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

      While we never considered a permanent move we have often considered the merits of owning a holiday home in a warmer climate but to date we still enjoy van life or our version of it but we have not ruled it out sometime in the future .It would probably be a good topic for one of my blogs to explore the merits of both to help us decide one way or the other. Our latest trip was to visit our good friends who were brave enough to pack up and move to Spain permanently last October.     Nine years ago on a campsite in Andorra De Ville while planing to spectate at a stage of La Vuelta the Spanish cycling tour I mistakenly pulled onto the wrong pitch. This sparked a conversation with a very reserved Dutch man who I now know to be called Tom and his bubbly partner Con who had booked the very pitch we were standing on. We hit it off right away after a bit of banter it was agreed that we would stay where we were and they would find another  pitch  ...

 After our usual winter brake from the motorhome and with our winter sun trips out of the way it was time to get the van back on the road. I took the van from the yard back to the side of the house so we could give the van a good spring clean there were no winter mods this year so just the usual top to toe clean.With work and the cold wet spell to be honest I was lacking a bit of motivation to actually go anywhere.I did eventually bite the bullet loaded the mountain bike into the garage and spend a night in Carlingford on my own. Polly was working nights so was not available, it was as bleak as I thought it would be for a Wednesday night in march I was the only van on the marina that night ! I did however enjoy a pint and a chat with some locals in Juniors Bar up near the church at the top of the village. The following morning  I had a nice couple of hours in the hills on the bike I got caught in the rain and had to cut my spin short .... but as they say the worst day in the v...