March 2021
Post from John
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| Our first van experience - hired from Wildax |
We have spent
some time during lockdown reflecting on things (as have many others, I
suspect), including motorhoming. We have been looking back, re-reading the blog
and looking at all the photos we have taken on the trips. It has been great to
bring back the memories, almost all happy, of our 8 years with the vans. We
have also been looking forward, re-evaluating what we want to do in the future
in terms of travel. Thankfully we are not the type with a huge bucket-list of
exotic destinations; there is a lot we want to see and do without stepping on
an aeroplane.
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| Amelia and Theodora |
In this retrospective mood, I also totted up our travels in the van(s) since 2012.
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Nights away |
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Own Van |
Hired |
Total |
Sites |
CL/CS |
Aires |
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2012 |
4 |
7 |
11 |
6 |
2 |
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2013 |
37 |
37 |
12 |
1 |
1 |
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2014 |
33 |
33 |
14 |
2 |
3 |
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2015 |
42 |
42 |
12 |
3 |
3 |
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2016 |
37 |
37 |
17 |
1 |
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2017 |
59 |
59 |
30 |
3 |
1 |
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2018 |
18 |
30 |
48 |
24 |
18 NZ |
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2019 |
71 |
71 |
33 |
2 |
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2020 |
15 |
15 |
5 |
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316 |
37 |
353 |
153 |
11 |
11 |
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| Our NZ van |
Our usage for
the first few years was fairly consistent; nowhere near as many nights as other
van owners, but not bad given the other calls on our time, such as close family
scattered from Scotland to Bedfordshire, and my trips to the Channel Islands
for lecturing. Ruth stopping work in 2015, and me in 2016, should have led to
an increase in trips, but as has been chronicled in the blog, other factors
ensured that we didn’t quite achieve that. The most annoying part was that in
2020, having officially become pensioners, we should have been putting some serious
miles on the van. However, as the great John Lennon sang:
“Life is
what happens to you when you’re busy making other plans”
Still, onward
to 2021, which must be a better year!
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