The day starts with a serious chat with the kids, why they must not mess about at bedtime since we've got a long time left to go and it only makes everyone grumpy. I'm sure it will have zero impact bu...

This morning we had a very lazy start to the day following a couple of late nights for the kids. Although we stayed in Belgium we were right on the border with the Netherlands so a quick 15 minute dri...

We manage to sleep until 8am local time and actually wake up before the kids. After a cosy breakfast on the floor of the van we decide to make the most of our new location and enjoy a morning walk acr...

There's something surreal about actually starting this trip since its been such a long time in the planning stage but today's the day! It's also Liliya's last day at nursery and my last day in the cur...

Can't remember exactly how long ago we decided we would take a month off over the summer but it's hard to believe we're almost ready to go. It's no exaggeration to say we've spent months on our evenin...

A couple more nights to go and we start our first long adventure in our new campervan; 16 nights to go up North and travel round (most of) the NC500, a 500 mile route around the north coast of Scotlan...