by Pip Adwin | 04 May, 2023 | 2023, Italy
In Search of Gods – Trani to Termoli The first words are always the hardest. ‘Sorry,’ ‘I love you,’ or the opening sentence of a blog post – they are all the same. Our brains scramble into overdrive. What should we say? How should we say it? Is the moment...
by Pip Adwin | 27 Apr, 2023 | 2023, Greece, Journal
Morning Sun on Igoumenitsa The Greeks rise early and walk briskly by the waterside along Igoumenitsa’s curving bay. The sun follows more slowly, teasing the populace like an old-fashioned Burlesque dancer as it pushes gradually above the high encircling hills...
by Pip Adwin | 26 Apr, 2023 | 2023, Greece, Journal
Seeds – Pack up the van and go It is three days now since my travels resumed, and this is the third day I have begun to write down my journey. Twice I have failed to finish. Today I shall not. The date, according to my iPhone, is Wednesday 26th April 2023, it is...
by Pip Adwin | 04 Jun, 2022 | France, New Beginnings - 2022
Trurnaround – New Directions Once More It’s six a.m. on Friday the third of June, and the air is full of the sound of birds welcoming the new day. Iggy the Hymer motorhome and I are the only ones awake in our little spot in Camping Lac Vert Plage, on the banks...
by Pip Adwin | 01 Oct, 2020 | Moving to Portugal, Nomad Life, Portugal
Residency in Portugal – Travel Malarkey Get Our CRUE It’s Thursday the first of October 2020 as I wake up for the first time as a legal resident of Portugal. The early morning sun is glinting through Iggy’s not quite shut blinds, and it is a pleasantly cool...
by Pip Adwin | 18 Sep, 2020 | France, Motorhome Travel Tours, Portugal, Route Maps, Spain
Route Map to a New Life – Scotland to Portugal Hi, and welcome to the first in a new series of Travel Malarkey “Route Map” articles. In this new series I’m going to make up a number of route maps, showing all the destinations we’ve...