my ipod say that ive made more enties but now that im on a REAL computer the blog says that ive not made an entry since the 1st of june;;;;;;; well foloowers ive made many since then and i tell you i cant recap cos my memory is like a goldfish.
Ive had my 62nd birthday der where did all those years go?
We are at the end of our little trip and we are at my daughters and family in france and leaving tomorrow for our final journey home.
Sam, my son-in-law thinks that i have a shit fetish and my language is disgusting as well as my spelling (and grammar).........fuck him and his family...whooops thats me too;
Ive onlytold it how it has been and as for my spelling ive been using my i pod which has tinykeys and my fingers are like walls pork sausages so maybe i press the wrong keysd AND im a shit speller but that dont make me a bad person.
Well where was i oh yea;; the 1st of june
drove over the alps back into france into breancon. the van is a dream its so old but the engine is marvellous.... sounds a bit like me the outside is rotting but the engine is full of life
Parked outside the odl ozn along wit the truckers and the posh rv.s with their tv.s. cooked another great dinner and sunk a bottle of champagne.Had to use one of those electronic lavs I hate them always think they gonna open in the most inappropiate
places (fetish stuff again Sam)
Sam is hanging over me typing this and is hassling me to do capital letters etc....fuck off sam its a blog not a fucking piece of prose......
as i was saying over the alps into france........ bloody rain following us.
Syayed the night in a municipal camp site full of old whooops elderly people farting and limping to the lavs...makes a change than us.....
next night bloody lovely turned off the road found a quiet place by a like and cooked mussles and chips to sheilas delight then zent for a walk in long grass me wiv my docs on and sheila in her sandles i forgot to mention that france unlike Ireland has snakes hahahahahhaha
after hours and hours and bloody hours arrived in Porniche to the camp site that my daughter told us to go to.
Thunder and lightening came with us.
Kelly and family joined us for 4 days which quite emptied the site or maybe the elderys were moving anyway.
So now we are nearly up to date
Have had a drive around at kellys,
to a chateau a market and pretty clean towns and villages, and experienced a very embarrasing moment in a patisserie
was pointing out to the woman what cakes i wanted and she walked in front of me as i was pointing to a tqawith berries on and she bent down and my finger pocked her arse hole ooolala i said and thankfully she laughed.
gonna be leaving tomorrow sometime and we will have 3 days to do 300 miles. which with sheila navigating might take us around the block hahahhaha
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
22nd losing track ofwhen i last logged in and what i told you about. so if ive reported on this sorry folks.....here we are in thesun in croatia andpulled up at a little cove wivacoupleof barsin ah.....and parked van right neextto see. (not gonna correct all these typing errors too lazy) bliss and peacetill 1am when a drunken crowd of kids camealong and were screaching and having a larf woke us up and then they went then another they went then another they went then another......no hassle to us justnoisy so wedroveoffat 4am and parked along the road outside a caf.
i woke early had milky coffee and a shit in his lav butoh no........no water to flush, i wasright embarrased, but even more so when after my 2nd cup of coffee he came out all smiles and said he had put water in the lavand sorted it out for me and hewassmiling. DIRTY LITTLE FUCKER
23RD.
booked into camp site for a good nights sleep found a good pitchby thesea and drove the same time a woman and her sonwalked onto it, and i tell you i would have arm wrestled her for the pitch but this woman was not for turning so despite dirty looks and mutterings our van was not for turning,
a good nights sleep was had and by the morning mycharm had won her over and she was all smiles.....sheila reckoned it was because we were movingout.
24th THE ROAD TO DUBROVNIC
other than the road from Killarney to Kenmare in ireland the road to dubrovnic is the most beautiful rr ive driven...turquise sea island and mountains andthe road was high and twisty
25TH FUCK VENICE
as the book says THE PEARL OF THE ADRIATIC the old town is something else
od venice is rich in history, shakespear, death in venice, see venice and die, well go and see dubrovnic its stupendous, magnificent, marble streets baroque buildings but forget about the squaretoo many tourists (i know so are we) we alked up to the top where people live and had dinner in a lazzie restaraunt called lady pepe...
27th GOODBYE CROATIA ALO ITALY
We weregonna stay longer but there were only 2 sailings to bari and so we left on the overnight crossing. arrivedin bari 7.30am drove along coastrd hadbreakfast then picked up our road inland..........well i thought we had ppicked up our road
Ni idea what happened to sheilas navigation skills but i reckon we did over 200 miles out of our way......we went up 3 mountains the last one cos she thought the town ( a dead end cos it was on the topof the mountain) was on our route and it was called angelo the same name as her bleeding dog!!!!anyway not only 3 mountains but 3 hours of that was through thick forest, fuck deforestation cut em down it was .
dark and i felt i was somewhere between hell and hell if i had had a chain saw i
would have felled them all myself
Needless to say we survived found the sea and stayed there for 3 nights bliss
COVER ME IN DOLCELATTE AND FEED ME TO THE ITALIAN LESBIANS
OH the cheese orgasmic i ate it till i felt sick cholesteral level high whogives a fuck
30th may In umbria slept on the shoreof lago trasimento and left for sienna.
Bumped into 2 women i know through sarah in whitstablehow funny is thatand they said i looked ITALIAN!!!
31ST Lost again, ah sheila its hard cos i tell you when i get home im gonna do a book on the road maps of italy im gonna write it and drawit myself the beach sheila was directing meto turned about to be a concrete mariner belongingto the navy hahahhahahaha so we parked up near venice and we are leaving today
hope all is well with you lot xxxx
i woke early had milky coffee and a shit in his lav butoh no........no water to flush, i wasright embarrased, but even more so when after my 2nd cup of coffee he came out all smiles and said he had put water in the lavand sorted it out for me and hewassmiling. DIRTY LITTLE FUCKER
23RD.
booked into camp site for a good nights sleep found a good pitchby thesea and drove the same time a woman and her sonwalked onto it, and i tell you i would have arm wrestled her for the pitch but this woman was not for turning so despite dirty looks and mutterings our van was not for turning,
a good nights sleep was had and by the morning mycharm had won her over and she was all smiles.....sheila reckoned it was because we were movingout.
24th THE ROAD TO DUBROVNIC
other than the road from Killarney to Kenmare in ireland the road to dubrovnic is the most beautiful rr ive driven...turquise sea island and mountains andthe road was high and twisty
25TH FUCK VENICE
as the book says THE PEARL OF THE ADRIATIC the old town is something else
od venice is rich in history, shakespear, death in venice, see venice and die, well go and see dubrovnic its stupendous, magnificent, marble streets baroque buildings but forget about the squaretoo many tourists (i know so are we) we alked up to the top where people live and had dinner in a lazzie restaraunt called lady pepe...
27th GOODBYE CROATIA ALO ITALY
We weregonna stay longer but there were only 2 sailings to bari and so we left on the overnight crossing. arrivedin bari 7.30am drove along coastrd hadbreakfast then picked up our road inland..........well i thought we had ppicked up our road
Ni idea what happened to sheilas navigation skills but i reckon we did over 200 miles out of our way......we went up 3 mountains the last one cos she thought the town ( a dead end cos it was on the topof the mountain) was on our route and it was called angelo the same name as her bleeding dog!!!!anyway not only 3 mountains but 3 hours of that was through thick forest, fuck deforestation cut em down it was .
dark and i felt i was somewhere between hell and hell if i had had a chain saw i
would have felled them all myself
Needless to say we survived found the sea and stayed there for 3 nights bliss
COVER ME IN DOLCELATTE AND FEED ME TO THE ITALIAN LESBIANS
OH the cheese orgasmic i ate it till i felt sick cholesteral level high whogives a fuck
30th may In umbria slept on the shoreof lago trasimento and left for sienna.
Bumped into 2 women i know through sarah in whitstablehow funny is thatand they said i looked ITALIAN!!!
31ST Lost again, ah sheila its hard cos i tell you when i get home im gonna do a book on the road maps of italy im gonna write it and drawit myself the beach sheila was directing meto turned about to be a concrete mariner belongingto the navy hahahhahahaha so we parked up near venice and we are leaving today
hope all is well with you lot xxxx
Monday, May 24, 2010
storks
there are so many fields of poppys, little ones not the big opium ones loverly...and STORKS. they build their nests on top of chimneys and telegraph and electric poles and the nests are huge and they sit up there obliveous of how daft they look, laughed everytime i passed one they are marvellous and no babies whats that about, who thought up the idea of storks and babies.
les dawsons sister
18th
drove and drove through romania and sad sad sad. the nearer the border the sadder it got ...homes collapsing on people and people looking like theyve collapsed. poverty sucks and the stray dogs so many dead on the roads
got to the border pretty late so sllept in motel carpark opposite the truckers and the woman running the motel when we went in for some food i tell you she could have been les dawsons sister when he was dragged up, if you watch shameless you will know who i mean
got through the border with no problem and it was a relief to leave the sadness behind
still fucking raining
drove and drove through romania and sad sad sad. the nearer the border the sadder it got ...homes collapsing on people and people looking like theyve collapsed. poverty sucks and the stray dogs so many dead on the roads
got to the border pretty late so sllept in motel carpark opposite the truckers and the woman running the motel when we went in for some food i tell you she could have been les dawsons sister when he was dragged up, if you watch shameless you will know who i mean
got through the border with no problem and it was a relief to leave the sadness behind
still fucking raining
another offer
17th may
left for BRASOV today, still in transalvania and i tell you it aint nothing like the dracula films...........doing the buildings up a bit and they are pretty amazing ava look on the web if you want to see.
sheila still a bit sicko so in another hotel and its still lashing down . the hotel backs onto a nature reserve for BEARS and our room on the 5th floor feels as if we are sitting in the trees. staring out the window for so long but no bears no picnics fuckem.
up in the bar and entertained by the hotel manager (we were the only ones there) and he was an old rocker looked more like a over weight london taxi driver than a hotel manager! He was great, full of local knowledge perfect english travelled the world bit of an old druggie and political so had a right chinwag wiv him!! Sheila feeling much better, i think the medicine (beer) has helped.
The manager - sorry cant remember his name said the hotel was full the next night with sports people but we could stay in his suite if we wanted!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lashing all night and morning so decided to leave
left for BRASOV today, still in transalvania and i tell you it aint nothing like the dracula films...........doing the buildings up a bit and they are pretty amazing ava look on the web if you want to see.
sheila still a bit sicko so in another hotel and its still lashing down . the hotel backs onto a nature reserve for BEARS and our room on the 5th floor feels as if we are sitting in the trees. staring out the window for so long but no bears no picnics fuckem.
up in the bar and entertained by the hotel manager (we were the only ones there) and he was an old rocker looked more like a over weight london taxi driver than a hotel manager! He was great, full of local knowledge perfect english travelled the world bit of an old druggie and political so had a right chinwag wiv him!! Sheila feeling much better, i think the medicine (beer) has helped.
The manager - sorry cant remember his name said the hotel was full the next night with sports people but we could stay in his suite if we wanted!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lashing all night and morning so decided to leave
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Boredom and Borders
The pain in my guts from the duck during the night is my penance for eating it.
Sadly we left our new made friends with a promise from me to stay with them in Kiev in September and a maybe from Sheila
Navigating our way to the ROmanian border was difficult as all the writing on the signposts are written in the Cyrillic alphabet which has no resemblance of our own and because neither of us speak Ukranian and hardly anyone speaks English at times we felt bewildered but eventually we made our way there.
We arrived at the Ukraine side and that took a good 2hours to pass through even tho there were only 5 in front of us. We were right excited getting into Romania but that soon wore off as it took another 5 hours to get through their check-point fucking hell what a bore. I had 5pisses on the back of the van and through the bucket contents out (sheila only had 1 she must have a bladder the size of a cows udder!)
Everytime a car went up they had everything out went through it all looked under over and around the vehicle and only 2 guards doing all the work while at least 6 watching madness.
When it eventually came to us I had the usual stuff about the van not in my name but we were eventually passed to the search people which we were dreading cos of the amount we have in the van but when the guard cami in the van he laughed asked us me if I had any drugs (what me officer) or guns hidden(as if I'd tell him if I had) to which I said certainly not and let us through without a search.
Hahahaha little did he know we had contriband on board - 2 large pieces of Parmesan cheese from Italy - not allowed to bring in animal products
It was lashing with rain by then and we were shagged from boredom.
we drove about 3hours over the most appawling roads, pulled up in a town outside a cop shop went out for dinner and had a shit night as the rain was so heavy the noise was deafening.
Left at 6am to make our way to Transalvania
It took ages cos most of the roads are full of crators and they are deep you have to drive around them and lots of train lines to cross over that have no barriers or lights to warn you of oncoming trains CRAZY
On the whole quite a harrowing journey. Most of peoples homes are in bad condition and some falling down and still being lived in GREAT CHURCHES THO (no change there then ay?)
However we are here in Sighisoara the birthplace of Vlad Tepes (Dracula to you)
It's a medieval citadale town, the old bit is up hundreds or seems hundreds of steps with cobbled streets old houses lots of it falling apart and clanging clanging bells oh and its very beautiful and thank fuck its not the tourist season.
Having a bit of luxury after last night and hoteling it in the square up
Here and Sheilas is not feeling too good sore throat and a bit of a fever.
Sicko
Sadly we left our new made friends with a promise from me to stay with them in Kiev in September and a maybe from Sheila
Navigating our way to the ROmanian border was difficult as all the writing on the signposts are written in the Cyrillic alphabet which has no resemblance of our own and because neither of us speak Ukranian and hardly anyone speaks English at times we felt bewildered but eventually we made our way there.
We arrived at the Ukraine side and that took a good 2hours to pass through even tho there were only 5 in front of us. We were right excited getting into Romania but that soon wore off as it took another 5 hours to get through their check-point fucking hell what a bore. I had 5pisses on the back of the van and through the bucket contents out (sheila only had 1 she must have a bladder the size of a cows udder!)
Everytime a car went up they had everything out went through it all looked under over and around the vehicle and only 2 guards doing all the work while at least 6 watching madness.
When it eventually came to us I had the usual stuff about the van not in my name but we were eventually passed to the search people which we were dreading cos of the amount we have in the van but when the guard cami in the van he laughed asked us me if I had any drugs (what me officer) or guns hidden(as if I'd tell him if I had) to which I said certainly not and let us through without a search.
Hahahaha little did he know we had contriband on board - 2 large pieces of Parmesan cheese from Italy - not allowed to bring in animal products
It was lashing with rain by then and we were shagged from boredom.
we drove about 3hours over the most appawling roads, pulled up in a town outside a cop shop went out for dinner and had a shit night as the rain was so heavy the noise was deafening.
Left at 6am to make our way to Transalvania
It took ages cos most of the roads are full of crators and they are deep you have to drive around them and lots of train lines to cross over that have no barriers or lights to warn you of oncoming trains CRAZY
On the whole quite a harrowing journey. Most of peoples homes are in bad condition and some falling down and still being lived in GREAT CHURCHES THO (no change there then ay?)
However we are here in Sighisoara the birthplace of Vlad Tepes (Dracula to you)
It's a medieval citadale town, the old bit is up hundreds or seems hundreds of steps with cobbled streets old houses lots of it falling apart and clanging clanging bells oh and its very beautiful and thank fuck its not the tourist season.
Having a bit of luxury after last night and hoteling it in the square up
Here and Sheilas is not feeling too good sore throat and a bit of a fever.
Sicko
Don't tell anyone
14thmay. We were asked if we wanted to go for a picnic obviously we said "lovely" so we walked across the field, a fire was lit a big pan pan of water was put on it and a cereal that looked like a coss between sago and porridge was pored into it and stirred til it thickened and then seasoning and pickled bits were thrown in and jars of preserved duck and stirred and stirred and then dolloped on plates! I ate it cos I wasn't gonna say oh no thank you I don't eat meat could you do me something else ....no way it was a traditional outdoor meal called HUNTERS PORRIDGE normallyade with what's been murdered that day. It was strange tasting and they said they wouldn't tell anyone I'd eaten it!
An early night as we are off in the morning.
It will be sad to leave them it's a weird experience when you have an instant connection with a person or in this case a whole gang
An early night as we are off in the morning.
It will be sad to leave them it's a weird experience when you have an instant connection with a person or in this case a whole gang
Posh or what
13th may
We left on a convoy the rv in front us in the middle and the fuck off jeep behind. Took about an hour for us to get through the border cos the van wasn't registered in my name but once inside the Ukraine they filled our tank up with diesel and we were off, bloody hell they didn't hang about.
We got to the mountains in a couple of hours and went along little tracks and thinking how lovely to sleep in the van with our new friends next to us but NO! we ended up in this right posh little holiday hotel complex, we were the only ones there other than their friends they had got to come along to meet us...... we were "it" a right novelty,not in a horrible way they think we are wonderful!!!!!!little do they know....
Well we have a gorgeous wood cabin with under floor heating en suite very comfy corner unit sofa,tv,bar Unbelievable. I've had a swim in the very warm outdoor pool, nothing is too much bother what lovely lovely open hearted generous people
Dinner was tasty. And it was shot after shot after shot Chuck chuck
Chuck that's chears chears chears .I was right drunk by the time I fell in bed and sheila too.
We left on a convoy the rv in front us in the middle and the fuck off jeep behind. Took about an hour for us to get through the border cos the van wasn't registered in my name but once inside the Ukraine they filled our tank up with diesel and we were off, bloody hell they didn't hang about.
We got to the mountains in a couple of hours and went along little tracks and thinking how lovely to sleep in the van with our new friends next to us but NO! we ended up in this right posh little holiday hotel complex, we were the only ones there other than their friends they had got to come along to meet us...... we were "it" a right novelty,not in a horrible way they think we are wonderful!!!!!!little do they know....
Well we have a gorgeous wood cabin with under floor heating en suite very comfy corner unit sofa,tv,bar Unbelievable. I've had a swim in the very warm outdoor pool, nothing is too much bother what lovely lovely open hearted generous people
Dinner was tasty. And it was shot after shot after shot Chuck chuck
Chuck that's chears chears chears .I was right drunk by the time I fell in bed and sheila too.
Go with your gut feelings
12th may
We were sitting out at the camp this afternoon
When an enormous fuck off rv turned up accompanied by a the hugest and highest 4x4 jeep I have ever seen. 3 blokes and 3women and younger man got out they looked pissed off with the site and when I smiled at thean who seemed "in charge" there was not much of a responce. So me and sheila went to the van and watched them through the nets! unlike the French who are far more honest and would have stared at them openly........after several minutes when they had settled themselves at
The tables not to be intimidated by such a presence we went to the other table with our beers.
Within minutes we had been invited to their table,drinking back shots of neat sweet rum and sharing their food! Arthur the main couple was 19 and was the interpreter they asked us about our trip and said it would be unheard of in the Ukraine which is where they are from. I told them of my south American trip and that too shocked them and the fact
We were nans was it!
They invited us to go home with them and stay at their hotel all expences paid but we told them it was too far.
However by the time we went to bed we had agreed on a temporary compromise.....we were leaving with them in the morning to go to the Ukraine (it's not even on our list of countries to visit) for 2 days to see the mountains and rivers and breath the fresh air.
We were sitting out at the camp this afternoon
When an enormous fuck off rv turned up accompanied by a the hugest and highest 4x4 jeep I have ever seen. 3 blokes and 3women and younger man got out they looked pissed off with the site and when I smiled at thean who seemed "in charge" there was not much of a responce. So me and sheila went to the van and watched them through the nets! unlike the French who are far more honest and would have stared at them openly........after several minutes when they had settled themselves at
The tables not to be intimidated by such a presence we went to the other table with our beers.
Within minutes we had been invited to their table,drinking back shots of neat sweet rum and sharing their food! Arthur the main couple was 19 and was the interpreter they asked us about our trip and said it would be unheard of in the Ukraine which is where they are from. I told them of my south American trip and that too shocked them and the fact
We were nans was it!
They invited us to go home with them and stay at their hotel all expences paid but we told them it was too far.
However by the time we went to bed we had agreed on a temporary compromise.....we were leaving with them in the morning to go to the Ukraine (it's not even on our list of countries to visit) for 2 days to see the mountains and rivers and breath the fresh air.
Wet wet wet
11th may
A beautiful start to the day and we discovered that right next to our camp site was a cable chair lift that took you up high to a spectacular view over Budapest.so up we went and it went up a long way and you could see for miles. Someone had mentioned that we were fairly near a bordering country so I'm looking out and spots in the distance a building that looks like a border control crossing but no it turns out to be a bloody
TESCO!!! I tell you every bloody road here leads to a tesco or a macdonalds.....put me in a right mood.
So the thermal baths.....off we went to the women only session at the famous Gellert FUrdo baths,an art nouveaue alace it was like- the main bath was under a huge dome which had stained glass skylights in it the bath was large you could swim in it and around the sides in alcoves were small dip
Baths from bloody hot to bloody freezing.there were steam rooms and dry rooms and all with lovely mosaic tiles it was fucking lovely. We both had massages ah ah
THen we left and within minutes it was lashing down and we were not only drenched we got lost and even my Pollyanna attitude couldn't put
A smile on sheilas face. We walked for ages in the torrential rain to the bus and by then it was a full scale storm thunder and lightening we didn't look a pretty site and nor was the camp site on our eventual return it was half under water.
We paddled to the van got dry drank 2 big bottles of beer each and fell asleep.
A beautiful start to the day and we discovered that right next to our camp site was a cable chair lift that took you up high to a spectacular view over Budapest.so up we went and it went up a long way and you could see for miles. Someone had mentioned that we were fairly near a bordering country so I'm looking out and spots in the distance a building that looks like a border control crossing but no it turns out to be a bloody
TESCO!!! I tell you every bloody road here leads to a tesco or a macdonalds.....put me in a right mood.
So the thermal baths.....off we went to the women only session at the famous Gellert FUrdo baths,an art nouveaue alace it was like- the main bath was under a huge dome which had stained glass skylights in it the bath was large you could swim in it and around the sides in alcoves were small dip
Baths from bloody hot to bloody freezing.there were steam rooms and dry rooms and all with lovely mosaic tiles it was fucking lovely. We both had massages ah ah
THen we left and within minutes it was lashing down and we were not only drenched we got lost and even my Pollyanna attitude couldn't put
A smile on sheilas face. We walked for ages in the torrential rain to the bus and by then it was a full scale storm thunder and lightening we didn't look a pretty site and nor was the camp site on our eventual return it was half under water.
We paddled to the van got dry drank 2 big bottles of beer each and fell asleep.
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Back again and at last got this iPod thing working.
After leaving ljubljana we drove to bled. Fucking hell it really is like a picture post card. A town around a lake with an old church ( everywhere you go there is a bloody church most of them beautiful tho) On a little island in the middle and a medieval castle perched on a rock above it.
We walked around the lake and then climbed up to the castle the view from the top made me swell up with tears, not sure if it was the relief of getting to the top without a heart attack or the overwhelming beauty of what met me up the top!looking down on the lake the water looked an emerald green and looking ahead the Julian mountains covered in trees went on and on and with the tops covered with
Snow.........
Thinking we were going into a little bar in the castle we found ourselves walking into a print museum. Where 2 men started to explain the history of tinting and said we could print our own diplomas Saying we had visited there for 7 Euros we couldn't top laughing exlaining we only came in for a beer.
Found a great place overlooking the lake had a shit in a bag and left early in the morning for Hungary.
Sheila navigated us to lake balaton a huge lake 77km long, needless to say we didn't walk around this one! It's a holiday place
With little and not so little houses scattered around it's shores, a peaceful night was had there after eating a fish pie and roast spuds with asparagus - you just can't beat home cooking!
And a handy hint for
The busy lesbian if you don't have an oven glove at hand a panty liner comes in real handy! Panty liners provided by sheila ( don't want to take all the credit)
So here we are 2nans in a van enjoying Budapest getting to know this cosmoplotin city with such diverse influences in it's culture it's architecture and it's people.
We are off to the thermal baths presently apparently they are outside as well, will full you in later
Love to you all x
After leaving ljubljana we drove to bled. Fucking hell it really is like a picture post card. A town around a lake with an old church ( everywhere you go there is a bloody church most of them beautiful tho) On a little island in the middle and a medieval castle perched on a rock above it.
We walked around the lake and then climbed up to the castle the view from the top made me swell up with tears, not sure if it was the relief of getting to the top without a heart attack or the overwhelming beauty of what met me up the top!looking down on the lake the water looked an emerald green and looking ahead the Julian mountains covered in trees went on and on and with the tops covered with
Snow.........
Thinking we were going into a little bar in the castle we found ourselves walking into a print museum. Where 2 men started to explain the history of tinting and said we could print our own diplomas Saying we had visited there for 7 Euros we couldn't top laughing exlaining we only came in for a beer.
Found a great place overlooking the lake had a shit in a bag and left early in the morning for Hungary.
Sheila navigated us to lake balaton a huge lake 77km long, needless to say we didn't walk around this one! It's a holiday place
With little and not so little houses scattered around it's shores, a peaceful night was had there after eating a fish pie and roast spuds with asparagus - you just can't beat home cooking!
And a handy hint for
The busy lesbian if you don't have an oven glove at hand a panty liner comes in real handy! Panty liners provided by sheila ( don't want to take all the credit)
So here we are 2nans in a van enjoying Budapest getting to know this cosmoplotin city with such diverse influences in it's culture it's architecture and it's people.
We are off to the thermal baths presently apparently they are outside as well, will full you in later
Love to you all x
Thursday, May 6, 2010
two nans in a van
well family and friends this is the first chance to be get an internet connection and we have been away a while me and sheila that is, so heres the load down......
it was quite funny leaving the ferry in Dieppe as we had some strange, pužžled and smiley looks from the workers we assumed it was because all the other van drivers were in the smart bedsit vans or RVs and ours was Elys lovely old van.
We stayed with my daughter and family near Chateaubriant in France for 5 days relaxing before setting off
So we left on the 27th and after a couple of hours we were LOST!!!! missed the turning....but as I always say you always see something you werent gonna see so it was no problem and it just took us a couple of hours longer getting to a place to kip down.
The first night we went off the main road - and found this dream of a place called SARŽAY. It was a bit off the track but soooooo worth it the village was a bar church cemetary which we slept next to, and an amžing chateau which looked more like an old castle. shame i cant put any pics up but i dont have leads or the knowledge!
in the morning we sat outside in the sun at the bar having coffee and croissants, very contimental.
We were planning to drive and sleep in CLERRMONT FERRAND but all wedid there was go in the cathedral which looked and felt like THE HOME OF THE DEVIL it was a huge town and busybusy busy so decided to leave and seek quieter places.
going baack to the van water was pouring out of the radiator so my training as a nurse came in handy so i was able to plug her up with a bandage and stick it with plaster and we made it to a garage where the KING OF MECHANICS made a part for it, it took him a couple of hours and cost us 180 euro. money well spent. by then we had to find a place to stay which we did at the bottom of a volcano and left early am for PUY-DE-VALAY, a truely wonderful place with volcanic pillars clibing out of the ground with bleeding churches and god stuff on top. The cathedral in town was very beautiful but gawd sake ....................anyway look it up on google you will be amažed.
When we started off Sheila was the navigator but she was right shit at it first but i was a right meany just to make her do it and i knew she would be able to and how right i was I think she said she might start orienteering courses when she gets back to Ireland!!
Any way back to Le Puy-De-Valey we spotted a cemetary, I do love em but this one.....It was old, ghoulish(wrong spelling i know) depressing, dark,eerie, pompous and obviously full of dead people not nice at all so yuou can imagine me and sheila seeing the huge iron gates closed as it shut at 7 and it was 7.15 but luckily the scarey grave keeper left it unlocked for us, yuou should have seen sheilas face - a picture of fear and horror hahahahahaha
Will miss out the other stops and brng you up to the next exciting bit for us
CROSSING THE ALPS from Briancon. it was bloody high snow everywhere except on the roads, we took it real slow out of respec for the van not that it could go fast as its 15 years old but we made most of it in 2nd gear and stopped a few times to let the can rest, have a cup of tea and a piss. The mountains are so so high at one stage i think i remember seeing we were 10000m up or was i seeing thing but anyway fuckin high. and tight u bends no thats plumbing talk ..hairpin bends.
stayed the night in another car park opposite an iceream shop LOVELY and a couple from Morocco chatted to us and she had a look in and they went off laughing! friendly tho!
the next night we slept in a town called I AM A NAME NOT A NUMBER in fact the name of the place has been erased from my memory, souless, rich, everyone so perfect looking in their dress and the place so clean i was tempted to do me toilet in the street that morning but sheila talked me out of it. She was probably right!
VENICE! bloody marvellous as anyone who has been there will know but for gawds sake the shops the shops the shops money money money. building glorious and Sheila loved loved it.
As i sid at the beginning the good thing about getting lost is that you see things you wouldnt normally see WELL the negative thin about getting lost is that we accidently drove onto the autobahn entering SLOVENIA and got stopped and fined 150euro for not getting a pass!! We didnt know we needed one, der the policeman took me off to do the business with papers etc while Sheila remained in the van, she said she thought i may be being roughed up,
mind you she stayed in the van!!! the copper was very apologetic but said the LAW WAS THE LAW i think that must be an international saying. still i wasnt gonna let it spoil our day!
Drove to Postojama to be near the caves. You arent allowed to park overnight anywhere so ended up in a concrete "camp site" with one other van and running water for 15euro not the best place we have stayed.
We were at the caves at 9am on the first tour. The caves are realy magnificent, i had visited them nearly 27 years ago and they have been opened up even more, they are huge. we sat on the little train with loads of school kids screaming it was right exciting it really was an underground world opening up, and once again its a shame ive got no pics to show you but dont fear i will bore you with them on my return.
LJUBLJANA is where we are now and what a wonderful beautiful city it is, and so green and friendly with a river running thru it and glorious building .
SLOVENIA is so green half of it is forest and its small and everywhere green its glorious, we have found a great site and travel into the city by bus, today we are gonna find"Metelkova Town" which is a 'free living commune' which is an area in the city that was taken over by squatters after independance, sounds like east berlin lets hope it dont come too trendy and taken over by the rich.
The Slovenians are such educated people nearly everywhere you go people speak english, bus drivers, shop workers, people on the street where would you find that in the uk.
Food cooked some great meals rissottos, pasta dishes, saltfish and acki, yumyum smack me bum. we planning our next dinner while we are eating.
Tis great being away with Sheila and she loves the shops !!
ALL IS GOOD XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
it was quite funny leaving the ferry in Dieppe as we had some strange, pužžled and smiley looks from the workers we assumed it was because all the other van drivers were in the smart bedsit vans or RVs and ours was Elys lovely old van.
We stayed with my daughter and family near Chateaubriant in France for 5 days relaxing before setting off
So we left on the 27th and after a couple of hours we were LOST!!!! missed the turning....but as I always say you always see something you werent gonna see so it was no problem and it just took us a couple of hours longer getting to a place to kip down.
The first night we went off the main road - and found this dream of a place called SARŽAY. It was a bit off the track but soooooo worth it the village was a bar church cemetary which we slept next to, and an amžing chateau which looked more like an old castle. shame i cant put any pics up but i dont have leads or the knowledge!
in the morning we sat outside in the sun at the bar having coffee and croissants, very contimental.
We were planning to drive and sleep in CLERRMONT FERRAND but all wedid there was go in the cathedral which looked and felt like THE HOME OF THE DEVIL it was a huge town and busybusy busy so decided to leave and seek quieter places.
going baack to the van water was pouring out of the radiator so my training as a nurse came in handy so i was able to plug her up with a bandage and stick it with plaster and we made it to a garage where the KING OF MECHANICS made a part for it, it took him a couple of hours and cost us 180 euro. money well spent. by then we had to find a place to stay which we did at the bottom of a volcano and left early am for PUY-DE-VALAY, a truely wonderful place with volcanic pillars clibing out of the ground with bleeding churches and god stuff on top. The cathedral in town was very beautiful but gawd sake ....................anyway look it up on google you will be amažed.
When we started off Sheila was the navigator but she was right shit at it first but i was a right meany just to make her do it and i knew she would be able to and how right i was I think she said she might start orienteering courses when she gets back to Ireland!!
Any way back to Le Puy-De-Valey we spotted a cemetary, I do love em but this one.....It was old, ghoulish(wrong spelling i know) depressing, dark,eerie, pompous and obviously full of dead people not nice at all so yuou can imagine me and sheila seeing the huge iron gates closed as it shut at 7 and it was 7.15 but luckily the scarey grave keeper left it unlocked for us, yuou should have seen sheilas face - a picture of fear and horror hahahahahaha
Will miss out the other stops and brng you up to the next exciting bit for us
CROSSING THE ALPS from Briancon. it was bloody high snow everywhere except on the roads, we took it real slow out of respec for the van not that it could go fast as its 15 years old but we made most of it in 2nd gear and stopped a few times to let the can rest, have a cup of tea and a piss. The mountains are so so high at one stage i think i remember seeing we were 10000m up or was i seeing thing but anyway fuckin high. and tight u bends no thats plumbing talk ..hairpin bends.
stayed the night in another car park opposite an iceream shop LOVELY and a couple from Morocco chatted to us and she had a look in and they went off laughing! friendly tho!
the next night we slept in a town called I AM A NAME NOT A NUMBER in fact the name of the place has been erased from my memory, souless, rich, everyone so perfect looking in their dress and the place so clean i was tempted to do me toilet in the street that morning but sheila talked me out of it. She was probably right!
VENICE! bloody marvellous as anyone who has been there will know but for gawds sake the shops the shops the shops money money money. building glorious and Sheila loved loved it.
As i sid at the beginning the good thing about getting lost is that you see things you wouldnt normally see WELL the negative thin about getting lost is that we accidently drove onto the autobahn entering SLOVENIA and got stopped and fined 150euro for not getting a pass!! We didnt know we needed one, der the policeman took me off to do the business with papers etc while Sheila remained in the van, she said she thought i may be being roughed up,
mind you she stayed in the van!!! the copper was very apologetic but said the LAW WAS THE LAW i think that must be an international saying. still i wasnt gonna let it spoil our day!
Drove to Postojama to be near the caves. You arent allowed to park overnight anywhere so ended up in a concrete "camp site" with one other van and running water for 15euro not the best place we have stayed.
We were at the caves at 9am on the first tour. The caves are realy magnificent, i had visited them nearly 27 years ago and they have been opened up even more, they are huge. we sat on the little train with loads of school kids screaming it was right exciting it really was an underground world opening up, and once again its a shame ive got no pics to show you but dont fear i will bore you with them on my return.
LJUBLJANA is where we are now and what a wonderful beautiful city it is, and so green and friendly with a river running thru it and glorious building .
SLOVENIA is so green half of it is forest and its small and everywhere green its glorious, we have found a great site and travel into the city by bus, today we are gonna find"Metelkova Town" which is a 'free living commune' which is an area in the city that was taken over by squatters after independance, sounds like east berlin lets hope it dont come too trendy and taken over by the rich.
The Slovenians are such educated people nearly everywhere you go people speak english, bus drivers, shop workers, people on the street where would you find that in the uk.
Food cooked some great meals rissottos, pasta dishes, saltfish and acki, yumyum smack me bum. we planning our next dinner while we are eating.
Tis great being away with Sheila and she loves the shops !!
ALL IS GOOD XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Sunday, April 25, 2010
the van is packed and we are ready to roll
first and foremost i want to thank you all for working so hard to pay me a pension so that i can see a bit more of the world. My friend Sheila from Ireland has been brave enough to come with me.
We are both nans and we are travelling in an old ford transit through france and italy into eastern europe. Aint got no rigid plan on where we will go but the worlds our lobster!
We are both nans and we are travelling in an old ford transit through france and italy into eastern europe. Aint got no rigid plan on where we will go but the worlds our lobster!
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