Hi, we are Mel and Sally Harrison and we love to travel around in our motorhome.
When
we were younger, we were both in the armed forces and were fortunate enough to
travel to various countries through work and pleasure. We met in Belgium, became best friends and
married 2 years later. We continued to travel and have had some great holidays
with our 2 children.
We
brought our first motorhome (Hilda) 4 years ago; a 2005 Swift Sundance. Not knowing whether we would like the concept
of motorhoming, we ventured across to the Lake District for a few weekends to
get the measure of it all. We then ventured further to France and Spain for 3 weeks
and have never looked back – enjoying the freedom of the open road! We
bought our second motorhome 2 years ago, a brand-new 4-berth Sun Living (named Sonny)
and have since travelled to Belgium, France, Germany, Austria and Luxembourg.
For
the past 2 years we have dreamed and talked of retiring, leaving it all behind
to travel around Europe, North Africa, Scandinavia and beyond. Last month, part one of the dream came true
when we retired, Mel aged 58 and Sally 55. Part 2 starts on 27 December 2016 and the adventures will begin as we
leave
our daughter’s house in Darlington and travel down to Spain to spend 2
months with our son in Punta Umbria, Andalusia. From here we will travel into Gibraltar and
across to Morocco.
After that we plan to
visit as much of Europe before having to return to the UK, December 2017. We have decided not to make a plan/itinerary
but travel where the mood takes us. Year 3 we plan to visit Scandinavia.
To
fund the trip, we have rented our house out and are lucky enough to have a few
pensions. We have set ourselves a daily
budget and a note to selves “we are not on holiday everyday so go easy on the alcohol” We’ll have to see how that one goes! The plan
is to see as much as we can and embrace each country’s culture at a nice
leisurely pace.
We
are new to the world of blogging and so our ‘blog journey’ may be a little up
and down but we hope you will strap yourself in and enjoy following us on our
adventures.
Hello Mel and Sally! We met yesterday in Saint Saire and it was nice meating you both!!! Thanks very much for your information and the map with the route of Portugal, i am sure we are going to use it😀 Once aagain thanks!!! Many greatings from; Hanneke vd Boomen and Marius Aben from Deurne North Brabant The Netherlands.
ReplyDeleteHello to you both. You are most welcome for the map and I hope you enjoy Portugal as much as we did. Happy travels. Sally and Mel x
DeleteRead your article in the Gazette.Absolutely Awesome thing to do. Enjoy every minute of it, and make some special memories you wont forget!
ReplyDeleteWould love to do the same, just need to win the lotto first :-)
Good Luck!
Terry
Thanks Terry for your kind words. We saved hard for years to be able to buy our motorhome and it has been worth every penny. We have had a lot of fun along the way and made some incredible memories. Fingers crossed that you get that Lotto win and manage to get to do this one day. Sally x
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