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Q: What do you call a camel with three humps?
A: Humphrey.
A few days ago, I promised to let you in on our recently made travel plans. Here’s the first one: A month backpacker tour of Morocco, starting mid-March. In addition to a selection of the big cities, we’re also planning to “go wild” with some [...]

Here’s where it gets a bit more exciting folks — we appreciate that us sitting [more-or-less] on our bums in a Spanish apartment might not have made gripping reading for you over the last few months.
Actually, I’ve got to tell you that it’s not quite been all sitting on our fannies (for our American readers. [...]

After 5 months it’s back to work for me! Well, for 2 hours a week anyway: I need to break myself in gently. Thanks to a small language school in a nearby town, I’m teaching English to a class of 12-14 year old Spanish kids in the evening. The school is very relaxed and the [...]

In direct contrast to my recent entry, the comments facility on this blog is still not working properly. You may have tried to leave a comment recently: Whilst the comment that you enter is recorded ok, the ‘loading page’ image in your browser never stops ’spinning’.
Two of the, erm, greatest IT minds are working on [...]

Quite a few people have reported to us the problems they with leaving comments on this blog.
I’m really sorry for the frustration that it caused you. Hopefully, I’ve fixed the problem now — so please do try leaving us a comment (and let me know if you still get problems).

From our planned route map, you’ll know that we were planning to drive to the foot of Italy and then ferry-across to Sicily, then Sardinia, before landing on the French mainland in Marseilles to begin our long drive to south-east Spain. We’ve got to get to Spain by mid-November as we’ve already paid for flights [...]

I’m learning more and more about our bus; more and more things are going wrong! This is to be expected, I guess, as we don’t really know its history. We got our fuel leak fixed and also I had the fuel filter changed at the same time. Oh and the fuses keep popping out of [...]

What with writing so many entries and not finding internet access in the rural areas that we’ve been travelling, this blog is lagging behind reality by about a week. To make up for this, we’ll be publishing more of our already-written entries than usual over the next week to catch-up.
Our hope is to be able [...]

Tired of the unpredictable British weather that we’re having this summer, we’ve decided to postpone the tour of our glorious country until another year and instead run to the sun in Europe. We’ve updated our planned route map to reflect our route which will cover:

North East France: The Champagne region.
Switzerland
Most of Italy, top to bottom
Sicily
Sardinia [...]