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Freedom (ish)

By Sarah July 29, 2020July 30, 2020

Since I wrote my last post as we prepared for the end of French lockdown on 11th May, we've been enjoying our freedom - even if it wasn't total freedom…

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Lockdown Travel diary

Locked-down vanlife

By Sarah April 26, 2020April 27, 2020

We're 40 days into Coronavirus lockdown in our van in the French Alps.

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Bucketlist Travel diary

January didn’t suck this year

By Sarah February 3, 2020February 4, 2020

January. Christmas done. Back to work and commuting in the dark. Rainy school runs. Waiting 96 days until payday. Not this year though.

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Bucketlist Travel diary

Journey so far

By Sarah December 2, 2019December 6, 2019

132 days, 7270 miles, eight countries, one overseas territory, 12 cities, five ferry crossings, three ski resorts, 50 ish beaches and an active volcano.

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10 weeks in

By Sarah October 1, 2019December 2, 2019

It's exactly 10 weeks to the day since we left Exmouth. We've covered about 3500 miles across France, Spain, Portugal and back into Spain.

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Building dens and making friends

By Sarah September 16, 2019September 17, 2019

Biscarosse gave us our first proper taste of beach van life.

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The sand mountain

By Sarah September 5, 2019September 16, 2019

After three weeks spent inland and a long journey across France, this family of beach bums were ready to be reunited with the coast.

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Disney-on-the-Dordogne?

By Sarah September 3, 2019September 16, 2019

Jim described La Roque-Gageac as 'Disney meets the Cotswolds' (I wonder if the Dordogne tourist board fancy that one?)

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Beautiful Beaulieu

By Sarah August 28, 2019September 16, 2019

Beaulieu means, literally, 'beautiful place' and I can't think of a better description.

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Heading west in search of hooks

By Sarah August 20, 2019September 16, 2019

On Monday 5 August we left the Alps and started our journey towards the coast.

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About us

We are the Avery family - in July 2019 we escaped the treadmill of modern life in the UK and set off on an adventure around Europe in our campervan. ⁣So far our travels have taken us over 10,000 miles through eight countries. We spent winter in the French Alps, fulfilling our dream of a family snowboard season, until Covid-19 happened and we found ourselves in lockdown. We've since resumed our travels and continued the search for sun, snow and a simple life.

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