Travel insurance……after a week of looking 8hours a day and ringing an awful lot of companies i finally went for the least worst option…what that means is the one thats not quite as bad as the others !  We have…

They’d manged to exclude some contries from its validity so it had to be returned. The revised one is here so panic over……

So the little piece of paper worth over 12,000 arrived today. Better not lose it then…….

We may now be meeting up with 10 Swedish travellers in 3 other cars on their way to Africa. We need to waste some time in Europe as they are planning on going leter than we were but the more…

The Syria thing is really starting to get on my nerves. Its going to ruin the whole thing. Firstly it made the ferry cancel that route. Now its making it almost impossible to consider crossing Syria. We could spend a…

I hate Vision Express….they were given a fair crack of the whip and i even had to resort to a Data Protection request to get my records. Why don’t opticians give your PD measurment (Pupil Distance)? Answer, so they can…

Finally got the wills sorted. £54 and done online. Mirror wills. Just hope they never come into play.

Thanks to a work colleague we now have online tracking on this very web site. We can use the Sat Phone to send an Email to the map and it then plots the location for all to see. The map…

No not Baz Luhmann but instead silver backed sun shades for the side windows and windscreen with suckers so they can be firmly positioned. Should stop people peeking through the window and keep out the heat when we park up.…

So we thought long and hard about getting a findmespot tracker to use so family and friends can see where we are. Thats all we did, we thought about it. In the end having consulted with various web sites and…

Wheel bearings done and spares list filled. Got a couple more things to do on the car before its done. So its all becoming paperwork and admin now. We need to get the house sorted out. Theres a lot to…

The GPS came with minutes to spare and i’ve spent the bank holiday weekend re-greasing the front wheel bearings. Not a job i like to do ! The first was a right pig and decided to spill its swivel grease…

You’d think they would actully mean B4 1pm. Its 12:10pm and i’m getting impatient. COME ON Royal Mail pull ya fecking finger out. I want my new GPS delivered.

so this is the first part of the paperwork. Need to get the carnet money deposited in the RAC bank account and then wait for that to arrive. The Never ending list of stuff to do isn’t getting shorter.