An unabashed tourist and her family explore the world one holiday at a time.
What I love about travelling by campercar is the freedom to come and go as you please. After our first blissful few days at Lake Bled, we planned to stop at Bovec, a small town in the middle of the Julian Alps, in the northernmost part of Slovenia. We left the dinosaurs behind just before Continue Reading
You’ve all heard this pithy saying: “Raising kids is a walk in the park. Jurassic Park.” Well, some days that statement is literally true. On the day we left Lake Bled we told the little traveller that we had a surprise for him. The look on his face when we stopped at Dino Park Bled Continue Reading
The image on the cover immediately grabbed my attention. Exotic, mysterious, adventurous – it hinted at all the things travel could be, and I couldn’t resist. Sunday Times Travel Magazine’s Amazing Places sets out to highlight 200 of the world’s most extraordinary destinations – not an easy feat, I would imagine. How do you pick Continue Reading
Our guidebook advised spending a morning in Radovljica, a quaint little town not far from Lake Bled, so we packed up our campervan and headed out. We soon learned that driving such a big vehicle in tiny one-way streets is not ideal, and finding parking for it even worse. Fortunately, just as we were giving Continue Reading
Before I had even parked the campervan in its spot I was already in love – with Slovenia in general, our campsite in particular, and Lake Bled specifically. We were staying for three nights, but we already knew we could easily have spent our entire 3-week trip camped right here, on the shores of a Continue Reading
Three weeks in a campervan can be both idyllic and a huge pain in the neck. The freedom to go when and where you please can be offset by the cramped space, the lack of legroom when sleeping, the fact that you bump your head every time you turn around, or the very real problem Continue Reading
I planned out our ideal route before we travelled to the Balkans. We were going to visit Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro and Bosnia & Herzegovina during our 3-week campervan trip. Things didn’t turn out quite as planned. The company we hired the campervan from were adamant that we were not to take the vehicle into either Continue Reading
There are many reasons why we decided to do this year’s big holiday in a campervan, but the most important one is the flexibility it will give us to come and go as we please. I’ve planned out a route, but nothing is set in stone and if we decide that we like a specific Continue Reading
The countdown timer on my phone tells me we’re into the twenties now, less than thirty days until our upcoming trip to Croatia, Slovenia, Montenegro and Bosnia & Herzegovina! I’ve had sleepless nights thinking about all the things I needed to get done before we could set foot on the plane, but now, with less Continue Reading
Imagine my distress when I logged into social media late night on 15 April, only to be confronted by a slew of images of the Notre Dame on fire. I’m not embarrassed to say that I was in tears. I spent the rest of the evening in a shell-shocked state, watching footage of the fire Continue Reading