicly in the afternoon. Saw a bedraggled woodpecker fledgling

Glamping in an up-market tent in Beaumont-sur-Sarthe

Good start at 7PM. Like yesterdays,  some of GR36 overgrown and a fight with brambles. Once passed this, some pleasant drovers tracks along ridges through wooded areas. Luckily overcast and cool till mid-day. Got chatting to several locall people on the way, including Dominique on his tractor, just outside the very splendid house of a […]

The Romans have not left France. They have joined the Routes Forrestrier, who have carved a very boring 3k straight road to the East of St. Rémy-de-Sillé. I had diverted there for dog food (don’t ask for “croquettes” in a French restaurant ( dog nuts) ). The kind people with a Beagle and a little […]