The Adventuring Hills

Summer of  2014 rolls round and we want to get away. We don't care where exactly, we just want to get out of the country. Money is a bit tight, so we decide to camp. We plan a rough route in the space of a few days, and are ready to leaving within 5 days of deciding we want to go. Loading up my Honda Civic with the camping essential (and various replacement parts for the car, just in case), we hit the road and go down to Dover. I hadn't camped before, so made one condition beforehand which was that we would have one night in a hotel in the middle. 2 days before we left, he also realised that we're going the weekend of Le Mans 24 hour race, so in retaliation to my "one night in a hotel", we agree that we also stop by the race on the way. On the way there it dawns on him that England are playing in the World Cup on the night we arrive, so it becomes a race to get to Le Mans to find a pub to watch the game in. We do it, but only by the skin of the teeth. On my...

7 years ago me and him first met. We moved in quickly (kind of by accident, but that's a different story) and spent a couple of years just going on mini-road trips but never going too far. The summer of 2014 we decided to go on a road trip around Europe, and this was the beginning of the travel bug getting to us as a couple. We had both gone off on our own adventures before we met, but now it was different with the two of us. Now we're 4 years on from that, and our adventures just keep getting better and better. We share a lot of what we do on our social media pages, and often how people asking how we do it when we just have "normal" jobs and have our house etc. So we decided to write about it. To get us started, we're going to share some of our older adventures, and then as we go on new ones they'll be here. So first up, let's get started with our first European road trip. This one isn't the best documented one as this is what kicked off the b...