by Pip Adwin | 02 Feb, 2020 | France, Mishaps & Misadventures, Nomad Life, Spain, Tour Five, Tour Five Spring 2020
A Very Scottish Brexit – Two Countries in One Day Iggy the Hymer motorhome has woken after three days in France, to a beautiful -t-shirt weather morning in Saint-Lons-les-Mines in French Basque country. The commune has kindly placed a free Aire at the top of the... 
by Pip Adwin | 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 Pip Adwin | 14 Sep, 2019 | Autumn Tour 2019, Mishaps & Misadventures, Serbia
A Broken Fuel Pump – Downtime in Serbia 7 a.m. on Saturday the 14th of September and I flopped out of Iggy’s drop down bed a bare two hours after I fell asleep. The man from Bosch was due to run the diagnostics test on Iggy in one hour, and I needed to... 
by Pip Adwin | 13 Sep, 2019 | Autumn Tour 2019, Mishaps & Misadventures, Serbia
It’s four o’clock in the morning and Iggy the Hymer motorhome is sitting in a garage forecourt somewhere near Smederevo in Serbia. Our map coordinates are 44.575048, 20.892284. There is no town or village near us to give a name. Iggy is broken. His engine... 
by Pip Adwin | 09 Sep, 2019 | Austria, Autumn Tour 2019, Dog Log, Mishaps & Misadventures
It was the best of days, it was the worst of days. To paraphrase Dickens is a cheat of a way to start a post. But, sometimes, the great writers who came before me have already used the words I want to use. Darned inconsiderate of them I would say. But such are the... 
by Pip Adwin | 01 Sep, 2019 | Autumn Tour 2019, Castles, Germany, Mishaps & Misadventures
Summer is over. Or so the calendar says, as I wake up to a thankfully cooler dawn in Mayen, on Sunday 1st September. Every window that sports mosquito nets has been wide open throughout the night – rain and all. And I thank the Gods that we were in a Stellplatz...