250 READERS' COMMENTS

Here, in chronological order, are some of the emailed comments we have received from readers and users of this website. To add yours, please Contact Us!

Alison Murugesu-Ghani (Malaysia) I just stumbled upon your site looking up campsites in Romania - it's awsome! We are a family of 3, into our 2nd month of a 2.5 year round the world overland expedition in our 4x4. Our website is www.malaysiansinmotion.com. Will watch your space and I think your experiences will be a great help to us along the way, and to many others, too.

Kevin Bergstrom (South Africa): It is really great to receive your letters and to hear that you are still on the road. You are visiting some fascinating places, that's for sure. I'm dead jealous.

Geoff Allan (England): Hi to you both, many thanks for the info you sent me earlier. Enjoying reading your trip through Turkey. I drove back to the UK from Dhahran in Saudi Arabia back in 1999 (Landrover), so all the place names in Southern Turkey into Greece have brought back some fond memories. We are hoping to drive to Cyprus in our motorhome next year to visit friends so your info on the ferries was interesting. Many thanks again, take care.

Tony and Karen Byrne (England): I very much appreciate your help to two novices in long-term travelling, as well as your quick response. Enjoy and thanks again.

Milton & Penella Monk (England): We cannot thank you enough for all the valuable information you have supplied these two virgins of motorhome travel. I'm sure the learning curve will be very steep to start with and mistakes will made. However with all the information supplied by you both and others we hope to keep them down to a manageable level. Once again many thanks and if we find ourselves in your neck of the woods perhaps we could meet up.

Hazel and Simon Jackson (England): Oh boy.... you 're just trying to make us all jealous aren't you! It looks fabulous and thank you for the update. Hope all continues well and you enjoy a great trip. Best wishes and happy travelling.

Bob Burgess (England): We've followed your travels with great interest. Hope you enjoy your remaining travels, will follow with interest.

Jax and Glenn Adams (England): It is lovely to hear from you, thank you for taking the time to answer. It sounds like you're having another great adventure. Wishing you lots of fun and interesting experiences.

Cindy and Martin Webb (England) To their friends: Our very good friends Barry & Margaret Williamson kindly publish the accounts of our journeys on their excellent website – magbaztravels.com – so if any of you want to keep track of our future travels, that is where to look. It is an excellent website to browse through anyway, highly recommended.

Verica Peacock (England): What a fascinating read your account of your wonderful journey halfway to Varanasi has been! Our trip through Sachsische Schweiz, Dresden, Potsdam, Berlin, Prague, etc, though enjoyable and exciting, pales into insignificance beside it.

Ray Berry (Crete): I very much enjoy reading about your travels. Thanks again for an excellent site, which has given me many hours of fascinating reading. Thanks for the lovely email, it would be wonderful to see you both anytime you feel like coming. All the very best with your travelling,

David and Karen Draper (from Greece): We decided to travel round Europe at the beginning of the year and I just wanted to say thanks for such a helpful and informative website! I found your website whilst doing some research on Eastern Europe and it has proved a very valuable source of information and parking spots. We are doing our journey in a self-converted VW Transporter and have so far driven down through Belgium, Holland, Germany, Czech Republic, Austria, Hungary, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria and are now entering the Peloponnese. Greece as you say really is a stunning place and we have found so many beautiful spots to park up for free as it is still relatively quiet and the beginning of the season. Anyway, enjoy your newest set of travels and perhaps we might bump into you somewhere down the way - we have only seen three other GB plates! Keep trucking and keep happy.

Steve and Ann Tomlinson (England): I love reading your blogs and following your travels. They are one of the main inspirations for us, along with our love of travel and motorhoming, for starting out on our new adventures. Thanks.

Ian Bonell (England): Thank you for a wonderful website. In our Swift motorhome, we have visited France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Czech Republic, Austria, Hungary, Italy, the Greek Peloponnese and back through France and Luxembourg. Suffice to say it was the best times of our lives. We are now one year into a five-year plan to go travelling full-time. Your web site has proved a real inspiration to us and a wealth of useful information. Once again, thanks for a great website: keep up the great work and happy travelling.

Ann O'Connell‏ (Eire): Thank you so much for your reply and all that info, we look forward to our adventure. I have spent several hours on your website today, printing off you info. I'm so excited at the thought of it, travelling of course!!. What a lovely way to spend your time travelling with such great freedom. Enjoy Turkey. I will continue to view your web site with intrigue. You're doing a GREAT job!

Pat Liddiard (England): Many thanks for responding to my enquiry. I got information from a journey you made last year when you travelled home from Greece, written in diary form, amongst all of your interesting info.Have thoroughly enjoyed reading through much of your web-site. Feel quite envious of the time you spend on travelling!

Anne Gryzowski (England): I have just finished reading your Balkan Return 2007 which I enjoyed very much. We are thinking of doing the same trip. Hope your are having fun wherever you are!

Jayne Doyle (England): I hope you are both well and happy and enjoying Greece (I think that's where you are now?) Enjoy! Many thanks for your reply and very helpful tips Barry. I will read, digest and look at your website for further detail. It does sound as though I am on the right lines though and preparing in the right way.

Norma and Brian Snowden (England): Thank you so much for your very comprehensive reply - all questions and queries taken care of!! Many many thanks once again and we will certainly pass on your regards to your Greek friends. Happy travelling.

Ann Honan (England): Thank you for the information on Sicily and for the trouble you took to help us.

Justin Candy (England): As ever thank you for the effort and time you put into your website, it is certainly our inspiration. Maybe we'll bump into one another one (not literally), but thanks in anticipation of any help you feel able to give.

Malcolm Hill (Canada): Thanks again for all your info. You do a wonderful service for us homeless folks. Hope we encounter each other again some day.

Cliff Anderson (New Zealand): My partner & I are making plans to do what you are doing. Travelling Europe in a motorhome.

Des Whearty (England): Really enjoying your diary. Only recently found the site. Thanks!

Angela Grimshaw (England): Thanks for your help Barry & Margaret, your advice is great. I will pass your email onto my dad, he will be very grateful.

Susan Guscott (England) Thank you so much for your reply. Yes I agree about the freedom of the bicycle, we have spent many happy days cycling in different countries, of late in Italy last spring. Surprising what you come across sometimes isn't it! In the meantime, happy travels.

Dave Whiteman (England): I contacted you a few months ago and you very kindly gave us very good advice. Many thanks again for your advice, it is very much appreciated! Will keep in touch.

Neil Coles (England): I stumbled across your website this morning completely by accident. I have to say that what I saw totally amazed me! In case you haven't already realised, I am the person that bought 'Rosie'. Just to let you know that, although I haven't actually been on the road yet, she has already given me such a great deal of pleasure. I am looking forward to doing some touring in the summer.

Joanna Lawrence (England): Just reading about your travels has given me goosebumps....we are off in 6 weeks, initially for the summer in the UK and then hopefully down to Spain for winter. Many thanks and happy travels - hope to see you out there!!

Julia Waugh (England): Hi, I found the work on your site really mesmerizing.

David Burley (of www.motorhomefacts.com and England):) We regularly get comments from people saying what a great site you have. We added a link to your site in our travel links section so hopefully others will find your site and get useful information from it. Good luck with your travels.

Anita Sheard (England): I have scoured your fascinating website. What a great resource!

William Binney (England): Thanks for your information on Greece. I bet you think you are in heaven! Thanks once again and enjoy your travels in safety.

James Rowley (Jersey): Thank you very much for the useful information on routes to Slovenia. We hope you continue to enjoy your travels.

Rita e Renzo (Italy): First of all our warm compliments for a great site indeed. Many thanks for your kind attention and hoping to exchange your courtesy as far as Italy is concerned or some of other areas we visited, we remain, yours very truly.

Bill & Ruby Johnson (Australia): How rich your lives are with the amazing people you meet, how lucky we are to meet them too.

Klaus Gruner (Germany) I just came across your website. Good reading and I also liked to see the photos.

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Gerry & Di (England): Planing trip to Greece via Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria. Your website is brill and inspiration to all with the travel bug.

Gill & John Coupe (England): We are getting so much info from your site - it is excellent! Many thanks for your email. Do hope that the recent earthquake didn't affect you at all and we will certainly keep in touch with you during our travels - never know, our paths might cross?!

Geoff Allan (England): Really enjoy the website keep up the good work.

Colin Hamilton (England): I am enjoying reading the accounts of your trip, very informative!

Michael Thompson (England): We're planning to start long-term touring and have found loads of the info on your site useful - thanks.

Martin and Jane Day (England): As novices we contacted you before starting our travels in September. You were very enthusiastic, as we are 5 months later. The best thing we have ever done.

Juliet (England): I am not a motor homer, but one of my colleagues, Audrey, regularly reads your website articles and raved about the site so much that I thought I'd check it out too.

Anthony (England): Fantastic journey, do you have any advice for the South Island of New Zealand. I'm being told it's difficult to cycle because of the distances between the towns and lack of amenities?

Ian Shires (Hungary): Thanks for the info. After wasting my time on various websites I found that yours is the best.

Stephen Stewart (England): Thanks for your collected insurance wisdom, just what I was looking for.

Richard Francis (England) What a great web site you have, keep up the good work. I have linked to your site. I would be honoured to have my link (www.richardfrancis.com) on your site. Hoping to meet up with you one day.

Andy Stothert (England): Thanks for taking the time to respond so thoroughly to my request for information. Hopefully our paths will cross somewhere warm and deserted in southern Greece some time.

Alan and Lesley Mann (England): Thank you very much for taking the time to reply in such a comprehensive manner. I will use the links you provide to read the information available. I have been on your website many times and really enjoy it. Lesley and myself are very much looking forward to our European trip or adventure as I like to look upon it. We hope to experience many of the countries you have visited. I will keep tabs on your travels via your web site between now and when we leave.

Howard Cook (England): Kind regards to you both on this a very wet January day in London. We have started a blog in preparation for the start of our next life, www.honotravels.co.uk. It's always a pleasure to read yours.

Bill & Anne Binney (England): Your website is like a bible to all motorhomers out there - full of info & pics, great!! Thank you for your return email - you have been very helpful with your answers, I very much appreciate it. Enjoy the rest of your trip and take care.

Terry & Shir Carvell (England): We have read some of your notes on some of your trips. We have just retired, sold the house and bought an Autotrail Arapaho - 28 ft - big enough for us to live in. We hope to do a lot of travelling in the UK and Europe.

Peter Byrne (England): Your are great. Many thanks.

Ilene Atkins (England): Hi. I've been Googling ancestral spots in Sweden, and came across your journal through there. You passed through my grandparents' birthplace, Asele. I've been exploring my own connections to the past. I appreciated your story and pictures. It looks just like I imagined it would. Thank you.

James Smith (England): Love your site, full of great info.

Tom Salmon (Florida, USA): For consideration to your fine site, we submit our URL to our travel blog of 2 Yanks touring Europe and Asia Minor (so far) in our Winnebago View, named Papillon: www.papillontravels.net. Love your site and the info therein.

Patricia Tribelhorn (Ireland): I wish you a very Happy New Year and good luck touring the world.

Burt Cottle (England): Your web site is great - thanks

Jim and Jackie Morris (Greece): For the last 3 years we have been cycling around Europe, having left the UK on recumbent trikes with trailers. We plan to be near you in the New Year and it would be great for us if we could meet up and pick your brains.

Lesley and Geoff Tutt (England): We have managed to source a lot of info from your brilliant web site but still are unsure of . . . . look forward to hearing from you when you get a chance.

James Brown (Motorhome Fun, England): There are a few of us on www.motorhomefun.co.uk (hundreds of RVers) that follow your travels on your website. Keep it up its a delight. Meanwhile I look forward to more of your writing and photos.

Christine Strawson (England): I'm so glad to see you both back on your travels again! I'm a covert fan of your diaries and, if I can't be away in our motorhome, then you are the next best thing. I do hope your present journey is all that you hope for and will look forward to reading about it. Best wishes and thanks for the advice and pleasure I have gleaned from your site.

Sally Young (England): Hi there, just checked out (although very quickly) your site and it looks excellent and full of very useful info. We intend to full-time in - well anywhere the road takes us actually - starting out in France, but we don't really have a strict route after that, just really want to see as much of life as we can, Any other information AT ALL that you could possibly give us would be very very much appreciated.

Roger & Andrea Seymour (Cardiff, South Wales): I have just found your web site and have found it absolutely riveting, thank you. We wish you well for your next expedition.

David Mattinson (England): Great site, we are planning a Croatia, Montenegro, Greece trip: can you give advice on gas?

Karen Mickleson (USA): Greetings, Barry and Margaret! You are beacons on my horizon. I get lost for hours on your site, following and envying your travels, so first I want to thank you for your inspiration and helpful practical information. With warm regards and hopes you are having fun,

Libby and Terry (England): Thank you SO much for your speedy reply with all that info!!! I had a real good look at the links and they are most informative - what a great site you have put together. WOH! and to think we are just going across to Europe with lots of excitement, quandaries etc. Happy days!

Helen & Ted Kiddie (New Zealand): Just a short note to say how grateful we are reading through your website and all the wonderful info we have collected from it to help us when we are motorhoming around Europe next year. We will email you when we are in Europe; you never know we may be in the same area at the same time and we would love to catch up and hear first hand all your wonderful experiences. Very happy to see that you are back on the road again. We trust you are living in luxury with the new motorhome.

Debbie and Neil Manson (England): We are avid followers of your website! We intend to do what you both have been doing (without all of the cycling though!!) We will be taking your advice and intend to winter in Greece this year. We would love to meet you both and hope to see you on our travels. Keep up the good work with the website.

Andy and Sue (England): Hiya. Thanx for your excellent website. Spending the next 3 years in our motorhome in Europe: both keen skiers and will be spending winters skiing.

Dave Whiteman (England): Greetings to you both. We have got itchy feet again and will be setting off in the New Year for an open-ended European tour. Your website is wonderful, a mine of information. Many thanks for taking the time and trouble to email me. There is a lot of very useful information and I have added your website to my favourites so that we can continually use it as a reference point. I will drop you an email from time to time and sincerely hope that we can thank you with a glass or two of wine sometime in the future!

Stephen Stewart (England): Thanks for your collected insurance wisdom, just what I was looking for. (I had a 7.5 tonne Unimog insured with the NFU.) You might find www.silkroute.org.uk of interest and maybe the 'What Van' page might help in your search for a new van.

Steve & dogs (England): It was lovely to meet with you and talk with you for the briefest of time. Talking with you evoked very strong memories and this briefest of conversations has re-awakened me. Thank you. Long may you travel and open others' eyes that have been closed so long.

Maureen Donovan (England): You were very helpful when we went to Croatia in 2005 - it was wonderful.

Jacqui Young (Australia): Love your informative web site - very comprehensive and fun too!

Julie & Martyn Skinner (England): Really just wanted to thank you again for your advice. We dip into your website from time to time, it makes for great reading and is very inspiring.

Jane and Martin Day (England): Many thanks for your prompt reply to my email about Croatia insurance. We have investigated your site and find it full of useful and fascinating info. Your enthusiasm must be catching.

Paul Crilley (England): A great website. We really enjoy reading your website and we both find it very informative. Please keep up the great work, you never know we might meet up one day and discuss all our adventures. My website is: www.crillpix.com

Paul, Tara & Family (England): We came across your website today while researching the beginnings of our new life. I read your stories with great excitement and thanks for all the hints and tips - a Bible to the new full-timer. We are off to tour Europe, following the Sun, just as soon as we can. You are certainly an inspiration, good luck on your continuing travels.

Ann & Jim Stones (England): How I managed to log on to your web site I honestly do not know. It certainly was fortuitous and happened as we were planning our trip through Poland, the Baltic states, Finland, Sweden and Denmark. Having just returned I thought I would let you know just how much we enjoyed having a printout of your travels with us. You really do have an excellent site! Where on earth do you get the time to keep it updated? We do envy you your travels, but don't do to badly ourselves! Good luck to you both.

Theo and the Maniski-Luke family (England): What an impressive website. Thanks!

Lois and Ron Richardson (Canada): Thanks for your always interesting mail. We live vicariously through you, though still enjoying our own soft little trips here and there.

Helen Vaughan (England): Thank you both so much for such an interesting and informative website - we love it!

Patricia Tribelhorn (Ireland): Thanks for your lovely website and the nice interesting pictures.

Peter Byrne (Republic of Ireland): I just discovered your web site last night. it is wonderful.

Jim and Elle Dover (Australia): We feel a bit guilty reading about your travels all the time without saying thank you for the fantastic effort you have made of documenting them all. Thanks, what you have done is almost unbelievable, and as for coming back here and riding from Perth to Darwin, didn't you suffer enough across the Nullarbor? Incredible. Never know, we may catch up on the road one day. Thanks again and safe travels

Cath and Nick Louth (England): Thanks very much for your update. As always, you give us itchy feet. All the best to you both and looking forward to all the news from your next world tour,

Christine Jarvis (England): Good luck with your trip. It sounds gruelling as well as exciting. I hope you find South America fascinating - when will you run out of new places? The light in some of the photographs is fabulous, thank you. I love those greeny/blues on the water. Have a great time.

Jeanne (USA): I just came across this site and think it is fabulous. We are a family of 3 doing a multi year RTW trip and have been in Europe the last 8 months (with a short trip into Africa with more to come). As Americans, we are kind of rare birds on this side of the pond with a motorhome, plus the fact that we are homeschooling as we go. We are learning lots as we go and having a blast too. We have lots of adventures planned for the next 7 months including Greece, Turkey, Croatia, Slovenia, Hungary, Romania, Czech, maybe Poland and short flight into Russia and two months in Italy in the fall. I love this site and cannot wait to read more!

Hazel Jackson (England): Isn't it interesting how many people are doing such great and exciting trips: lots to read on your excellent site. I need more time! Best wishes and thank you both for your help, Take care and good travelling and have fun.... we're all with you in spirit if not in body!  ( Maybe that would be a bit of a squeeze in the old moto!).

Anna Williams (en route to Montenegro): I love your website, and envy your lifestyle. My partner and I are going to Montenegro. Many thanks again for your help, if you could let me know about the question on border insurance that would be fabulous.

James Cherrington (England): I was browsing through your impressive website and wondered whether you could help me. I am travelling through Europe this summer for 6 weeks, in my beloved VW Bay Window Camper and would like to camp wild. From your extensive travels do you have any advice for me?

David Robinson (Australia): Wow, great website, you've done so much travelling! I've bookmarked it to read in leisure later. Good for you - it must be a great life wandering about all over the place – so much to see, to feel, to experience. Maybe our paths will cross someday - more likely if we stay in touch.

Jayne Moore (England): Wow - lots of times I've wondered about where you are. What a lot of travelling about you are both doing ... incredibly technical website. I envy the places you are seeing but not the way in which you seem to be experiencing them - very matter of fact - but perhaps that is due to the limitations imposed by language. I really hope that you have both found some satisfaction in your lives. Clearly you have 'done a lot' and hopefully that has gone hand in glove with satisfaction.

Barney and June (England): We do log onto magbaztravels from time to time: your pieces are by far our favourites with the most information, humour and interest per megabyte/pixcel/square inch. The last email about Sarajevo was yet another aspect of life on the road.

Dave and Suzie Simpson (England): after many years of thinking about it, and taking in lots of enthusiasm and advice from your website, we've taken the plunge!! Last Wednesday afternoon we collected our Ducato Rotec from a dealer north of Hamburg. Drove from the ferry direct to Motorhome Medics (you are right, they can walk on water) and within 24hours we have an MOT, full service and the outside cleaned! Again, many thanks for all you advice, perhaps we'll meet one day, Very kind regards to you both.

Davin and Cathy Palmer (Greece): Cathy and I are on a CTC tour from 6 to 20 May, starting at and returning to Zakynthos. We go via Olympia, Dimitsana, Vityna, Tripoli, Napthlio, Leonido, Sparta, Kalamata, Kiparissia, Olympia, Killini and Zakynthos. We hope you are still having a great time on behalf of us workers!

Julie & Martyn Skinner (travelling in Croatia): Wow thanks for such a detailed response - wasn't expecting such a prompt reply. We will check out your website asap and will let you know our chosen route. Thanks again, have a good break in the UK.

Tony McCann (Cyprus): You are incredible. Wow, what more can I ask. You have given me all the options I need, said all the right things, so glad we 'met', thanks a million, I'll let you know how I get on.

Dan Lanier (USA): I find your site very interesting. You are indeed a wealth of information. I can see why MMM and others would want you writing for them. Thanks so much for your quick and informative response to my inquiry about the gas situation. It sounds like ya'll are enjoying life.

Bob & Judi Burns (USA): Your adventures in Greece sound really fascinating

Paul and Ffiona Wrigley (England): I've had a good trawl through your web site and found it fascinating, some really good useful info, thanks.

Sandy Campbell-Smith (England): What a splendid site you have created. There is so much informative and inspiring information there. And it is so beautifully written.

Tom and Judy Salmon (USA): Thank you so much for taking the effort to write up your travels. We enjoy following your trips, especially since we plan on passing through the Balkans this spring and summer.

Peter and Sue Middleton (England): The Caravan Club gave us your web site and it is quite excellent. Your slide shows are superb. Many thanks for your help.

Mark Waters (CTC, England): Fantastic! Many thanks. The pleasure, I can assure you, is all mine!

Bernie & Lyn Phillips (England): I have been enjoying your web site and admire what you are doing. Many thanks for your reply to our query, it is reassuring to know that one can get around these problems without too much stress. Looking at your website, and the A-Z of long-term travelling, you are an inspiration to anyone thinking of pursuing the dream.

Patricia Bird (England): I hope you are enjoying your down time in Greece, it really sounds lovely. Looking forward to your posting and articles in MMM. Happy cleaning!

Trish Ward (England): Your website is wonderfully helpful - thank you very much.

Hazel Havell (Caravan Club, England): A great web-site! It was recommended to me by one of our overseas site inspectors. Wow!! What a fantastic answer!! Thank you so much, I think you should change your website address to the Oracles!!

Graham Peacock (England): Thanks a lot for all that - great to hear from you. I envy your lifestyle and am so impressed with the multiplicity of information for just about everywhere on your website. I normally take about 20+ books with me to read on our 'short' summer trek but this year perhaps I will read your e-reports and envy.

Brian Macdonald Watson (Scotland): Many thanks for your very positive and supportive words re the kids' cycling saga (John and Sally Watson are cycling from London to Delhi – visit their website: www.cyclingtoindia.com.

Moira James (USA): I found your site in the MMM and will now spend some time reading it; it looks full of great info on places that interest us. Many thanks for your prompt and informative reply. Your advice was much as we expected but it is good to have it confirmed by experienced travellers.

Brian and Jen Kay (England): Just hit upon your site as we have been planning a long tour of Europe. I am sure there are many things you may be able to offer advice and comments on and look forward to mailing you in the future. Keep enjoying yourselves.

Liz Woods (England): Your website is such a mine of information and so interesting. I don't know how you have the time to keep it up. Such a wonderful free way of life you have had.

Gary Dorward (Scotland): Thanks for taking the time to answer my email so quickly and thanks again for your advice.

Peter & Jeanette Harrison-Sleap (England): Thanks for all the good info.

Marlene Ross (USA): My husband Roy and I met (and rescued) Ian (Hibell) while travelling in Alaska in the summer of 1996. We have kept in touch with him ever since. We received his early "Happy Christmas" card today. In it he provided us with this website. It's so great to get caught up on his recent adventures!! Isn't he amazing!!!?

Tom and Jenny (Scotland): Been on your excellent site for last hour or so! Brill! My wife and I are going to expand our horizons and instead of going back to Spain again we are heading to either Umag or Porec in Croatia.

David Bennett (Australia): I read your interesting article on insurance, and wondered if you could advise me of any agent who will issue motorhome insurance for a non-resident of the UK?

David Dunn (England): We discovered your website today and found it excellent and would love to follow in your footsteps one day. While in Belgium, we did some wild camping, which we thoroughly enjoyed: something different everyday and, as you say, meeting the world's people. Can't wait to do it again.

Derek Rust (England): Very interested to see your website. Am visiting Cuba in late March and would like to do some cycle touring. With your vast experience I wonder if you have any advice about hiring a decent bike in Cuba. (Later) Thanks for that. Very useful indeed, as is you website in general.

Bob and Glynys Burgess (England): Really good to have you back on line again ,we did wonder all over Xmas how you were getting on. Have much enjoyed your travels this summer and autumn. Can I offer my thanks for : the info on the Swiss tolls, none of the clubs seem to carry this info.

James Reid (England): Love your website, very helpful and entertaining.

Ray & Angie (England): I have enjoyed your website very much and have found it very useful. Angie and I will be full-timing from February 2007.

Michael and Wendy (England): Hi, just finished reading about your travels in Norway, I and my partner are planning much the same trip for next year. Tell me did you get to see the lights?

Howard & Norma Cook (England): We have been reading your fantastic web site for the past year, and have decided to do the same. World here we come, counting the days, thank you for your inspirational ramblings.

Martin and Ann Addis (England): Best wishes and many thanks for keeping such a site which I'm sure will prove invaluable.

Peter and Sheila Bird (England): Many thanks for answering my questions re-Croatia and sending some very useful advice, my wife Sheila and I are really looking forward to going.

Mike Riley & Jackie Smith (England): Just read your 'Magbaz' which has convinced me Motorhoming is the way to go when not sailing. My partner Jackie and myself love to travel and a motorhome seems a great way to travel around Europe in the winter. Your comments have proved very informative and a pleasure to read. Many thanks for taking the time to pass onto others (less experienced) your experiences. Good Luck and we'll keep reading your adventures.

Don and Maureen Madge (England): Thanks for the Internet on the Move, it makes very interesting reading. I took the liberty of posting it on the four main motorhome forums and it was very well received, there were many positive comments as an article like that was well overdue.

Sue Boxer (England): We have recently come across this site and were very impressed by your A to Z of Long-term Motorhoming. We are always on the look out for new and interesting features and feel that this would be ideal for our next issue of our magazine (Roamin Times).

Brian and Pat Anderson (England): What an excellent article (Internet on the Move) which I am sure would be published by any 'travelling magazine'. Thanks for including me in your email list.

Mike Gilpin (England): As novice motor home owners we have decided (as I'm sure many do) to ignore logic and launch ourselves off to Spain over Christmas/New Year after collecting the vehicle (Autosleeper Clubman) next week. Having read up on the practicalities - paperwork, safety, spares etc - I'm reasonably comfortable with those issues but would appreciate any little 'extras' you may have to share.

. . . . . . Many thanks for your quick reply and I will certainly follow up on your suggestions. Enjoy your next trip.

Ian Hibell (World Traveller): Wonderful and thoughtful stuff. Thank you.

Sally Seymour (USA): Barry, I know you are wise and take the long view of history - but I am unable to do that and continue to loath GWB & Co.

Walter Meikle (England): I found your web page to be the most useful provider of good, sound, sensible information on motorhoming especially the AtoZ, thank you for taking the time and effort to produce this excellent piece of work.

Ian Rowden (England): Hello, some impressive travels and a fantastic website. I have been travelling also for some time and write articles and booklets for VW owners. I am hoping to set up a website soon.

Justin & Anne Candy (England): I read all your travel logs with great interest, always disappointed if I log on and you haven't had an opportunity to update. I guess at one level I just wanted to say thank you for the obvious time and trouble you take in writing up your travels in such an interesting and informative way. We will continue to read and enjoy your exploits, planning some of ours to travel in your wake.

Glenn Harvey (England):  We hopefully will be on the road for a year or two . . . your thoughts would be much appreciated. Hope you are having fun where you are now.

Kim Barnes (England): We have read many of your articles and they have helped us enormously, especially when travelling through Romania and Bulgaria. Many thanks for your help. Hope you continue to have a good journey and enjoy Sweden.

John Watson (Hebrides, Scotland): Eschewing the "Three Gs" of retirement - golf, grandchildren and gardening - Barry and Margaret left the UK twelve years ago and now live on the road full-time. Although I'm looking forward to indulging in a bit of topiary and dishing out Werthers Originals in later years, I admire what they are doing and above all their spirit of adventure. As seasoned long-distance cyclists, they are very interested in our trip and offer lots of helpful advice. Barry and Margaret are also the Bulgaria and Romania roaming reporters for Motorcaravan Motorhome Monthly, the UK's top-selling motorhome magazine. They have excellent knowledge of roads and camp-sites, as well setting us straight on basics like the Hungarian exchange rate. Hearty conversation, rich tea biscuits and a ploughman's lunch trump plans for an early start, but it's worth it for a very enjoyable encounter with kindred spirits. John and Sally (who we met in Esztergom, Hungary) are cycling to India - follow them on: www.cyclingtoindia.com.

Maureen Wright (Canada): I just read your website briefly but plan to go over it in detail. We are headed back (to Europe) to follow almost exactly the route you took. We have all the worries and misgivings you have outlined, so are now feeling much more comfortable about our route. There is so much to learn from people who have gone before us! Good on you for sharing.

Patricia Bird (England): Here am I just about to embark on full-timing, and what do I find, your amazing site! All the advice especially the security tips will be so useful.

Lois and Ron Richardson (Canada): Thank you for continuing to include us in your mailings. You really put us to shame with our trips these days. Keep on truckin'!

Daniel and Rodica Pop (Romania): Hallo Liebe Freunde, Danke fur ihre wunderbare Fotos; ist fantastik was unser Gott geschaffen hat in dieser Welt fur uns Menschen. Preis der Herr. Viel Liebe in Jesus verbunden, Haleluia. Amen. Margaret translates this as: "Hello, Dear Friends. Thank you for your wonderful photos. It's fantastic what our God has created in this world for all of us. Praise the Lord. Much love united in Jesus. Halleluiah. Amen."

Dave & Carol Hughes (in France): Hope you're both keeping well. Thanks for your emails, we find it very interesting to hear where you are and appreciate you taking the time to reply. Thanks for the offer of a link to our website from yours; hopefully by the time you get this it should be up and running. Sorry to bother you with such mundane questions (about cleaning tanks and wash-basins), but you always seem to have the best answers!

Will and Fleur Blanford (England): Great website! Heard about you through MMM. Thank you so much for the brilliant help! Have maps open and are studying...will get back to you just to let you know what route we decide on. So grateful for help. As always thank you so much for the great info and really useful updates. Your trips and those of your fellow travellers sound amazing! We are most envious!! It's good to know that the route we intend to take is do-able and we are definitely looking forward to the adventure (Driving to Greece via Montenegro and Albania, returning via Bulgaria and Romania). Watch this space . . . we will keep in touch.

John and Liz Saunders (England): I have just opened your email and we absolutely loved it - it is spreading round the globe. Hope that your travel continues well - please keep us posted.

Davin Palmer (in Greece): Just a quick note to say I have just stumbled across your accounts of cycle tours in the Peloponnese on the CTC tours list. It is of great interest to me as . . . a cyclist I am mad keen on the area. I notice you have been going for some time and obviously know the area well.

Alfred P. Bright (England): Thank you for your detailed and helpful advice which I am now relaying to my pal and hope that your advice will help him to sort out what seems quite a complicated farce! Nevertheless, he is determined to be a traveller before he gets too old so I daresay he will persevere just as you have done. Best wishes for good health, excellent karma and God Bless.

Joy & Ian Riley (England): We are planning a visit to Croatia - thanks for a superb website

Vivienne Bloomfield (England): Just coming to the end of planning our trip to Turkey travelling via France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and back via Greece, Italy and France and would just like to say how useful and entertaining I've found your website. Quite a few pages of info will be travelling with us!

Nigbo (from Mexico): Hi! I saw your web page in a mag and have just had a great hour! I`ve been travelling since I was 17, and I just wanted to say well done on turning into wanderers! On my return to Germany I`m off for a month's bimble in my 20 year old transit hightop, sort of south east-ish. Anyhow, good roads, and big skies.

Bob and Glynys Burgess (England): Back in UK after a very successful trip. We took some pictures in Dubrovnik nearly identical to yours! Thanks again for your advice, we certainly had the best of the European weather. Following your latest trip with interest, hope you have a great time.

Jonathan Side (England): Hi, cool site - cool van. I think Ecuador's calling again. Look after yourselves, and hello to Arad and stuff.

Martin & Kathryn Law (England): I visit your web site regularly for an update on your travels and continue to find it very helpful with my planning.

Pat Harrison (England): Many thanks for your very prompt reply. The information you sent was very useful, and I am looking forward to joining my husband Tom in September for a very interesting trip. I will keep you informed on my return. Many thanks again and also for the useful links

Murdoch Mackenzie (Scotland): Thanks for these absolutely stunning photographs helping us to enter into another world - one which we remember from long ago.

Shelia and Paul Barker (England): Am looking forward to continuing reading your site. I realised that I had much to catch up with your wonderful travels and have spent a happy day reading through your equally admirable web site - so much enjoyable reading and I still have lots more to read.

Sally Riggall (England): What lovely images. It all looks so peaceful. Good to hear from you and thanks for your last email - some interesting points on living in France.

John and Sally Watson (Scotland and England): We really enjoyed meeting you. No doubt there will be a bit of a break from it when we have kids, but cycle touring is something we want to be doing all our lives. So it is great and inspiring when we meet people older than us who are still racking up the miles ... and covering considerably more than us on a daily basis!

Ann & Harry Tock (England): Thank you for the information so far and let me say a big thank you for taking the time to answer our queries. Your site gives such a lot of information which can be adapted for most of the questions relating to full-time. I am still going back to it and re-reading some information.

Stephen and Kay (England): I have been perusing your website over the winter months - indeed it is now in my "favourites" on the toolbar. Currently I am full-timing in a caravan, but "The Beast" arrives next week! It's an Autotrail Scout with which I hope to emulate your adventures. Our current plans are that in September we will sail to France. On arrival, we will turn right, follow the coast until November arrives and then return via central Spain and France. Perhaps, one sunny day, our paths will cross and we will sup a glass or four. I do so hope so!! I just had to say what an inspiration you have been to me. Bon Jour!!!!

Audrey (England): I've read your articles in MMM over the years and log in regularly to read your well written and interesting travel logs. I want to do exactly what you are doing when I retire and your articles inspire me in my ambition. Enjoy your travels and I shall continue to enjoy reading about them.

Peter (England): Thank you for this site, I have followed your travels with interest as your articles were printed from time to time in MMM. I am at present recovering from a heart attack and have thoroughly enjoyed the wider view of your travels that this site provides. It is also giving me a clearer idea of the things I want to do in the future.

Martin and Kathryn Law (England): My wife and I are going full time in our 5th wheeler from September this year. We intend to spend 2 years or so in Europe and have found your various articles very helpful. I think (with the help of your articles) that I have prepared for the adventure in all other respects but would be very grateful for any advice you could offer with regard to LPG. Hope you are enjoying your current travels and maybe we will bump into you along the way.

Jeff and Maxine (England): Just a few lines to say thanks for your useful and inspirational web site. When we made the decision to sell our house, buy a motorhome and spend as many years as we can touring France, Spain, and Italy, we thought it was our idea, we didn't know that others were leading this way of life, and we were not aware of the term FULL TIMERS. So now we have started the ball rolling and we look forward to setting off on our adventure as soon as possible.

Joan and Peter Waddington (England): We would like to thank you for the fulltiming information. It will help us to go fulltiming later in the year. You have provided all the information that we may require. Thank you both once again.

Tim and Helen (England): Just read your site, what a wealth of info, thanks very much. We are currently looking at campers with a view to going fulltiming and will hopefully join you in a couple of years. Love to see you on the road somewhere. Good luck and happy travelling.

Graham Peacock (England): Great to hear from you. Your 'traveller' status is well known in the caravan world!  Have had a look at your comprehensive web site which is very informative - well done.

Vicki Phillips (Singapore): Have read your excellent A-Z, this has added much to our previous research.

Keith & Jenny Dear (England): We have been avidly scanning your most excellent web site, this has proved very useful to us. Very many thanks for your thorough reply to our queries, we greatly appreciate your help. Will be in touch again shortly, probably with another long list of items!

Bill Ord (England): Love the web-site. Isn't the Aire at Oradour wonderful?

Bob and Glynys Burgess (England): We met very briefly at Camping Thines in May 2004 (just after the big storm!) We have found your full timing articles and your website both excellent. This year we will be going to Croatia for the first time so have found your info especially useful. Thanks again.

Ray and Geraldine Byrne (England): I found this website by accident and found it so full of info. My wife and I are going full-timing when we retire, as we want to be young enough to enjoy it. Many thanks for the tips in website journals, they will come in handy.

Sue and John Brincat (England): Many thanks for your valuable advice. It has really helped to focus the mind on the route.

Carol & Dave Hughes (England): I would like to say how much we enjoy your website with all your wonderful stories & information, it really is a good read.

Graham and Kay Rees (Australia): Love your website - informative and interesting.

Joelle and Alex Hoggan (England): We found your site via MMM, and read the A-Z of full-timing with great interest. Thank you for compiling such a detailed list.

Greg (England): Just a quick line to say I enjoyed your website and reading your travels. I have lived in a self-converted van for a while when relocating to Devon, so I could relate to a lot of the "challenges" you experienced.

Brian and Patricia Rudd (England): I am really enjoying reading your diaries, I have a few books lined up yet, but haven't got to them for reading your diaries. Again thanks for all your reading and information, absolutely invaluable.

Caroline Cain (England): We thoroughly enjoy our web-site. We have been thinking a long time before deciding to buy a motorhome. Yesterday we have put the order in!

Enid Martin (England): I have found your web-site fascinating....if only to capture David's Diary.

Graham and Kay Rees (Australia): Love your web site - informative and interesting.

John and Heather Lucas (England): Just a quick note to thank you for the prompt response to our email. I've checked out your website and a wealth of information is there. I'll be in touch again shortly and benefit from your experience, and share our plans with you. Happy travels!

Bob Moore (England): We read with interest your exploits travelling from home towards Greece. Very tempted to go there next winter. Just off to Portugal and Spain for 5 weeks or so. Have a safe journey. We'll be keeping up with you via the www.

Joy & Ian Riley (England): Discovered your excellent web site through MMM magazine. In 2004 we took a Maui rental van from Cairns to Adelaide and have recommended your site to friends doing likewise this Spring. We are currently planning trips to Italy, Croatia and Montenegro for this year and are finding your articles most helpful...keep up the good work!

Stewart and Shona Wall (England): We are in the throes of planning a motorhome purchase to do a lot of travel as well. Your site is proving very helpful.

Brian and Patricia Rudd (England): Thank you for your information. We first came across you in the MMM, A to Z of full timing , quite some time ago. We are enjoying your travelogues. You give us hope and inspiration.

Ian Joblin (New Zealand): I am a Kombi camper, you could say a hunting, shooting, fishing type. I enjoy reading your NZ journeys. Kindest thoughts.

Sheila and Paul Barker (England): This superb site is packed with excellent travel articles, pictures and experience from European and world-wide ventures; wherever you plan to travel, you'll gain valuable help and advice from the Williamson's travel site. Your magnificent site certainly contains such a wealth of valuable experience and advice.

Lois and Ron Richardson (Canada): Your travels are an inspiration and joy to read about.

Steve and Sheila Pyke (England): Your website is very interesting with lots of useful information and photos. We found the contributions from other motorhomers useful.

Larry Hansen  (England): Thanks loads for your quick response.  This was very helpful.

Wulf Berg (USA): I love your web-site.

Arthur and Cilla Morris (England): Thanks for your immediate reply to my request. Also your information on your website. Makes us want to set off right away.

Jane Swindail (England): The wonders of modern science - from us in Devon to you in Nevada and onto your website in less than 24 hours!

Russell and Rosemary Wood (Australia): We will definitely follow up the recommendations on your website (on the use of LPG in Europe).

Chris Wycoff (US Truck Driver): You have a very nice website.

Peter Frankland (England): Congratulations on the incredible web site.

John Foster (Greece): Great to see that you seem to be "getting your kicks . . . .". Amazing images. We have with us two twenty-something girl wwoofers from Portland Oregon who have spent the past three years working at a "Dude Ranch" at the Canyon. The girls have been viewing your pix and jumping up and down with nostalgic excitement! 

Fred and Roma Alberts (India): Beautiful photos of the Grand Canyon. 

Ruby and Bill Johnson (Australia): Wonderful to hear and see you are still ploughing onwards,and getting your kicks on route 66!

Pauline Wardle (New Zealand): Really enjoyed reading your website; look forward to reading the next update. I have also referred your website to a friend who is travelling to India next holidays. I am going to upgrade my bike and get cycling this summer with a long-term view of cycling in Vietnam. You have inspired me

Ian Inglis (Scotland): Wow - I don't know of anyone who has their own website! I feel very privileged. Is it OK if I name drop occasionally?

Alistair MacDonald (Scotland): I am genuinely envious. I have just started to look at travelling through Europe in a motorhome for retiring in three years' time. Your web site is excellent and will save me a lot of work. Like you, I plan to travel for an extended period of time and I look forward to your future articles or updates in your web page. All the best in your travels.

Ken Norris (England): Congratulations on your editorship.

Cynthia Webb (England): We enjoy reading your articles and letters in MMM, always informative. Now we have checked out your website and think that too is great. Keep up the good work and continue to enjoy your travels.

Steve Clark (England): Just discovered your website, superb, and inspirational. I am considering selling up and full timing in the near future, your A to Z helps to answer so many questions.

Paul Montgomery (Northern Ireland): In July my son and I travelled to Romania and Bulgaria in our motorhome. Your articles in MMM January and March 2005 proved invaluable. Once again many thanks for all the advice provided in your articles. Incidentally, I've just read your account of travelling round Australia in the September 2005 edition of MMM. We've done the East Coast section in a rented campervan but would love to do the full circuit some time.

Lindsay and Nick Whitlock (England): Your website is fantastic and providing links to other travellers is a great way to keep it interesting - not to imply, of course, that your own continuing adventures aren't enough on their own.

Maggie Bevis (England): Slovenia was wonderful and your info helped us. I think we're hooked on motorhoming, as when we got home last night we almost went back to the van to sleep as we couldn't settle.

Bob and Judi Burns (Round-the-World Sailors from USA): We are jealous - have a Steinlager for us!

Maureen Donovan (England): Lovely helpful website; keep up the good work and thank you for all the information - very helpful.

Tim and Ann Gibson (England): We have enjoyed looking at your website which is very well laid out. We shall follow your travels with interest.

Lee Barnett and June Coode (England): Nice one you two, it's a pleasure to log on and enjoy your site.

Gordon Hyde (New Zealand): I cannot fault the text or the photos; I was particularly impressed with the photography.

Kaye and Alan James (from Sweden): Well done on this website; it is as interesting as your many email letters over the years. Reading some of the contacts brought back happy memories of Bucharest and Greece. Downloaded great info from the website - all info on Australia being put in our planning folder!

Harvie Beetham (New Zealand): I found your website most interesting: I even learnt a little about my own country.

John Rhodes (New Zealand): I just peeped at your website - the current log looks great with wonderful photos.

Claire (England): Just wanted to say thank you for the email with the website info. We are hoping to leave England on our journey soon so it has come at the perfect time and has been very helpful. Thanks again.

James Maher (Eire): Congrats on your very welcome web site. Reading about your travels gives us a lot to aim for.

George and Jane Swindail (England): Great site! We've visited several times and just discovered we feature in one of your photos.

Lewis Owen (Wales): Coming across you here has been like hitting the Big Seam.

Mike Guggenheim (England): Super website - most impressed.  

Maggie Bevis (England): My eyes were drawn to 'Kamping Karpouzi' - it made me smile so much because you encapsulated the whole 'Greekiness' of it. I look forward to reading the rest of your website and savouring it. Keep sending people to Spain!

Warwick Taylor and Julie King (Australia): Thanks for this info, invaluable. Your tips on crossing from Bari to Dubrovnik made that so straightforward compared to the bothers some others had. Hvar Island (in Croatia) in May was utterly our sort of place, just brilliant. With thanks.

Alan Brown (Margaret's brother in Suburban England): Thanks also for the website address, though to be honest I shall not be spending much time on it.

Steve and Sue Reynolds (England): Thank you for setting up such an excellent website; it really is very useful for full-time travellers. Best wishes.

John Foster (Greece): Congratulations to you and to your site builders and thanks to the Pentagon for making it all possible; it's amazing.

Christoph and Birgit Oberhauser (Austria): Visited your new website minutes ago - it great! Your are doing a great job and living your life the right way - just following your heart, go on this way and we will follow you on your website!

Andy Clarke (England): What an excellent resource your site is! You may like to know that your original 'A to Z of Fulltiming' series in MMM is the main thing that set us down the road to long term travelling.

Pat and Brian Anderson (England): What a fantastic site - we feel very privileged to be featured. The structure of the site looks excellent and is great to have all your previous newsletters available.

Gordon and Wendy Rowley (Greece): Well done you two. The site looks great.

Ian and Judit Shires (Hungary): I think your site is the most professional I've ever seen. No bullshit. It is concise, it works, it's welcoming... and there's a photo of me! Once again, congrats on the site. We love it.

Andrew Hague (Wales): There are two ways to travel and you uniquely convey both to your readers: the geographical movement that carries body across the globe and mental imaginings that move into areas not yet existing. It is this realisation that existence comes into doubt that is exciting; did it happen or was I imagining it? With a vast data base of experiences to feed the imagination, the multiplication of possibilities increases and you have served yourselves and us all.

Sara Eastburn (England): Many thanks for this information, and happy travelling!

Jean and Roy Slack (England): Congratulations to both of you. We often think of you in Greece but it is nothing to your recent excapades around the world.

Tony Johnson (England): Many thanks for the information on Slovenia and Croatia which I found most useful.

Terry Harris (Australia): I can see that you have some amazing stories to tell. That is amazing, what you have done!! (I still have more to read)!!

Charley and Janet Hedges (New Zealand): Looking forward to seeing you both again, even if I have turned a little green with envy after visiting you web site.

Keith Durham (England): Just visited your new web page - fantastic, many congratulations to you both and to your designers. I can appreciate all the hard work thats gone into its preparation and developing the content.

Ishobel Macnab (Scotland): Thanks so much for getting back to me. You've been really helpful.

Ian Kenyon (England): Wow, very professional and most impressive. Great site, brilliant idea.

Aaron Bristow (Australia): You have got me excited about cycling again! It has been a while. You must have had a great time - I am supremely jealous.