RONNIE & Michelle
Careering OffAfter over 30 years working, Ronnie & Michelle have decided to take the gap year (or two!) that we missed out on at the usual time. We have had stressful careers in Technology and Finance until now including start-ups and self-employment.
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The kids – Cameron & Daniel – have fled the nest to pursue their own adventures in life, leaving only the cats Tiger and Lexey to tie us down.
Following a health shock and seeing what has happened to many people we know around our age, we decided not to wait until we are in our 60’s and retired before resuming our love of travel and seeing the world. We are in the fortunate position of being able to pause working for a while.
It’s now time to career-off.
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Skye & Arisaig in winter
Continuing the staycation theme with our caravan, we made some last-minute bookings and headed over the sea (bridge) to Skye on Hogmanay (New Years Eve). With our boiler fixed and an ample supply of gas we were all set for some winter caravanning. The second site in...
Melrose, Scottish Borders
Continuing the staycation theme, we took the caravan to Melrose in the Scottish Borders. Fortunately the caravan boiler was fixed so we had heating and hot water - quite necessary in late November. Melrose is famous for its Abbey, and its claim to fame as the home of...
Stonehaven – Gamrie
Continuing with the Staycation theme of exploring parts of the UK that we haven't really visited before, we took the caravan to Aberdeenshire for a few nights. The first stop was the fishing town of Stonehaven on the east coast. Stonehaven is famous for its annual...
Northumberland 2021
Continuing our saga of Covid staycation, we decided to explore Northumberland. Our first stop was a small site on a farm on a hill just above Bellingham. Bellingham is a quaint little village with all the essentials - butcher, baker, pub. We took the bikes to Kielder...
Madagascar
In 2015 we took a small group tour with Natural World Safaris to Madagascar. This was technically before we "careered-off" but the blog post has been added retrospectively for completeness. Madagascar is located only 400km off Mozambique on the African coast. But it...
Staycation road trip – Yorkshire Moors
From Suf- and Nor- folk, we decided to head for the Yorkshire Moors. Another area we had never been to before. We decided that the Moors should be a bit quieter than the Yorkshire Dales during the Covid staycation madness. On the way, we stopped in the city of...
Staycation road trip – Suffolk & Norfolk
Despite living in Cambridge for about 4 years, we hadn't really visited the neighbouring counties of Suffolk ("Southern Folk") and Norfolk ("Northern Folk"). So they definitely fitted into the Covid Staycation criteria of "places in the UK we haven't really seen...
Staycation road trip – Forest of Dean
Since we can't really travel abroad due to Covid, we decided to take a few weeks for a UK road trip with our caravan. The mission was to explore parts of the UK which we hadn't really seen before. We decided to spend a few days in the Forest of Dean. It's a very...
NC500 by Caravan
Since Covid has clipped our wings, we decided to explore more of the UK instead. The North Coast 500 (NC500) is Scotland's answer to America's Route 66. It is (just over) 500 miles (800 km) long and begins and ends in Inverness. It is recommended that you do the route...
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