Special Announcement

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT 

Dear All,

This may come as a surprise to some but, over the winter we have given a considerable amount of thought about what to do about the Blog. In essence we have decided to stop it in its present format.

The problem is simple, it takes a considerable amount of time, effort and money to produce. I think the phone companies in the UK have to take much of the blame. A friend of ours here in Spain with Vodaphone (Germany) has a Europe wide contract so he can use his allocation of minutes etc anywhere in Europe at no extra cost. He can also link his phone to his computer and piggy back of it to gain access to the internet through his computer. We in the UK do not have this option. This means we have to rely on free internet WiFi sites which are incredibly slow and difficult to find. We do hook onto the internet at campsites but this winter in Spain, it has cost €30 a month. This is on top of the UK tariff and the extra cost we have to pay for each call and text made, it makes it all a bit silly. 

It is not the downloading of the text that is the problem as this can usually be done in seconds but the photographs that cause the problem. In a well known fast food restaurant it can take a full hour (max allocated time) to download 4 pictures. For us the pictures are the most important part of the blog and speak much more than the scribbling. Plus the blog takes precedence over our other business and we have no time left to do emails, banking etc.

This year we will be spending most of our time free camping in France so access to the internet will be intermittent and we really don't want to spend all our days looking for internet Wifi.

What we have therefore decided to do, and until a better solution can be found, is continue to write about our travels but we will do it by email. We only have a small following of interested people and we can easily accommodate this by setting up a news letter. So, if you are interested in following our travels and in receiving our news letter please let us know (by email) to petra.kevin@ymail.com and we will add you to the email list.

Love to all Kevin and Petra