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Back in Britain

We decided to hang out in Britain for a while. Andy and T let us stay at their place and made us “Andy’s Puddle Pudding” and showed us how to make it. We found a great campground outside of Walton on the Thames. It is a membership only site for the “Camping and Caravanning Club”. […]

Greenbelt

We just finished our 3rd festival of the summer. Greenbelt. We celebrated Abi’s birthday with lots of bubbles. Perfect for Abi. We just happened to have a polish bubble inventor with us (I am serious) Patricia (the bubologist) can be seen in the first picture on the right, with the pixie hat, and behind Abi’s […]

Belgium – catching up

In Belgium on our way to Antwerp Liz practising her sax while staying at another Stellplatz (Legal, free camping) We met the band, “the Dump Brothers”. They had their rehearsal outside our truck and taught Liz one of their songs and let her join in for the rehearsal. Way to go Lizzie after only 2 […]

Freakstock – catch-up

More amazing people at Freakstock. Old and new friends. Some New friends were “The Violet Burning“. Our paths crossed in 3 countries.   Russ, the DJ from London, teaching Abi bike maintenance. Anika brought out some instruments at the back of the truck. Michael from “The Violet Burning” takes video of Eric singing one of […]

Slot – catch-up

Our first festival of the summer was the Slot festival in Poland. The Nuvi in our truck brought us an interesting route. We arrived with a day to spare to get ready. Hannah has the hairdo ready. Andrew has other preparations. Hmmmm. What is in the shovel…… give up…. Camp Jones is now ready at […]

Berlin – catching up

In Berlin we saw Kerstin. Check out her great bike. It may not look like it at present but this is a game of Uno. Still the game of Uno. Hmmmm. We always love a trip to the Berlin Zoo. Andrew, always taking photos. Hannah feeding the animals. Well, the last photo. Could you resist […]

Portugal – Lisbon – catch up

We went to Lisbon area, Cascais, for an unexpectedly long time. We hung out with american missionary families and had our truck worked on. Had some time to sew a new invention called a hotdog to organize our tents. Our truck was gone for almost a month for repairs. Abi is sewing and Hannah is […]

Portugal – Fundao area – catch up

Our arrival was on Easter morning getting stuck on too small of a road in the center of a small village in a Catholic country on Easter Sunday morning at the end of Mass. I experienced a major paradigm shift from being embarrassed to learning to laugh at the most embarrassing of situations. A major […]

Fixing up Maggie, getting up to date

Finally putting together some of our photos of fixing up Maggie. Here’s some that start from when we bought Maggie in November,2008. We think she has come a long way to become our home on wheels. We found her at a farm a couple of islands over from ours in Orkney. Doug went with his […]

Farmers stand in France

I tell you I love roadside farmers stands. On our way to see friends in Grenoble, France, Andrew stopped so I could get some rasberries to share with our friend. Things always taste better from a farmer’s stand. Mum