Ok so on Friday I finally finished work, packed up my office and buggered offski!

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I took Saturday as a complete day of nothing, did some chores round the house, got my car cleaned ready for it to be sold and then had a day off from thinking about the future, because it got real pretty quick.

Today I am back – It’s not a good thing to think that I am not actually working anymore, in fact it’s quite the opposite. I am working harder than ever before in an attempt to actually become a travel writer. There you go guys and girls – my secret is out!

I have always loved writing, and even went to do Journalism at University (that’s another story for another time)

So it’s something I am keen to get back into. Next week I shall be sending of letters and emails and a whole snow storm of other applications to writing places etc to see what I can get. I will also be tracking down some of the leisure magazines, campervan mags, tenting mags and of course you guys will get the first peak as usual.

Also – and I say this with a small amount of trepidation, I will be moving this blog!!

It will be moving to a lovely new page where I have a nice layout, my own domain and the best thing of all – lovely galleries and some other funky stuff. I will let you know when this is all going on but I want to give a huge shout out to ITsimple.co.uk who have done me some remarkable favours for this to go ahead.

I hope you will all join me when the new one is created.

As usual comments are very welcome.

Good evening all, how are you?

Thanks to the wonders of mobile internet from T-Mobile Germany I am able to stay in touch with you guys direct from our glorified car park hehe.

I should also say that we have snow, wonderful snow, and lots of it. When I get round to replacing the batteries in the camera I will upload the photos of our excellent Snow Table!

While the snow storm outside batters us I shall inform you all of a new travel invention that I have seen on my travels.

We stopped over night at another stellplatz near the German twn of Julich, which is home to one of the largest open cast mines in the world. Whatever you may think about the terrible destruction that this way of mining causes, you cannot stand near the edge of this “hole” and wonder at the scale of it.

Mahusive! and yes that is intetionally spelt that way!

Whilst staying in Julich I noticed that next door to us was a lovely patch of flat land, with some brlliant “pitch turf”, lights and a small toilet and shower block. This is the future of budget travel ladies and gentlemen…. A youth tent platz!

We’ve all heard of youth hostels, so just apply the same principle to tenting, basic – but nice and clean – and of course fairly cheap!

So there we go – ony one day down and already I have found the future of travelling. You can find out more about this place here

Happy Tavelling
Overland Si