Calais, France: Back in mainland Europe for the remainder of our trip. It was perfect weather for a beach walk which was accessible from our campsite. Calais, France: We enjoyed a long walk along the main beach in Calais. Overall, we were pleasantly surprised how much we liked Calais and would certainly return. Calais, France: One of Tony's first orders of business was to find a French baguette (or 2).

St. Davids: Rainbow after an infrequent afternoon sprinkle. Our Aribnb had a lovely deck area and it was situated on 18 acres of farmland. St. Davids: Our Old Stable Airbnb that we loved. It was a ruin until 2019. Note the different brick colors designating the ruin from the new construction. We are coming back for another month in 2026. …

Newgrange: Another Neolithic site similar to Cede Fields but sadly we didn't realize you needed tickets to visit the actual archeological location so we only were able to tour the Visitor's Center, but that was suberb, too. Pro tip: Book tickets ahead. Ardgillan Castle Gardens: Tracey specifically enjoyed this herb garden. Her pace was so slow due to her leg injury she could actually see the plants growing.

Derry: Free Derry wall still stands in Bogside community Derry: Ireland is supportive of Palestine and their fight for freedom. This is one of Tracey's favorite photos with Free Palestine sticker in the foreground and the blurry image of the Civil Rights mural in the background. The fight continues. Derry: Many murals depicting the innocent bystanders (including children) killed during the conflict.

Wild Nephin National Park: Tracey having some tea while waiting out a passing storm. Spoiler alert: we didn't wait long enough. Wild Nephin National Park: Tracey still can't stop laughing about Tony's leg looking so deformed in this picture. Photo taken on our nature hike where the rain was actually small hail. Mullet Peninsula: Elly's Beach was another place we had completely to ourselves.

Galway: Heading out for a city walk carrying all our garbage in hopes of finding a public trash can. Getting rid of our trash has been one of the most challenging aspects of traveling in Ireland. Galway: Quite a lively city and we enjoyed walking around the city center; however we stumbled upon a calm residential area along a canal that we liked even better.

On our way to Ballybunion - the weather was almost perfect the entire day Ballybunion - Our first views of the massive beach which continued beyond the green outcropping for many more miles Ballybunion - Some of the best tide pools but sadly none of Tracey's favorite sea stars were located. Ballybunion - This was the best parking we could find after circling the streets for 30 minutes.

Dingle: Tony spent more time than he would admit to, loving on this sweet pup. Many belly rubs and throwing the rubber chicken to this sweetie occurred. We wanted to take her with us. Dingle: Not a spectacular photo, but this is the distribution center for Guinness. The kegs used to be made from wood, but are now metal and the locals call them "Iron Lungs".

Ring of Beara: This was our view wild camping on our first night on the Ring of Beara. Ring of Beara: So many beautiful little streams and vignettes Ring of Beara: Derreenataggart Stone Circle Ring of Beara: Dursey Island Cable Car - They used to allow livestock on the cable cars but the locals did not appropriately clean out the cars so that was stopped a few years ago and now it is only for humans and dogs.

Armorique was the ferry from France to Ireland. The ferry was huge with 10 decks and felt as big as a cruise ship. Strangely no safety briefing was done. Brittany Ferry from France to Ireland. Club Plus level which gave us extra space to do yoga in the morning. Very impressed with this ferry! Arriving into Ireland. Chickpea was on the deck below these cars with the sem-trucks.

Hillion - Tony found a baguette 🥖 shop on the way to our hike. He just gnawed on it the whole way. Hitler's Atlantic Wall remnants are everywhere now that we know what to look for. This one on our Hillion hike. Views from our Hillion hike of the Breton coast. Lovely Breton coastal views. Trails are more rugged and overgrown here.

The view from the top of the first cliff in Étretat, These views have been immortalized by Monet and Boudin and is not hard to understand why they painted here. The Porte d’Aval The Aiguille de Belval This was probably the biggest hill we climbed that day. There were 3 touring cyclist pushing their bikes up, one was riding a non-electric Brompton.

Boarding the 8-vehicle-ferry to Jumièges. The van in the photo was not allowed to board due to its size. Efficient is the best word to describe the Jumièges ferry. In under 3 minutes we were across the Seine River. The view of the Seine River on our lovely long walks from the campsite. Tony is back in business as he has recovered fully from his virus.

Boarding the 8-vehicle-ferry to Jumièges. The van in the photo was not allowed to board due to its size. Efficient is the best word to describe the Jumièges ferry. In under 3 minutes we were across the Seine River. The view of the Seine River on our lovely long walks from the campsite. Tony is back in business as he has recovered fully from his virus.

Yeah CHEAP gas. This is the cheapest gas we have gotten and it was in Luxembourg. €1.34/L = ~ USD $5.60/gallon. Yes, this is cheap our US friends. Normally we pay between USD $7-8/gallon. Bumper-to-bumper traffic near Paris. We sat in this on and off for almost 90 minutes. View from our wild camping spot in Montgeroult, France. Day #:

This section might be TMI, but it is the reason we traveled to Löf. In a nutshell, our cassette toilet reaks. Badly. We have used the standard black sewage tanks in most American RVs, composting/separating toilets in our US van and now a cassette toilet in this van. We would never get another blank tank but prefer the cassette toilet in Europe as that is what they are set up for and what everyone mostly uses. I have tried taming our revolting cassette toilet odors using the popular blue/green deodorizer packets (which Tony calls Cancer Packets as they can't be good for humans or the environment), enzyme digesters, lavender sachets, essential oil diffusers and most recently the toxic Glad Plug-ins. Nothing helps the smell of sewage being emitted from our cassette toilet and it just smells like lavender sewage. Ugh. It is disgusting. Previously, our friends (Fred/Denise and Ron/Ton) told us to get a SOG installed so we are finally heeding their advice and getting it installed at the SOG factory.