Describe your dream vacation.
Bonus: describe your last vacation. (extra-bonus, is to compare your dream vacation to your last one).
I’m training up for my dream holiday, which will take place in 2012. It will be a long trip around Europe in my camper van Bongo Little.
I will cross the Channel from England in April travel slowly through rural France to Gallacia, the Atlantic side of northern Spain, through coastal Portugal around the coast of Spain.
France
Then France again, Spain, Italy, Croatia up to Berlin then north to Copenhagen and back down the coast through Germany, Holland and Belgium coming home for bonfire night in November.
Last year I had a reasonable time with my van enjoying the rural area around the south coast of England and camped for a time close to a stone age fort, close to Stonehenge – (hint spend more time at the nearby Avebury Ring – it’s so much more mystical and you can touch the stones).
I then travelled up to Scotland and spent a month near Edinburgh to enjoy the amazing festival – 5,000+ perfomances and pubs open 24 hours.
Coming back I had an amazing drive in the border between Scotland and England going across the hills using an old smuggling road – never seeing another car for over an hour and a half – something that’s almost impossible in the UK.
Hadrian's wall
I then had a few days exploring Hadrian’s wall – built by the Roman’s to separate the Empire from the Scots and Picts.
Then disaster – my engine blew up and I was stuck until 3 in the morning in a remote spot by a lake until the tow truck arrived.
This year I’ll be travelling through the remoter parts of England, Wales and Scotland in preparation for my longer trip the next year.
I now have mobile broadband and a good notebook computer so I can keep my blogging going.
Anyone interested in photos of my travels can flick through my albums on Picasa.