In February we took 6 days out, to visit our friends Kamil and Helena, who were taking a holiday from their Overland trip driving from Hove to Australia. The reason for their break was because the car was being shipped from Japan to Australia. Need less to say it was freezing. We spent the first […]
After spending the night at Fort Pramond, we had a plan today to drive up to Mount Jafferau and then on to a nearby Lake that is now a reservoir, we were hoping to spend the night by the river there. We managed to pack up fairly promptly and were on the way by the time
Is Fort Pramand haunted by ghosts? Since leaving the Plitvička national park, in Croatia where we visited the former top secret airbase of Zeljava we made our way to Fort Pramand, which was the next area we planned to do some off-road exploring, near Oulx. On the way we stopped in Slovenia at the Bovec national park
Vacuum Pump Failure – Covert Repairs Carole and Daniel have decided that they would like to look for a small camping fridge. We looked for a Decathlon and used the GPS find our way. It was along the way and we were heading towards Bari now. We found a Decathlon, but were not in luck,
It was a rather later start to our day than we had expected, with the knock on affect of us arriving in Pisa at midday. As we searched for a parking space, the temperature signs showed that it was already 40°C … it was going to be a scorcher! We parked on the outskirts and
Another winding journey down off the mountain this morning. We stopped in a small, sleepy town and had the best coffee we have had so far on this holiday. From here, we decided to drive along the coast and make our way to Cinque Terre National Park. The drive along the coast was lovely. We
Overlanding in the Maritime Alps, France and Italy Col Linaire, Col de Sanson, Pas de Colle Ardente – Mount Saccarel After finishing up on Col de Tende we headed back down to the town of Tende for supplies and to freshen up at the local piscine (swimming pool) (If only they had known!), before we
Baisse d’Ourne, Col de Tende – Fort de la Marguerie, Fort Central Yesterday morning we woke at our Campsite in Barolo in Italy early, the plan was to get to Tende in France, stock up on supplies at the super market, fill up with diesel, grab some petrol for the stove and head up to
We took the mountain roads to St Jean D’Aulps. We had informed Anna that we were coming, but due to the incident in Paris, we were early by a day. We decided to stop in Taninges for lunch before arriving at there’s late afternoon. We had a lovely pizza in a sleepy pizzeria. As always,
Thanks to being the lucky recipient of a Safari Snorkel for my Birthday and many Christmases to come, I managed to get a Safari Snorkel fitted to the Landy last week. It was all fairly straight forward and I forgot to take many photos.The most intimidating bit for me was drilling the holes in the