by Pip Adwin | 26 Sep, 2019 | Autumn Tour 2019, Cities, Romania
It is six o’clock in the morning of Thursday 26th September, and a crazy itching in my hand has driven me out of bed. Iggy has spent the last two nights beside the lovely Parcul Tineretului in Bucharest ( 44.404360, 26.109427) and the cooler weather of the last...
by Pip Adwin | 05 Sep, 2019 | Autumn Tour 2019, Cities, Germany, Nomad Life, Our Tree
Yggdrasil the Hymer motorhome is speeding down the Bavarian Autobahn in the rain. Current position – somewhere on the Munich ring road. The roads, as seems to be the case everywhere here, are busy, and drivers are reluctant to make space. Road works and hold ups...
by Pip Adwin | 31 Aug, 2019 | Autumn Tour 2019, Cities, Germany
Yggdrasil the Hymer motorhome is sitting in a rapidly filling car park in Aachen, Germany. (50.7617, 6.07141). It is just a regular, rough ground car park, but it is free, and an easy walk into the historic city centre. On the other side of the one way street is a...
by Pip Adwin | 30 Aug, 2019 | Autumn Tour 2019, Belgium, Cities
The day is Friday, 30th August and a full week has passed already since Yggdrasil the Hymer motorhome set off on our fourth European Tour. I write these words on a new friend’s driveway in Belgium. Looking back over the three countries we have passed through...
by Pip Adwin | 17 Jul, 2019 | Cities, Portugal, Spring Tour 2019
It’s Wednseday 27th February and today is our 23rd on the road since we up and walked out of that Morrison’s supermarket back in Edinburgh. Today that may as well be a lifetime ago as Iggy and the Travel Malarkey team are living the easy life at the free...
by Pip Adwin | 15 Jul, 2019 | Cities, Portugal, Spring Tour 2019
On our first morning in Porto we set off bright and early for the three mile walk along the river Douro from Afurada fishing harbour into the city centre. Normally I might hesitate to park up so far away. But in the case of Porto an hour’s walk along this...