And then they went to Venice. For as long as I’ve known Minty she has wanted to visit Venice. We’ve driven by a few times on our way to somewhere else. We haven’t stopped. Then came the virus. The world’s most popular tourist spots are suffering like everywhere else. There hasn’t been a quieter time […]
Author: Kelvin Collins
Border crossing – Croatia.
Border crossing – Croatia. So many border crossings happen by motorway. It’s boring. But it’s easy. It was slow entering Croatia, but given it’s a border into the comfort blanket of the EU it was no worse than expected. There were a few questions. A guard took a quick look into the back of the […]
Serbia by camper van – try it!
Coming down the mountain. The roads here are nowhere near as bad as we’d been led to believe. When we lived on Beech Road in Manchester we were used to worse, I’d put them on a par with Italy and Greece. After two nights outside the ski resort of Kopaonik we filled ArchieVan’s tanks, and […]
Border crossing – Serbia.
No comments. Apologies. We suffered a site hiccup last week and the comments section of the blog was hidden until Wednesday. We love getting reader’s comments so we were disappointed. Thankfully our friends at Bronco fixed the issue and all should be working well again. Border crossing. Serbia. The Vrska Cuka border was quiet. Its […]
Back on the road. Bulgaria.
Last week after Plovdiv and high in the oh so green Rhodope Mountains it was down, down, down from the mountains and the temperature climbed up and up in the plains. ArchieVan stutters. Suddenly the van, which hasn’t missed a beat for sixty six thousand miles, started to stutter and loose power. We had about […]
Plovdiv. Bulgaria’s finest?
Bears and other beauties. Last week we left you at the Dancing Bears Sanctuary, high in the Rila Mountains above Belista and about to start one of the great drives of our lives. It’s a slow start. The first few kms were on a track, and when the tarmac started there wasn’t enough room to […]