by Fi | 30 Nov, 2019 | Nomad Life
It’s Friday the 29th of November 2019, and Iggy the Hymer motorhome is parked up on a quiet side street in the town of Forfar, North East Scotland. It is a month since we returned from our last tour around the Balkans. And in that month I have mostly been ill....
by Fi | 15 Nov, 2019 | Mishaps & Misadventures, Nomad Life, Scotland
The day is Friday the 15th of November, and I’m sitting typing at the viewing window in Stainless Creations, Falkirk, Scotland. Stainless Creations, as some of you may remember, is the workshop we found to make us a brand new, custom, stainless steel exhaust for...
by Fi | 11 Oct, 2019 | Autumn Tour 2019, Germany
The first thing that struck me about Buchenwald was the sheer ordinariness of it. No medieval castle dungeons here. Dripping dank water, atmospherically, down ancient stone walls. Just some squat, grey, featurless walls, a long wire fence, and a big open space dotted...
by Fi | 04 Oct, 2019 | Autumn Tour 2019, Romania
Our day in Sibiu had been our fourth in Romania, and it was time to think about making our way onwards to Hungary. I had checked the map for a route through to Poland and Auschwitz. There were many ways to go, but our time was limited, and I was keeping roughly to the...
by Fi | 02 Oct, 2019 | Autumn Tour 2019, Castles, Romania
The day is Saturday the 28th of September, and Iggy the Hymer motorhome is sitting at a slant, across from the park in Sibiu, Romania. ( 45.796975, 24.157754 ) The morning sun is bright through the blinds, and I type quickly, trying to jot down the events of the...
