THE LAST OF THE BOOMERS... MOTORHOME ADVENTURES AND MORE

 As we both work in the service industry it is very unusual for both Polly and myself to be off for a bank holiday weekend . But that's what was on the cards for the October weekend  we decided it would be a good idea to take off in the van  Friday to Monday to see how the other half live as most of our touring is done midweek this was going to be a real novelty .   After a quick fiddle about on the internet it was clear that most places were booked up but we did manage to book Tollymore Forest Park for the Friday night but after that we would be winging it .The term "WINGING IT" will figure regularly in this blog as this is our preferred mode ,we often travel this way  it is one of the attractions of van live for us just take off and see there the road will take you . After the usual faffing about we managed to get on the road on Friday afternoon. I set the satnav for Tollymore it was showing one and a half hours about 100km all going well .Off we went , it was our first

 Hello and welcome to my first post of my brand new blog , I am Marty married to the lovely Polly we are a couple of baby boomers just coming into our 60s with an empty nest so hopefully we will have a bit more time to take some more and longer trips, over the past 14 years we have winged our way around Ireland and Europe in our motorhomes but we never really kept a log of our trips so this blog is an effort to help keep track of our travels and maybe help and encourage our fellow travellers along the way.   Over the years particularly during the covid time we have watched the RV community grow, with that growth we have seen some improvement in the services available for motorhomes although they can still be patchy, we have a long way to go to catch up with our European cousins where motorhomes a well catered for, in-spite of one or two notable exception county councils in Ireland and the tourist board just don't get the potential in motorhome tourism in many cases putting more eff