• Lucy Wignall
  • Chris Brace

European Van Trip 2022

A 117-day adventure by Lucy & Chris Read more
  • Winery Tour & Museum

    October 23, 2022 in Moldova ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C

    ...then in came a family of 6. Lennon had just began to get quite shouty and climby, a little tired and a little bored. This family we had seen be taken on the tour we'd expected to go on, and on their way into the restaurant one of the girls came over and laughed and said "if you need anything, you can ask me I speak English"

    The winery owner had told her obviously that we couldn't understand and joked about her translating, the rest of her family didn't speak English but she was super friendly and we found out they lived close by but had never been to the winery before. Despite being full and expecting to leave soon, they kept bringing us more food and wines and the Moldovan girl at the next table would jump up and explain what it was to us each time 🤣

    We asked her to ask the owner, if we could possibly go to look round the winery anyway even if we didn't get the explanation, she did, he said yes and she then insisted on coming with us to translate 🤣 leaving her family meal and she was so lovely and chatty we all ended up having a good laugh. At the end Lennon was sooo tired he was trying to cover his face to sleep so we said we must take him home and asked to pay for lunch and the wines we had chosen to buy, we bought Liulea (the girl) a bottle too to say thanks for her tour 😂 but we were unable to pay as his wife has gone out and he wasn't able to do it 🤣
    So given we were camping outside, he said he would send his wife out with the wine and for us to pay once she got back
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  • More Wine!

    October 23, 2022 in Moldova ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C

    Well Lennon napped, and then woke up, Mrs Winery came back, time went on... It started to get dark and we began to wonder if they had forgotten all about us.

    After a few hours we decided to go back in, have some more rose and pay up.

    Liulea and her family were still in there, minus the parents so we ended up talking to them for ages (well her) and then they left and we got some wine and intended just that and to go home. Mrs Winery brought us some crouton snacks. A few minutes later Mr Winery came with a huge platter of meat and roast vegetables (we had already told them we didn't want dinner 😂)

    Maybe it was the wine but it tasted like the best food of our lives 😂 when we eventually finished (Lennon ate so much sausage I'm surprised he's not still full the next day) and tried to pay again, Mrs Winery had disappeared again so we were just hanging around with Mr Winery. I couldn't work out much, but I know he speaks Romanian, Russian, Turkish & German, his daughter is names Liza short for Elizabeth (like 'King' Elizabeth 😂😂😂) he gave the bottle of wine to Liulea for us on the house and he loves wine 🍷😂🤣🥳
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  • BBQ at Matthews House

    October 26, 2022 in Romania ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C

    What was initially a cup of tea at our Romanian besties house, ended up being a bbq followed by a bonfire with his parents and sister too, who could not have been more lovely.

    His Dad was obsessed with Lennon who was as usual lapping up the attention. Sadly we didn't get many pictures but I really wanted to make sure we remembered those chicken skewers 😂 they live next door to a church, in the centre of Bucharest, so we had choir singing all night which we thought was nice, but they hated because it's all evening every evening... And can feature rap and other unusual religious music 🤣Read more

  • Therme - Last Day together in Bucharest

    October 27, 2022 in Romania ⋅ 🌙 13 °C

    For our last day before the journey home we spent an entire day in the Therme. Lennon napped in the clam shell beds and Brace got to go and see the same crazy towel waving dance I got to see last time we visited 😂 I took a full walk around video of this crazy place but its over ten minutes long 🤣 so maybe if I ever get round to editing it down I'll pop it upRead more

  • Lennon on a plane

    October 28, 2022 in Romania ⋅ 🌬 17 °C

    Everything was delayed at both ends, I couldn't take us both and our baggage into the toilet in the airport and I was boiling from going through security with 20 layers of clothes to avoid having to check and collect a big bag 😂 but Lennon could not have been better behaved the entire flight (which was disappointing due to being sat by a rude, arrogant, water and crisps stealing idiot) 😂

    He made a million friends in the airport, on the plane and on the trains and tubes to meet Georgina in London.

    If it weren't for him being so heavy and me having all our belongings in hand luggage I'd do it again... But I think my back is broken 🙈🤣 so he needs to walk before I'll take him solo on a flight again!
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  • Lennon in London

    October 29, 2022 in England ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C

    We made it to London, 5 days with Auntie George, 4 nights without Daddy or Ringo, 3 play gyms, 2 new shoes, more than 1 drink 😂 and some matching PJs 🥰🤣🤗

  • Leogang Bikepark

    October 30, 2022 in Austria ⋅ ☀️ 13 °C

    Final bikepark of the trip!

    Trip end
    November 1, 2022