After a nice morning in the sun with our friends Åsa and Sverker in Cascais outside Lisbon, we headed south. We rolled over the 25 April bridge, named after revolution day, and continued on the motorway down to the Algarve coast. The first goal was to get some LPG! We weren't keen on getting a fourth LPG tube, so we listened to the tip about a refuelling station in Boliqueime.
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We have now driven from Gothenburg to France. Night-black motorways through Denmark, windy sea between Rödby - Puttgarden and mile after mile together with all the trucks through Germany. Then some confusing roundabouts through Holland, driving on freshly lit motorways through Belgium and then into France, where we now drive among villages and cows in the countryside.
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Then we were off! We got up at six o'clock this morning to unpack the last things and clean the boat. We worked intensively all morning and while we were carrying out the last box, the new tenants called ... then they were in the marina with a car and trailer and four friends to help carry!
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Many Swedes drive in Europe during their summer holidays. But only 4 out of 10 read up on the rules of the road in the country they are driving in, and one in five admit to having broken the rules abroad. The worst offenders are women. This is according to a survey by the travel search site Skyscanner.
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Did you know that motorhomes often have the wrong tyres and tyre pressure? A total of 70% of all motorhomes and caravans have the wrong tyre pressure, and one in four campers don't even have the right tyres. This is according to tyre experts Däckteam, who investigated how well we keep track of the tyres on our motorhomes and caravans.
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Motormännen has carried out its annual evaluation of the country's rest areas. 270 of Sweden's 350 or so rest areas have been assessed by Motormännens vägombud, in terms of design, parking facilities, safety, seating, toilets, play equipment, walking paths, lighting, signage and cleaning.
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A new edition of Discover Europe by Car, from Motormännen, has recently been published. Are you travelling by car or motorhome in Europe this summer? Then it might be worth packing this! Here you will find lots of valuable information for long and short road trips. We will keep it in the door of the motorhome, easily accessible from the passenger seat.
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Today we have experienced the Atlas Mountains in Morocco. After five hours with Norwegian we landed today in a sunny and warm Marrakech. There we met the Norwegian organisers and two drivers from Sahara Experience. And then we set off on a long car journey over the Atlas Mountains and inland.
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When travelling, you often need to get around in different ways, sometimes between places and sometimes within a place. Here are some of the different modes of transport we've tried. Which one do you prefer ... or prefer not to use?
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As part of efforts to reduce CO2 emissions from commercial transport in Europe, the EU wants to fit all new vans with equipment that limits the speed of the vehicles. This would mean a speed limit for motorhomes as well.
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