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| Our latest recruit |
So the touring season is nearly upon as and we cannot wait to get going. One of the consequences of running a tour business is that the van is in use all year. so we have not really had to winter-down the motorhome or bring it back to life - it just sits there on the drive ready to go!
Admittedly there has been a bit of "Autoglym" applied and we are training our youngest grandson how to apply "Simoniz Back to Black" on the bumper (see photo).
The closed season has seen quite a bit of ebay activity and we are looking forward to using the new low wattage kettle and toaster (Wendy's idea) and the new step ladders to get the bikes off (my idea).
Our first trip of the season is Springtime in France tour, which we will run every year even if we are the only people on it! We find that Springtime is a great time to motorhome generally. The weather is on the turn and the campsites are all still fairly quiet. Paris is particularly appealing (and dare I say Romantic) at this time of year and there should be plenty of activity (in terms of flowers rather than romance) in the Tuileries near the Louvre and a little further out in the Luxembourg Gardens, which are our favourite.
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| Daffs at Keukenhof |
We have been keeping a close eye on the daffodil situation is Holland for our trip there later in the month. Apparently the first one popped out in February, so we are hopeful of another grand display this year.
Well it's been ages since we last blogged. In fact we hadn't realised just how long ago it has been. 2015 to be precise!
That's not to say that we have been doing nothing since then. After we had been to the NEC, we headed straight off to recce a few new sites for our Alps Tour and for our Croatia & Slovenia Tour.
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| Lake Bled |
Those of you who are coming with us to the Alps will be pleased to know that our two main sites in Austria exceeded all our expectations. Both and 5-star, amazingly well-equipped and both with superb restaurants. So much so that we have organised a group meal in each location!
It turns out that Croatia and Slovenia are very, very quiet in October and November. We literally had the place to ourselves and were often the only van on the some of the campsites we stayed on. We are really looking forward to getting back there in September when it will be a bit warmer and everything will be open!
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| The Austrian Alps |
The thing that most struck us in Slovenia and Croatia is how much of a contrast you get when you move from town to city to coast to countryside. It really is a very varied experience including some mountain driving in the Julian Alps (though nothing to worry about).
So apologies for the long delay. We have been very busy booking up campsites and ferries, writing tour packs and doing lots of boring paperwork. We will be really pleased to get out and about doing what we love at the start of April.
We are now producing a newsletter every month and Wendy will be hammering Facebook once the season starts and we have lots of lovely to photos to share with the world.
