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Our motorhome blog contains over a decade of blog posts. Starting when we quit work for our once in a lifetime tour of Europe.

We returned after two years and transformed our lives, achieving financial freedom, which enables us to travel whenever we want.

A very happy me at the top of the Col du Galibier, woo hoo!

Running Up the Col du Galibier, Slowly!

June 19, 2018

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The Col du Galibier's famous for torturing elite cyclists in the Tour de France, but not for muppets like me running up it in hats advertising sausages.

Ski Resorts in Summer – Chamrousse and Auris en Oisans, France

June 16, 2018

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Zagan the motorhome has the most amazing view looking out along the Gorges de i'Infernet he's in the motorhome aire at the ski village of Auris en Oisans.

The ILL: a nuclear reactor a stones-throw from a city centre

Sassenage, On the Edge of a Nuclear City (Grenoble)

June 13, 2018

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Zagan the motorhome's in the motorhome aire at Sassenage, where the Drac and Isère rivers merge at the northern end of the mountain city of Grenoble.

From the Gorges de la Bourne to Lans-en-Vercors

June 11, 2018

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Zagan the van's in the western Vercors, at a free aire at Lans-en-Vercors, the route here took us through the notorious and beautiful Gorges de la Borne.

That's the first corner, looking backwards.

An Amateur Cyclist on the Combe Laval, Vercors

June 8, 2018

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The Combe Laval is one of France's incredible balcony roads. Located in the Vercors Massif, near Grenoble, it's unsuitable for motorhomes, so Jay cycled it.