Author Archives: dave

The day after our hospital trip the Spits family came to visit us at the campsite as arranged earlier in the week. We met the spits family in Italy almost two months ago at Camping Arizona . The Spits family had heard of Camping Da Paal before but never been, so this was their chance […]

After Brugge in Belgium we headed back to our camper that was waiting patiently for us. Its amazing how it has taken three months of camping for us to get fully organised with the camper. We are finally at a balance of stuff that we have taken and it all seems to fit so well […]

On the 13th September we headed from Holland to Belgium to Brugge (Bruges in English) to meet up with Scott, Ains, Peanut (Ains bump), Carl, Vick, Will and Dougie. We rented a very nice and very stylish 19th Century terrace house in the centre of Brugge with cobbled streets out the front and a very […]

We left Germany for a four hour drive north to Holland (Netherlands) to a campsite called Camping Da Paal that had a special on for the entire month of September you could stay for €220! Which is the cheapest camping that we have had yet and not only this but it is the best campsite […]

After Sweden we had four more nights in Germany, we really like the Rhine area and there were many castles and walks that we wanted to do. But the best plans never mean you actually get to do them. The weather was very poor, cold and wet and when the rain stopped we were too […]

This is a special post for the very kind family (Schelgel’s) who gave up a seat for us on our flight back from Sweden. It was a very crowded plane and this very kind family shuffled a few seats for us so that we could all sit together. This was Charlottes fourth time in a […]

Friday saw us on our marathon mission again, to leave Gotland and find our campsite in Bredang (about 20 mins by tube out of Stockholm). We managed to find it, and are taking advantage of their wireless access for internet here. We have rented a little (and I mean little!) room, with bunk beds and […]

A huge thankyou to Emma and Charlie, Jen and Will for a great time altogether in Gotland. It was so nice being with you all and we had a wonderful time. Our movie ideas (involving Arnie!), our Yatzee nights, Lobster party, singing crazy nursery rhymes and all the physical activities (daily baseball and football games, […]

During out time with Emma and Charlie, Matilde and Charlotte had plenty of time to ‘catch up!’. I have put a few pics here – really because they are so cute! There was plenty of eye gouging, hair and ear pulling, food stealing, clambering over and on top of, as well as sharing, caring, giggling […]

Emma and I wanted to go horseback riding. We had wanted to go in the Uk but ran out of time…. now was our chance! The neighbour where we were staying had a couple of horses for her daughter, but she recommended some stable that she said were really worthwhile. So we called and booked. […]