Mobile phone data use when on a ship or ferry Which apps use the most data when roaming and how can you find out? While on the ferry returning from Santander to the UK I was surprised how many people were receiving messages and phone calls on their mobile phones. I wondered if they knew
Camping-Car Park with and without the Privilege Pack. We have tried to use Camping-Car Park in the past, sat outside one of their campsites for about an hour trying to register and book. What stopped us was all the add on fees, so the overnight cost went from something like €14 to €56 – admittedly
Another large trek through France and Spain in September 2024 now completed and available. I’ve moved away from Google maps and am now using OpenStreetMap for the actual maps and a mapping tool that helps to generate the individual points and maps that you see on the pages. Overall I think the process is working
The recent changes to Google’s Timeline have been nothing short of a disaster! Moving the storage of Timeline from Google’s servers to the user’s device doesn’t sound much, but it messes up a lot of things. I can no longer view my Timeline in a browser from my iMac, I can’t download the route that
Google has moved storage of Timeline data onto individual devices, that means all your Timeline data for your phone is stored only on your phone and is no longer accessible via a browser. This is causing me a massive problem, let me explain. All the maps on this website show our travels as they were
We plan a trek through Spain in September (2024), as soon as August is over. There are two good reasons we like September in Spain, first the heat of July and August is past, and second the school holidays are over, so we’re no longer needed for grandparent duties. Our preferred way to reach Spain
This is hard to believe, but the Reich twin pump that we installed only 14 months ago has failed. This is dreadful. These Reich submersible pumps are not cheap and should last much longer than 14 months, we are not using the Reich pump every day, most of the time it sits in the motorhome
Our early summer 2024 is an exciting trip to Sigtuna in Sweden for a dancing event, around 1,500 miles each way. Outward we decided to travel through Denmark using the bridges – the most expensive bridges in Europe. For our return to Germany we opted for the Trellborg to Travemunde ferry operated by TT-Line. The
We’re back in France and as usual headed for our favourite aire in Calais, Le Grand Gravlot, well what a surprise, when we arrived the site is closed. Normally there would be 50 or more motorhomes spending the night there, but now the road is blocked and all the facilities have been ripped out. When
Following on from my previous post about the Hymer outside temperature showing —°C, after extensive research on the internet and various forums the problem has been fixed. The problem was the external temperature sensor, the sensor had failed, that problem was not really difficult to diagnose. The bigger problem was finding the location of the