Mishaps & Misadventures
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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...
Iggy the Hymer Blows A Fuse – An Auto Electrics Saga
The day is Friday the 15th of November, and I'm sitting typing at the viewing window in Stainless Creations, Falkirk, Scotland. Stainless Creations,...
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...
Breakdown Serbia – 1 Mechanic, 2 Mechanic…
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...
Wernberg – Of Inns, Lakes & A Fence That Bites
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...
A Hot Saturday in Mayen – Classic Cars & Castles
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...
Flooding in South of France
Amazing sight driving through the Etang de l’Or – literally!
Unusual heavy snowfall, and a night stuck on the roadside, followed by torrential rain, and then 16 degrees of sunshine leads to a LOT of water.
Great fun! As long as it’s safe folks. We knew it was passable before we went in. x