Flashlights are “torches”. Trucks are “lorries”. Underwear are “knickers”. Car trunks are “boots”. Same things, but known in different English-speaking cultures by different names. Little did we know when setting out to buy a motorhome in Europe that what we knew about types of motorhomes in America would have completely different designations in Europe. Trailers…
We started this adventure with a vision of our family backpacking around the world. Our vision became increasingly pragmatic once we looked at the actual costs of doing so with three people. As the old saying goes, “Necessity is the mother of invention”. We reinvented our vision of how we travel to better meet our…
As you may remember from our earliest posts, one of our first challenges on planning a trip of this magnitude, and especially on a continent as expensive as Europe can be, was that of how we were going to transport, shelter, and feed our family of three comfortably and affordably. We landed on the idea…