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Continue reading →: Day 2 – to just outside BayonneDay 2 – to just outside Bayonne Just a couple of times I questioned my decision of packing so much driving into the first few days. That was to have been four, but now is three thanks to the fortune with the earlier Eurotunnel crossing. My reasoning had been to…
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Continue reading →: Day 1 – to AbbevilleTransCantabrica 2023 – the old ways Day 1 – to Abbeville Whatever slant you try to put on it the motorway journey down through England is pretty uninspiring. My usual plan to stop overnight at Brill was shelved this time, as the Folkestone vets, from where I collect Roja’s certificate,…
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Continue reading →: Best of 2022
Best of 2022 World Fiction 5 – Hunter With Harpoon by Markoosie Patsuaq – translated from the Inuit by Valerie Henituik 4 – The Sky Above The Roof by Natalie Appanah – translated from the French (Mauritius) by Geoffrey Strachan 3 – Of Saints and Miracles by Manuel Astur –…
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Continue reading →: Day 101 – to Bampton GrangeDay 101 – to Bampton Grange I sat down to some dinner last night on the Channel coast and it was windy and wild. In a flash of inspiration I changed my crossing from 8.20 am to 4.20 am, and had an early night. There was no charge to move…
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Continue reading →: Day 100 – to GravelinesDay 100 – to Gravelines Two driving stints split by taking the Tyne Cot walking route at Passchendaele. The Bornem was an excellent stop, and one I will certainly use again. It’s a small town, but several vibrant pubs. I visited two, both of them very friendly, and no surprise,…
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Continue reading →: Day 99 – to Bornem, BelgiumDay 99 – to Bornem, Belgium Roja still can’t get his head around the hour going back. So it was earlier than usual up this morning, but after a night disturbed by an elderly and frail pair of mosquitos who had found their way into the van and avoided my…
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Continue reading →: Day 98 – to Sittensen, GermanyDay 98 – to Sittensen, Germany A Czech guy who was parked next to me came over for a chat last night, and we ended up having a beer together. He had been fishing, and had been quite successful. He is part of a group of six who have rented…
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Continue reading →: Day 97 – to Houens OddeDay 97 – to Houens Odde Back to the Baltic this morning, though I am at the section where it connects to the North Sea. The mist of yesterday had cleared, but still the temperatures were up way above normal. This peninsula, at Trelde Næs, is renowned because of its…
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Continue reading →: Day 96 – to Trelde NæsDay 96 – to Trelde Næs Living on the road my friend Was gonna keep you free and clean And now you wear your skin like iron And your breath as hard as kerosene Appropriate words for day 96, though I will try and get access to a sauna and…
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Continue reading →: Day 95 – to Mols Bjerge National ParkDay 95 – to Mols Bjerge National Park I’m on a mission to find Danish hills, not easy as the country’s highest point is only 171 metres, and marked solely by a rock on a grassy meadow. Rebild is such a place though, a place of hills. It’s a National…
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SafeReturnDoubtful is my alias. Rua is my fox red labrador pup, born 14 Feb 2026 and learning fast..
Where is Rua?
I was so much older then…
Quote of the Week
Alice asked the Cheshire Cat, who was sitting in a tree, ‘What road do I take?’ The cat asked, ‘Where do you want to go?’ ‘I don’t know,’ Alice answered. ‘Then,’ said the cat, ‘it really doesn’t matter, does it?’
Lewis Carroll
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