Tag: Europe

Switzerland

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I adored Switzerland. There were chimney’s that looked like houses. Wooden rocking horses in public parks. Heated floors. Crisp air. Raclette : ). Hot red sunsets. Pumpkins on windowsills. Outdoor springs and shooting stars… The best part was visiting our [...]

Entrevaux

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I don’t really want to tell you where this is… I want to keep it a secret! It was an unexpected little beauty on some awfully rocky, narrow, windy, steep highway through the mountains between Nice and Chamonix. It was [...]

Carcassone

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We spent a whole day walking through the fortified city of Carcassone, it’s quiet cobbled streets and stone towers. I had the most hearty three course french meal for lunch {vegetable soup, duck a l’orange and chocolate mousse} at a quaint [...]

Andorra

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Once we arrived in Andorra we were feeling pretty stir crazy. We had spent four weeks in our van and it had been rainy and cold for days. Nothing was dry, we couldn’t do too much outside, our gas bottle had [...]

All the roads ahead

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For some reason, in the UK, international drivers whose occupation is ‘photographer’ (among 10 other random occupations; Journalist, Diplomat, High Profile Athlete) cannot get insurance to drive a car they have purchased over there. Maybe it is because we spend [...]

Mundaka

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The drive along the coastline from San Sebastian to Mundaka was a drive I could do again and again and find many more pictures to take each time. Jagged cliff faces dropped straight into the ocean and steep valleys circled [...]

San Sebastian

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It was a grey day as we practised our limited Spanish and headed into the Basque country of northern Spain. You couldn’t see the mountains for the rain when we arrived, but the next morning the sun broke out and we [...]

Favourites from our first week in France

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There were so many pretty, old towns as we drove from the north to the south-west of France.  I especially loved reading the cottage names; Le Bungalow, Le Chene, Floretica … and trying to guess what they might mean or [...]

Biarritz

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After the cold, cold nights in Amsterdam & Belgium we finally caught up to some glorious summer-ish weather on the west coast of France, in Biarritz. We walked the coastline with bright eyes and a skip in our step… No [...]

My first frost

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Ice crystals line the edges of all the leaves lying in the mid-morning shade of the mountains. Beautiful.  

Making our way round

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It’s a lovely night outside tonight, the moon is high and full. It’s 11.30pm, we’ve been drinking Bailey’s and researching some of our next moves along the coast. I’m standing outside our camper in the dark, in my thermals trying to [...]

Hedgehogs and chocolate waffles in Amsterdam

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Amsterdam has been one of my favourite places so far. I loved peering into people’s windows from the street and seeing glimpses of paint-brushes, unfinished artworks and people’s cool nik-naks. I loved the chocolate covered waffles… even better once warmed [...]

Walking through the old city of Bruges

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Horses clip-clopped on the cobblestones, locals zoomed around on their bikes and I ate a whole bag of delicious dark chocolate as we walked the streets of the old Bruges city. We found a cosy corner in a hostel selling [...]

Apple Day at Calke Abbey

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Nestled in the luscious countryside of Ticknall, Derbyshire is the fascinating treasure chest of Calke Abbey. There is so much history within this country-house estate and the families, who inhabited it and contributed to it from 1704 for three centuries, [...]

Norway {week 2}

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Today I’m sitting in a laundromat (the unglamorous side to travelling!) in Arcachon, on the West Coast of France uploading these Norway pics to you – it seems like so long ago now. Norway reminded me of those paintings you [...]

Norway (sneak peak)

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I promise a load of pictures from beautiful Norway, England and Belgium… soon! I can’t keep up with how much I’ve been photographing. This is one of my favourites from Norway.    

Scotland {week 1}

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It’s been 10 days and there’s a back-log of pictures already! It’s been hard to find the time to process all the images I’ve been taking as there’s so much to see outside. Last week we were in the tiny [...]