Medyka

I knew Sunday would entail a good 12 hours of driving, so I allowed myself a slight (very slight) “sleep-in” until 8am… of course it felt like 7am to me coming from the UK. Marina and Stefan put on an amazing spread for breakfast. Sausage, bacon, egg, pastries, coffee… you name it. A very decent […]

Autobahn

I woke up in the van around 11am. I got out, stretched my legs and walked to the service station, grabbed a coffee and used the loo. Then it was time to hit the road… I had the best part of 1,000 kilometres ahead of me. Ciaran’s Honda Stepwagon was great to drive, although the […]

Off Again

Well it’s only been just over a week, but it’s once again time to hit the road. Ciaran has kindly lent me his campervan for this trip, which will allow me to take up to 6 passengers wherever they need to go. I’ll be doing this trip solo, but Bear and Ciaran will be helping […]

Homeward

I wasn’t joking when I wrote that the place we stayed in on the German-Polish border was, like, AMAZING! Really really amazing. I got such a good night’s sleep, the first in a good few days. In the morning, the hotel surpassed itself with the most outrageously incredible breakfast spread imaginable. I was torn between […]

One Hell of a Day

I drove a bit further into Poland before Chris took over for the “night shift” and I tried to get some shut-eye. When we left Calais, we told Gordon – the medic we were meeting on the border – that we’d be there around 8am… in order to do so, we just had to keep […]

The Long Road

We planned to get up “as early as possible”, but to be honest, after not getting to bed until 4am local time, I think anything before 9am (felt like 7am) was pushing it. After a particularly spartan breakfast (thanks ibis Budget!), we set off from Calais, driving east through Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and into […]

A Good Start

After a few hours of sleep, I slurped down a cup of tea, and left with my mum to go and pick up the campervan from Maghull, north of Liverpool. The vehicle hire people were really friendly and supportive, something that proved to be a recurring theme throughout our journey. Mum followed me as I […]

Countdown

In the first week of the Russian invasion, Ciaran the Van Driver and I were chatting on messenger about our mutual friend Paolo who was already taking supplies to the Ukrainian border. “We could do that.” A few days later, UK4UKR was born. It’s not been easy, and sometimes it feels like everything that could […]