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 FROM THE MOUNTAINS of SNOWDONIA WALES to CHESHIRE ENGLAND 28th July 2015 FARMER PETE’S CAMP.  Cooking breakfast at our mountain camp was done in the back of the van as it was raining heavily. After breakfast with a little wheel … Continue reading →

 WELSH CAMPSITES Blaenau-Ffestiniog slate   Snowdonia National Park   Caernarfon (Carnarvon) 25th July 2015 In the first post of Revisiting England and Wales I related the story of how the manager of one of the official campgrounds where we wanted to stay … Continue reading →

TOTNES, DEVON and THE ORGANIC FARM CAMP. August 2015 According to a number of references the Totnes locality exhibits bohemian or alternative living tendencies and even though Bev and I have bohemian leanings we didn’t visit the area because of … Continue reading →

GRAND VAN TOUR of ENGLAND and WALES POST#3: Apple Tree Farm to Dolgellau via Llanidloes. Our log cabin camp. 18TH July 2015 Fortunately it didn’t rain during the night so this morning the camp and our clothes were dry. During … Continue reading →

GRAND VAN TOUR OF ENGLAND and WALES.  POST 2: POLICEMAN’S TREE CAMP to APPLE TREE CAMP via LEDBURY and CHELTENHAM. 17th JULY 2015 From Policeman’s Tree Camp we pushed on towards Cheltenham to a Tern bicycle agent. The plan was … Continue reading →

GRAND VAN TOUR OF ENGLAND and WALES LONDON to POLICEMAN’S TREE CAMP via OXFORD. JULY 2015 The aim of our forthcoming trip was to meet up with friends from the past. Our friends live in Dolgellau and Gilwern in Wales, … Continue reading →

REVISITING ENGLAND AND WALES       11th July – 11th September 2015 RETURN to LONDON..after Spain, Morocco and France. This is post number 170 and it concentrates heavily on touchstone events in our lives.     To date, Encountering … Continue reading →

DIEPPE and OUR RETURN TO LONDON 9th-10th July 2015. There were a number of reasons why we decided to use the port of Dieppe as our departure point for England. Dieppe was from where my travelling companion Ian and I … Continue reading →

PARIS to DIEPPE via ROUEN THURSDAY 9TH JULY 2015 As soon as we entered the street from our hotel this morning Heloise, a young French girl, approached us and asked about our bikes and where we were going. Since buying … Continue reading →

PARIS A BRIEF STOPOVER. 8TH JULY 2015. It is now three months since we began Encountering the Past Part 3 and because in the past month we have rubbed shoulders with thousands of summer holidaymakers we thought we could avoid … Continue reading →