and during over fifty years of marriage we have both enjoyed traveling, during the early years in the UK and later abroad. Between us we have visited (in no particular order) France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Litchenstien, Spain, Portugal, Holland, Republic of Ireland, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Poland, Ukraine, Egypt, Jordan, The Gambia, Canada, Austria and Greece.

The end of May 2011 saw both of us retired at a young enough age to do something with the time we have left. We have decided to travel – if finances allowed it would be world wide and first class, but they will not, so it will be a caravan and mainland Europe with (if those pesky finances permit) an occasional “cattle class” flight to somewhere we have always wanted to see.

Unfortunately Sue being enticed back to work scuppered our travelling for the year July 2012 to July 2013 but was in it’s way fortuitous as, by our return to the road in August 2013 we had had to replace both car and caravan.

Winter 2013/14 instead of swimming with the fishes on the great barrier reef, as planned, we went back to Spain and Portugal (for the story of that adventure click HERE)

Summer 2014 saw us up in the land of the midnight sun – Norway. Going north of the Arctic Circle has enabled us become members of The Order of Blue Nosed Caravanners (for the story of that adventure click HERE

In 2014 we visited the most northeasterly country in (western) Europe – Norway, and the most southwesterly country in Europe – Portugal and every country in-between.

We have also spent summers in Poland and Scotland, I say summer in Scotland. In the three months we were there it rained on all but three days.

When the UK voted to leave the EU we could see problems with our life style, spending from mid September till mid April in Portugal and from late April to early September in Northern(ish) Europe. Nationals from non EU members countries are allowed only 90 days in any 180 days visa free travel and even worse cars are allowed only 60 days in any 180 without transfereing it to an EU member state registration number plate.

We were sure we didn’t yet want to go back into bricks and mortar so what next?

After much research and head scratching we bought NB RoJo a 52 foot narrowboat. To read about our first years living aboard CLICK HERE