Hamish's Hurrahs

These are the websites Hamish has found useful when journeying around Europe.


Fellow Traveller's Blogs


Our Bumble- very comprehensive blog from folk who have travelled extensively for the last few years.  Includes: Hints and Tips, Places to Stay and lots more.

Our TourJulie & Jason Buckley, a couple of Brits. This blog follows their  travels around Europe and North Africa by motorhome.

Europe By Camper- 2008-2014 adventures throughout Europe with lots of advice.

How to Travel Around Europe with Kids- as it says on the tin


Tour Europe by Motorhome- Sarah and Stu start with Europe and then lots of Countries and now live in Australia.  Costed their year long tour of Europe, which is vey helpful.

Our Life In Scarlett- a 522 then 562 Hymer. Blog from 2011 to 2016 around Europe.

Steve, Liz and Cleo the dog- their great adventure in Europe starting on May 16th 2016.

Aaron and Nicky's Travels  in Europe in their Motorhome Benny since 2016



Finding Howffs along the way



Map of ALL European Motorhome Aires- from Our Tours page, click to find ID number and feed that to the site below to see facilities and location map.

CCI European Aires- FREE Howffs identified

ACSI Camping Card- find out of season Camping Sites at special rates- search on this page.

Park4Night- Community website to save and share overnight Howffs throughout Europe.

Womo-stellplatz- 'enabling the journey'. This is the online search website to find Howffs, from Germany.  An app is available too.

Wild Camping- excellent site for UK and certain European Countries (France and Spain). Subscription required.  We have travelled extensively throughout the UK using the POIs downloaded to our Tomtom Satnav and it proves very useful.


Enabling the Journey


Direct Ferries- for booking ferry crossings


Funding Freedom - From Corporate Life to a Life of Travel. This mini-guide tells the story of how Jason Buckley and his wife Julie re-designed their lives to enable them to stop the daily 9 to 5 of corporate jobs, and to instead have the choice to do something else - they chose travel.