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by keef & annie hellinger 16 May 2022, 6.23 a.m. Motorhome trip No50 : May 13th- 15th 2022 NOTTS->Waterclose Meadows Campsite, Houghton Mill, Cambridgeshire ->NOTTS 187 miles MENU Intro Panorama's A Selection of Pictures Full Slideshow Diary Audio Diary End Tags etc Intro This was our third trip to Houghton & Wyton staying at the National Trust's Waterclose Meadows campsite positioned right next to the River Ouse, Cambridgeshire and the still working flour mill aptly named H

by keef & annie hellinger 6 May 2022, 5.53 a.m. MENU Intro Image with Stats Mileage New page about our Wendy House Trips Tags, Comments etc INTRO You know what I'm like with numbers, just can't help myself, got 'em running around in my head #insomnia #upearly So I thought I would spreadsheet (is that a verb?) 😉the trips we have made so far in our lovely Volkswagen Autosleeper Clubman Anniversary motorhome in the 10 years we have had it. We will of course be keeping it forev

by keef & annie hellinger 2 May 2022, 8.52 a.m. INFO UPDATE NOTE this supersedes any advice given in earlier blogs when previous Blog development tools were used. All of those blogs will be retrospectively updated to that effect and will point to this blog. From 2nd May 2022 this is the definitive method for finding what you want. SEARCH FACILITIES AVAILABLE List of Blogs Dropdowns INDEXES dropdown BLOG dropdown BIG TRIPS dropdown Hashtags The END Hope it helps you find what

by keef & annie hellinger 15 April 2022, 9.51 a.m. Motorhome trip No 49 : 30th March – 14th April 2022 NOTTS->The North Coast 500 route and Isle of Mull with Friends, Scotland ->NOTTS 1633 miles Use the MENU #hintsandtips time suggestion do the NC500 clockwise, that way you are always on the coastal side in wester ross and Sutherland, which in our humble opinion are the best bits scenery wise, means on single track you are not crossing the road for your photo opportunities,

by keef & annie hellinger 19 March 2022, 11.03 a.m. Motorhome trip No 48 : 18th March 2022 NOTTS->Leicestershire, The Heart of Rural England, and a little bit of Warwickshire ->NOTTS 96 miles MENU Diary Map Slideshows with Audio Audio Diary Google Map Images A lovely sunny day out in the rural heart of England. After the frost has melted away about 11 a.m. we started to untie the strapping on the cover on the van, well rested and SORN’ed over winter. Time for Wendy to come ba

By keef and annie hellinger, Feb 23 2022 18.31 pm This diary accompanied the BLOG 167 and an audiobook version of it is available on the BIG TRIPS page on this website. We are now on Soundcloud for all our audiobooks but if you wish to listen to the Diary rather than read it please click HERE MENU Go to 1. Malaysia 2. New Zealand 3. Australia 4. Singapore 5. Audiobook AUSTRALIA MENU Australia, All States & Territories except Queensland, Northern & Australian Capital one visit

By keef and annie hellinger, Feb 20 2022 15.41 pm This diary accompanied the BLOG 167 and an audiobook version of it is available on the BIG TRIPS page on this website. We are now on Soundcloud for all our audiobooks but if you wish to listen to the Diary rather than read it please click HERE Whilst camping in New Zealand we joined the following two organisations which saved us a lot of money, these site clubs were called Top 10 and Kiwi Holiday Parks campsites. Just a though

By keef and annie hellinger, Feb 17 2022 10.00 am Can I help other motorhomers? and / or family businesses just a thought #hintsandtips The HOME of Great Web Site design for all your Small Businesses I started my long standing love of web site development way back in 2008 soon after we had returned from our Gap Year after taking early retirement. I had just spent circa 40 years in IT from lowly computer operator to senior consultant and all points in between. My first site wa

By keef and annie hellinger, Dec 30 2021 14.35 pm Frontier I find it interesting that most if not all autotrail vans have 1st nation names, what when i was younger inspired the many cowboy and indians B movies I watched on a Saturday afternoon in black and white #humour When we first started looking for motorhomes to buy after having extensively hired them (which I can whole heartedly advise... motorhoming in cramped spaces is NOT for everyone) #hintsandtips we were looking a

By keef and annie hellinger, Dec 7 2021 6.50 am Time to have a drastic rethink on my old HOLIDAY sites, all 4 of them. There is a lot of key history in them all from our lovely long trips post retirement. No way would I wish to lose that history SO.......... UPDATE Feb 2022. I have now done a whole stack of work to rewrite / redesign ALL of my existing migrated sites , which in fairness were very badly migrated by Yell from Moonfruit to WIX i.e missing pages / DNS issues etc

By keef and annie hellinger, Dec 6 2021 17.43 pm This is a retrospective Blog, we were away between 22nd January and 23rd April 2013. Suggestion use the BIG TRIP maps to scale in and out if you wish Use the MENU please Another big trip featuring hired motorhomes but this time including the fabulous wedding of our son Doug and his beautiful bride Phoenix plus in Australia we stayed with our niece Hannah and her hubby in Sydney as well as visiting lifelong friend Chris's daught

By keef and annie hellinger, Dec 3 2021 15.16 pm This is a retrospective Blog, we were away between 31st January and 14th June 2017. We went to Singapore for 2 weeks with family, C&A for 3 days in Hong Kong at the end of the trip, twas so sad parting at the end of a lovely almost 5 months. MENU Go to 1. Summary 2. Calendars 3. Diary Part 1, Jan-Feb 2017 4. Diary Part2, March 2017 5. Diary Part3, April - June 2017 5a. Audiobooks of the Diaries if you would prefer 6. Campsites

By keef and annie hellinger, Dec 3 2021 14.22 pm This is a retrospective Blog, we were away between 22nd January and 23rd April 2013. 92 glorious days on what we affectionately termed our "3rd holiday of a lifetime" well in print at least. Suggestion use the BIG TRIP maps to scale in and out if you wish Another big trip featuring hired motorhomes but this time including the fabulous wedding of our son Doug and his beautiful bride Phoenix plus in Australia we stayed with our n

By keef and annie, Nov 16 2021012 06:45PM This is what we said back in 2012, we say it again in 2021 Greetings from Keef & Annie. We plan to use this blog to document our travels in our Motorhome documenting via photo and video what we have seen but also sharing hints and tips along the way. We have already spent a lot of time in motorhomes travelling The Pacific Islands, NZ & Australia for almost a year in 2007/8 and from one side of Canada to the other in 2010. All of these

By guest, Feb 22 2012 06:45PM Greetings from Keef & Annie. We plan to use this blog to document our travels in our Motorhome documenting via photo and video what we have seen but also sharing hints and tips along the way. We have already spent a lot of time in motorhomes travelling The Pacific Islands, NZ & Australia for almost a year in 2007/8 and from one side of Canada to the other in 2010. All of these trips were in "hire" motorhomes, but now we have embarked on getting o

By keef & annie, Aug 15 2012 11:42AM Thinking of taking a motorhome or RV tour abroad? Maybe Canada, Oz, Argentina, Iceland, Faroe islands, Scandinavia, American West, New Zealand..... There are a few of those we haven't done yet but would love to However by 2021 the only one we have not done is any motorhoming in South America, now there is a target There are some talks on each of these at the up and coming Motorhome & Caravan Show at Birmingham which could be a useful ins

By keef and annie hellinger, Nov 17 2015 12:40PM Motorhome trip No25 : November 13th – 16th 2015 NOTTS->Bletchingdon, Cherwell Oxfordshire, 2 sites Diamond Farm Park and Greenhill Farm plus village visits to Stanton St John, Weston on Green, Kirtlington, Islip, Kidlington (Hmm!) and other Cotswold stone villages ->NOTTS 232 miles Lovely time initially for the 1st 2 days with our dear friends Pete & Joy at Diamond Farm Caravan park in Bletchington, a private campsite with po

By keef and annie hellinger, Jul 11 2016 01:08PM Motorhome trip No27 : May 8th- July 8th 2016 NOTTS->Scandinavia ->NOTTS 6140 miles Feel free to use the MENU to find specifics This was the longest trip so far in our lovely Wendy house of a van, she “dun great” the whole trip…. Up hill, down dale and along the flat! 10 ferries, numerous islands, bridges and tunnels, 61 days, 6 countries, from the fjords to the Russian border, 44 campsites, 6140 miles and a few tanks of dies