by Pip Adwin | 05 Mar, 2020 | Castles, Portugal, Tour Five Spring 2020
Guimaraes – The First Capital of Portugal It’s Tuesday the 3rd of March and the rain is teeming down in the small city of Guimaraes, thirty odd miles northeast of Porto. Iggy has spent a wet and windy night tucked against the face of a hill in the large,...
by Pip Adwin | 16 Feb, 2020 | Beach, Castles, Nomad Life, Spain, Tour Five Spring 2020
Salobrena – Ten Days at Villa El Paraiso The morning sun is rising over Salobrena, painting the darkness with rainbow shades of red, pink, orange and yellow. It slowly unveils the giant fog bank blanketing the cool waters of the sea. From our vantage point on...
by Pip Adwin | 28 Sep, 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...
by Pip Adwin | 12 Sep, 2019 | Autumn Tour 2019, Castles, Serbia
The date is Thursday, 12th September, and Iggy the Hymer motorhome is parked next to a broken fortress in Smederevo, Serbia. We have no internet data and Jay is playing Skyrim on the other side of the dinette table. He has his headphones on, and is oblivious to his...
by Pip Adwin | 09 Sep, 2019 | Autumn Tour 2019, Castles, Slovenia
The date is Monday the 9th of September and Yggdrasil, the Hymer motorhome, is spending his second night at the free Aire in Sevnica, Slovenia. It is eighteen days, and six countries since we began this Autumn Tour. I know this for a fact, as I just checked out my...
by Pip Adwin | 06 Sep, 2019 | Autumn Tour 2019, Castles, Germany
In yesterday’s update I left you all on a rain drenched German Autobahn, just south of Munich. Jay was somehow managing to guide Iggy the Hymer motorhome through the jostling juggernauts, and tedious traffic jams. Marley was snoring gently on the floor between...