Great sleep in solitude and a beautiful day has dawned. We were expecting our hosts this morning before we left but as they said they would only come if they had the time, decided not to wait and headed back to the main road. A new motorway (tolled) gave us…
Yes, quite disturbed sleep till 5am. Trains all night. Never mind. It was free..:) We are now parked in the middle of a large field. Bare, fine dirt that will be ploughed soon, like the one opposite. By 5pm we have driven 264 miles for the day and they have…
Sokrat, our Land Rover Technician here in St Petersburg had put the Land Rover up on an amazing hoist (when you are an expert on hoists..) and was showing me the oil leaks from various places. They are now fixing an oil leak from the fuel regulator at the back…
We are a family of nomads, the Browns. My youngest brother Ash, introduced me to long distance cycling nine years ago. He said, why don’t we do a cycle trip? Where? lets do South America, he says!!! Hang on. the last time I rode a push bike was in 1962!!…
Hi! Folks, we are back in a new hotel room tonight, exhausted from walking miles around this amazing city. Back to the beginning of the day. We had to hurry back to the garage by 9am this morning as I had managed to leave there last night with the wagon…
Late start as we didn’t wake up until 9.30, after a great sleep. By the time we’d cooked porridge, packed everything up, collected the washing, which has been hanging on a line in the forest overnight and Dennis had given the old girl a clean, it was almost midday before…
We have found a lovely spot to camp this evening. It’s about 100m from the main road through a band of fir trees and about another 50m to the railway line and we are camped between. Fortunately there is not much traffic noise reaching us and the railway line has…
A great night’s sleep. It’s heaven in our wagon. Well, today is a very special day. It’s Georgia’s birthday. Georgia is one of our eight grandchildren. Georgia is a whole 10 today. She is a beautiful and very talented young lady. She is the daughter of my eldest daughter Deirdre…
Awake bright and early…3am!! Thankfully some more zzzzzz’s till around 9am. The designated ‘man’ was around at 10am to collect the rent. NZ$30, but the interesting thing is how a young girl is latching onto the potential to rent out her apartment for what is probably a couple of weeks…
The day started well. After breakfast, the hotel staff had good news. The garage had rung to say our car was fixed and we could pick it up in 15 minutes. Hooray! Tatyana, the receptionist had said the previous evening she would walk there with us and translate, as it…