Author - Dan

Born and raised in Nottingham, I've lived in Brighton for the past 11 years with Lorraine. I studied Architecture @ Brighton Uni, worked in an Architects Practice for 5 years before moving into Development for a Housing Association.

In 2017 we got our dog, Marley, and its been one of the best decisions we have ever made.

I'm into Bikes, Running, Music, Design, Architecture, Nature and of course Food.

Musical Moho’s

May 4, 2018Dan2 min read

04/05/18 Cabourg, Normandy We arrived at Dives Sur Mer Aire de Camping around lunchtime after spending about half an hour trying to find it given they had shut the road leading to it (at least the road google maps was trying to take us down!). It was chocca around the perimeter, leaving only spaces in a strip in the middle of the aire. Being British, of course, we parked our van as far away as we could from the only other camper using the middle strip, only for them to move alongside us within about 5 minutes…..is this the way to do things we thought?….it seemed strange behaviour, but sure enough as the next van pulled in, it too parked right next to that one.. We had ran out of water, so decided to pay the €5 Charge to top-up and empty our waste water which of course meant moving the van, so we did our business only to find the guy that followed us had moved into where we parked….rather than re-park at the opposite end, we parked as close to him as we could without...

Pretty Medieval Town – Honfleur

May 3, 2018Dan1 min read

03/05/18 – Honfleur, Normandy

 onfleur is a pretty medieval port which was about 30 minutes walk from our aire. When we eventually arrived (See previous post about Marley and his bike basket) we spent just under a couple of hours walking quite slowly, circling the main tourist part of town around the harbour. The majority of streets all lead back to the port where there are numerous options to eat, catering for most tastes and budgets. I’m sure this place would be a beautiful in the evening for a meal or to have a few drinks.

There are lots of boutique shops and galleries alongside the regular touristy ones to explore if you are looking for something to buy. Given we aren’t the biggest of shoppers at the best of times, it’s probably why we felt we made it around the town so quickly.

Lorraine also found  €20 on the floor – enough to pay for lunch somewhere 🙂

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Will Marley ever take to his Basket?

May 3, 2018Dan2 min read

02/05/18 – 03/05/18 – La Rivière-Saint-Sauveur,  Normandy Our second free nights accommodation was to be in the pretty little town of La Rivière-Saint-Sauveur (GPS 49.4082236,0.2652922,17), approximately 30 minutes brisk walk to Honfleur. From what we saw the town really consisted of a few shops, town hall and police station off the main road and that was about it. The aire itself had enough room for about 10 Moho’s all on semi-hardstanding/grass pitches, divided by low hedges. We arrived around 4 pm and there were plenty of spaces, but with in a couple of hours, they were all full. There is a lovely park on the other side of the bridge – a great place to walk your dog, with picnic tables to eat at should the 2 on the site be occupied.  We brought our bikes with us, and a bike basket for Marley which we had tried hard to get him used to before we left England, but he wasn’t so keen after the initial ride, so we took this as a first opportunity to slowly...

Bonjour Francais

May 1, 2018Dan2 min read

01/05/18 – 02/05/18 – Stella Plage, Cucq, Hauts-de-France We decided to take the Euro tunnel given that Marley hadn’t been on a ferry before and being the overprotective parents we are, we didn’t want to leave him alone in the van for the 1.5 hour crossing. It was a little more expensive (£120) one-way. However, with half an hour of boarding the train, we were pulling out of the Calais port and on our way to our first overnight stop. About an hour south of Calais we experienced our first French Aire (Specific overnight stop for Moho’s) in town called Cucq. This place consisted of about 20 spaces between the sand dunes adjacent to the Stella Plage which was a 100m or so over the dunes (GPS 50.4721676,1.5784545,16.71). We arrived around 20:30 giving us just enough time to make our way over to the beach, which as far as we could tell was dog friendly – well at least we didnt encounter anyone telling us we couldn’t go on there with Marley. He...

Bye Bye Blighty

May 1, 2018Dan2 min read1 comment

Our Adventure Proper Begins – 01/05/18 It feels like a hell of a long time since we moved out of our house to start our adventure, February 9th 2018 to be precise! Our original plan was to be heading off on 1st March, however, given that my wrist fracture wasn’t diagnosed until then and various treatments tried and failed, then my knee injury not confirmed until nearly the end of April we thought we would give the motorhome (Moho) a proper try out in the UK to iron out any issues with the van and adapting to Moho life in a gradual way during that time. For the 3 months between us moving out  of our house and now, we have been split between staying at my parents in Nottingham, Lorraine’s Parents in Portsmouth and the occasional night at friends houses , interspersed with camping at various sites in the UK, which we will (Hopefully) at some point get around to adding to the blog. So, now it all begins. This is blog post No.1 of what we hope, many more to come. It seems...

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