The big house

Today at 12:00pm we closed our kennel business, said goodbye to all our customers drove the 4 miles back to our home, where we met my dad. We gave him the keys and instructions on how to run the house and look after the dogs and then we packed Wanda and left Norfolk to embark on our first adventure.
2 years of planning and plotting co-ordinates into the sat Nav will take us into France, across the Alps, into the Pyrenees down through the central plains of Spain and along the coast into Portugal to stay at Ellies mum and dads holiday home near Faro. From there we will head to Lisbon, then along the coast and back into Spain through the mountains to Bordeaux, France and then along the western coast of France before starting our return journey back home.
This is our test journey, the journey to see if all our modifications will work, all weathers, all conditions. Will we be able to refill our new refillable gas bottles easily? Will the newly fitted diesel heater keep us warm? Will our newly fitted WiFi system actually give us internet in hard to reach places? Have we packed enough clothes for all weathers to keep us going for 2 months? And most of all will our 18 year old son be happy living in such a small place with his parents or will he bail out when we get to Portugal and come home with his grandparents. At 8am, Tuesday 5th October we leave England on the Eurotunnel to embark on our adventure.Read more