One Month on the Roads of Europe

It has been over one month since we started RVing.  It is still spring and so far we have experienced 30 degrees C temperatures.  We kept changing our route and one time we decided on doing Greece extensively after Bulgaria - we were then in Romania.  One day after experiencing extreme heat (extreme for people living in Greater Vancouver, Canada), we were sad but we changed our route again.  We dropped Bulgaria and Greece and headed back to Hungary with target destination - Dunkirk and the towns and communes in the Celtic Sea of France - facing the English Channel.  We were in the beaches facing the North Sea and part of the Celtic Sea last year in August and we were extremely surprised but happy that the temperatures were warm at the worst and cool on most days.  So that is where we want to go.  We are Filipinos by birth and has grown tired of the heat and for the last 11 years enjoyed the cool and pleasant wheather in our home in Surrey, BC.

We have travelled 5 countries so far and roughly 2500 kms with an expense of Euros 420 for diesel.  Since we do eat home/RV cooked meals most of the time, I don't consider food as an extra expense due to the fact that we do eat whether we are at home or here RVing.  Eating out at home is about once or twice a week so it's about the same here.  LPG is Euros 20-30 for a month but we do not need to pay for electricity and heating which we normally do when we are home-based so LPG expense is a lot cheaper comparing.

We experienced - unknown to us at the time - an attempted break-in which was unsuccessful obviously.  Mar discovered our habitation door (door of the house part of the RV) is broken and was tampered with.  This has happened once in our six months of RVing last year on the driver side door.  The attempt was also unsuccessful.  We consider ourselves very lucky because a lot of successful break-ins are happening here in Europe especially in the South of France and in Spain.  Some motorhomers are claiming they were gassed because they did not wake up during the burglary but a lot disagree on the story of gassing claiming it is impossible.

In 2007, our first time RVing in Europe, we were with our 19 year old daughter then, when we were broken into - our daughter's back pack was taken and was ransacked outside (bits of grass clung onto the bottom) then returned after.  Her wallet and passport was not taken but her more than Cad$100 was taken.  We slept through the whole thing not hearing a thing.  Mar woke up the following morning and was shocked to discover we were robbed and a thief or thieves were actually inside our camper while we were deep asleep - all three of us.  We were quite relieved and thankful later on that we all were unharmed. 

More stories later.