Campervan Capers

A few months ago, my husband and I had planned to go away on a two week trip in Gloria, our campervan. Then our time got cut short to a week, as my husband had to work. We had dreamed of visiting Glen Coe and all its beauty in Scotland, but feared our dear van wouldn't make it that far in just a week - we thought we'd chug all the up the motorway, quickly look at the landscape and have to drive straight back again. Then we day dreamed of going to Ireland - my husband is half Irish and he's never been there, which seems a tragedy. We own a fantastic book, my Irish friend gave me, about where to travel in Ireland by campervan. We were getting excited planning our route but again, didn't think Gloria could handle the journey in a week. Next on the list was Wales and our friend who was best man at our wedding would be staying there that week, so we decided third time lucky, let's head for there and meet him there, so off we set.

We got as far as Birmingingham on a grey, rainy day before Gloria decided to cut out. We had to pull onto the hard shoulder, only to be stuck on the M6 for an hour. We waited for the lovely RAC man to come to our rescue and tow us all the way back home. Gloria was pushed back under the carport until we could arrange for a garage to repair her. Two months on, she is finally recovered and all ready to take us with her on our future travels.