Awaycation Summer 2023 - France

Day 1 Arrived at the Shuttle at 0646 and checked Reggie into the Pet Reception. Amazingly we were offered an earlier crossing. In 25 years maybe only the second or third time! Our first stop tonight would be a campsite in Bourg-Comin - Camping la Pointe. Only €19 a night inc EHU. Decent site, good pitches. After a stop at the Picard in Coquelles for three kilos of dogador, raw food for dogs,and then Auchun for those essentials for life - food, beer and wine, and we were off. We decided...

Join them? Maybe not. I have never been a great fan of the hundreds of vlogs that appear on motorcycling sites and FB pages that simply show someone riding a bike along the road. The wind noise needing the volume on the TV or laptop turned down. Boring! So when I got into motorhoming and started seeing all the vlogs from the likes of "The Slaws Adventures" and "ex-Pawer"s that contained a little more content than simply watching the road slide past for hour and hour on end, I got a bit...

Excuse small posts but I am trying to get a handle on how to update the Journal. It took me three days to work out that creating "Awaycation Summer 2023 - France" was just the description and not the blog/journal itself! Anyway. I applied online for the Crit-Air sticker in April and printed the receipt with the yellow 2 on it. Today the sticker arrived from France. We are visiting a friend inside the Greater Lyon LEZ and for a few quid it was worth getting it. The moho is in storage...

I saw a thread about creating a journal and decided to have a crack at it. I already have a blog that I use to keep family appraised of the trips we are taking and when we are out, what's happening and where we are. So I thought as a fully paid up member of Motorhome Fun I'd see if this works as a record of the trips we are doing. Apart from our usual two night stays at sites and CL's we tend to have two longer trips. We usually restrict these to 15 or 16 days away. Last year we did a...