PerfectlyNomadic

14/03/2026

Well it looks like we’ve found home for the rest of the month. We’re not ‘site’ people but this is a campervan stop, so kind of a half way house. No frills, low cost, German run with lots of long term winter folk coming to the end of their winter. It’s what we need, close to the airport Julie is using to ‘commute’ to chemo, local shops, rock bar 🎸(though first impressions are that it’s a long way off my favourite Portuguese music bar 🤷‍♂️) 🤭 just space to hang out and take it easy - they even have a car I can hire for a couple of hours for the airport runs. So, nothing exciting going to happen here but the sun is starting to shine so what’s not to like 🤷‍♂️ ☀️

12/03/2026

It’s that time of year, 20 degrees and blue skies. The local Spanish have thick coats, ‘Brits Abroad’ in shorts and t-shirts 🤷‍♂️ I’ve gone jeans and t-shirt because it was 26 in the van when I left. It’s a ‘feeling discombobulated’ day. I dropped Julie off at the airport at 7am this morning. She’s already in the UK and had a blood test for Chemo Monday then hopefully 🙏 she’s back with me on Tuesday. 6 hours is feeling like 6 months ❤️. Still, we will make this commute work whilst the poison makes her better so we can play out together 🛝. We have a month or so more in 🇪🇸 then flights open so we can spend time in 🇫🇷 meanwhile a wee cervaza and Slow Horse on Kindle. 🇪🇺

04/03/2026

We’ve not posted much on here from this trip. gets a daily update, mainly because we found it so useful to look back upon previous trips. We’re now within a day of Vera, which is where I woke up in November and wondered whether I should change to an A class Motorhome. Well, we’re very pleased that we did. It seems totally symmetrical that I take Julie back to the site where I had those thoughts, and spent time negotiating for this van. We hope to catch up with a good friend of mine at the weekend in their nearby town.

28/02/2026

Let’s go! Winter schedule, relief ferry and very few vehicles or passengers. We’ve been out with the big toys on the bottom deck so either first off or last 🤷‍♂️. Thanks to the new electrical system we’ve left the freezer plugged in, gas is off for the ferry. Next stop 🇫🇷

27/02/2026

We’re a bit excited to get going so we drove a couple of miles from ‘home’ to wait for the ferry in the morning 🤭😂. It’s a fairly empty campsite 🏕️. Next stop 🇫🇷

22/02/2026

We have just updated our from last week (I’lll put a link in the comments). Just a few days away, more new-van shakedown, visit sons, try to find ‘cheap’ park-ups in England etc. As you may see in the video the trip didn’t start well! Night one was at a pub stop, ‘park on the grass’ they said. Lesson learnt and 10-ton grip matts on order! After that we really didn’t want any more pub stops so we found two £3 / night car parks, and a couple of more expensive ones 👍 plus we needed a small site one night to empty our black waste (two more cassettes have since arrived 👍👍). 7 nights, 2 NT properties, 3 canal related stops, catch up with son and a mate, one pub, one site and the rest ‘wild’. We reckon our electric and water will last 7-10 days off-grid and we now have toilet capacity for the same.

21/02/2026

We’re slowly catching up on Polar Steps with our little seven day trip last week. We had such a good time that we really forgot to take pictures! Anyhow, getting there.

https://www.polarsteps.com/Malcslife/24100826-can-we-find-a-parking-spot-in-england/217329693-guilsfield?s=deba1064-95f0-4e4c-9285-42862376fce0

More exciting is that we have a ferry booking now just days away, and today we were planning our Summer/Autumn destination ⛰️ which is VERY exciting 😍

We started to head south. In need of somewhere to dump our loo, and also to celebrate Julie’s 26th birthday (maybe I got those numbers wrong 😑) we headed into Wales for a small camp site. It was super, we were the only ones there on a site for five vans, with electric, water, drainage and a muc...

29/01/2026

Just dragging our channel back to travel, adventure and . Our extended static time is allowing me to finish off some jobs in the and it’s nice to be to see temperatures and gas levels, in addition to the electric situation from anywhere 🛀. Still installing another TV and a few bits, then beautification and we can share.

26/01/2026

Today didn’t go to plan. Today was Julie’s first chemotherapy on a jungle juice recipe her consultant introduced as being ‘punchy’. We arrived at the beautifully clean, and well-appointed chemo suite at Poole Hospital, and Julie was treated by a lovely nurse. Things didn’t go to plan… within minutes (8 to be exact) of the actual chemo being introduced, Julie lost consciousness. The nurse acted with swift, calm, professionalism, calling a ‘medical emergency’ (Crash) team, and taking swift action. Within minutes, numerous doctors (apparently consultant, E&E docs, an anaesthetist) and nurses were on hand, and thankfully with the speedy action of the initial nurse, Julie started to come around. An ECG was quickly conducted along with other obs, and she was passed to the Oncology doctor. With everything stabilised, more fluids were introduced, and Julie started to regain colour and her cognitive abilities. Before we left the hospital tonight, the Oncology doctor was speaking to her Consultant, and shortly after arriving home, the original nurse rang with the new treatment plan, and an invitation back to the same NHS facility at 9 am tomorrow.

The reason for this post is to simultaneously thank the NHS and highlight just how invaluable free healthcare at the point of need is. Sure, if you turn up to A&E with a stubbed toe, expect to wait hours…. Become unconscious during medical procedures and expect a roomful of trained, motivated, expert medics within minutes. There’s a well-known YouTube channel discussing the benefits of private medicine for cancer treatment. In no way, none, am I denigrating private medicine or its use, but I don’t believe they would have been equipped to handle today’s emergency so well. And unlike the USA, where treatment is aligned to means, the UK’s NHS stands as a world first. Remember this when you’re asked to vote. At least one party will promote the American system of privatised, insurance-funded medical care. They will claim it’s the way to ‘save’ the . Hopefully, you never have a day like today - when someone you love fades in front of your eyes. If you do, then you’ll want today’s NHS - not an ‘alternative funding model’.

25/01/2026

Chieftain of the puddin-race 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

21/01/2026

Day two of our mini escape. We queued up to buy very expensive tea, then drove to another pub 😬 for a very nice meal (excellent actually). Van is 🥰 home from home. The slope on this pub car park is hilarious, I’ll take a picture tomorrow. The self levelling has us held in mid-air (almost!).