Home is where I park it

So in a few weeks we all (well most of us) get to vote on whether to leave or stay in the EU. Now I don't vote in elections, I believe we can govern ourselves, I believe in the principles of an anarchist society, I believe with lots of love, understanding and education most of us would do pretty well, get on with our lives and live them to the full without messing up other peoples lives as well as being happy to help the wider community. Of course that's not going to happen overnight and even if there was some massive anarchist uprising it just wouldn't work straight away, too many people in today's society are selfish and mean. Society will have to change at a slower pace and although there may come a time where a big uprising puts the final nail in the coffin to this selfish, undemocratic, capitalist world we live in I doubt I'll see it in my lifetime. So my view is this, all politicians are selfish idiots, some may start with good intentions to help...

Hello readers :) You may remember a few weeks ago I posted about some new exciting products I had been making over the winter months. Well they are now all up online and for sale as well as some older things from the last couple of years. I have added a shop feature to my website, I am trialling it at the moment so I have the free version and can only have 10 products up at any one time. Please do check it out and send your friends the link. I will have my premium range of crafts here for now to see how it goes. CLICK HERE FOR THE SAMSIMILLIA SHOP I have also changed the site slightly so have a look round while you are there! All my other crafts, jewellery and cards are on Ebay. This month I had 100 free listings and so everything is there, my entire catalogue (except the items on my website shop). It's not all the time I get all these free listings and so a lot of these items may not be up on Ebay again for a while. Please take a look and share with your friends. CLICK...

Had a walk around Gloucester recently, some new things to take photos of so must go back with my camera soon. Meanwhile here is some new graffiti that has appeared over the winter including a piece by my favourite Gloucester Graffiti artist Trix. Thanks for looking :) xxx

In the 3 posts below is a film we made about our year travelling Europe in 2010-11. For some reason when I shared them to this blog from YouTube every time I try and write some text on the same post the video disappears! Anyway hopefully they will give inspiration to others who want to explore! Thanks for looking :) xxx

Here is a sneak preview of just a few of the new products released for 2016-17. Made over the winter 2015-16 in Portugal and Spain. Full list to be on the updated Samsimillia site soon and for sale on Ebay or via the website or Facebook page. Thanks for looking :) xxx

Had a wonderful weekend at the Beltane Horsedrawn Gathering, my review (if you can call it that!) is up on my website HERE , below are a few different pictures that didn't make it on the website. One Eyed God Tarantism My Samsimillia stall Freaks lol Thanks for looking :) xxx

 Here is a breakdown of the mileage we did on our journey: Gloucester - Margate - Dover - Calais - 267 miles Calais - Somewhere near Dreux - 221 miles Somewhere near Dreux - Somewhere near Bordeaux - 260 miles Somewhere near Bordeaux - Somewhere near Valladolid - 336 miles Somewhere near Valladolid - Ribamondego - 261 miles Ribamondego - Coimbra - 153 miles Coimbra - Ribamondego - Covas -102 miles Covas - Tabua - 24 miles Tabua - Barril do Alva - 56 miles Barril do Alva - Boa Vista - 82 miles Boa Vista - Odeciexe - 224 miles Odeciexe - Barranco - 39 miles Barranco - Vila do Bispo - Sagres - Budens - La Palma de Condado - 165 miles La Palma de Condado - Pig Field - 170 miles Pig Field - Tarifa - Los Lances - Punta Paloma - Tarifa - 201 miles Tarifa - Torreguardio - 54 miles Torreguardio - Nerja - 110 miles Nerja - Mojacar - 145 miles Mojacar - Todasol - 43 miles Todasol - Bolnuevo - 33 miles Bolnuevo - La Marina - 87 miles La Marina - Alicante - 19 miles Alic...

We stopped just south of Alicante for a couple of days at a place called La Marina. Beautiful beach there and lovely weather. Simon got to play with the kite for the last time and I practised taking photos of kites! All too soon it was time to head for the ferry in Calais. We had 5 days to cover around 1250 miles and so had to average around 250 miles a day. We stopped in Zaragoza and found a vet to check the dogs and give them the necessary tapeworm treatment. This has to be done between 1 and 5 days before entering the UK. On our first trip we had it done in France and it was so expensive, 50 euros per dog! This time we paid 40 euros for both dogs! Our last lunch stop in Spain was at an amazing view point overlooking the Parque Natural Bardenas Reales. Before we knew it we were seeing snow topped mountains and then very snowy mountains and then snow in the fields and at the side of the road! How different to the sunny beach two days ago! Our last night in Spain w...

After we did some shopping in Gibraltar we headed North along the coast famously known as the Costa del Sol. We don't ever really stop along the stretch between Estepona and Nerja and so for a night we stopped before Estepona at a small beach car park just North of Torreguadiaro. In the morning we drove through the nightmare that is the Costa del Sol! Ok some people like it but it is not our taste at all and it is just too much, beautiful Spanish villages and towns have been ruined by hotels and apartments. This photo sums up why I don't like this area! We stopped at the cemetery in Malaga to pay our respects to our Uncle Peter who died last year. Peter was a lovely man who we spent some great times with at his little house in the mountains near Alora. We had been looking forward to seeing him on this trip until he was tragically struck down with cancer. After stopping at the cemetery in Malaga we headed towards Nerja where we stayed for a couple of nights. Although s...

We had left Tarifa after 10 months living in the Pig Field in October 2012, that had been our second visit there and we had fallen in love with the place despite the strong relentless winds! 3 years later and we were back and it was such a good feeling. We arrived just a few days before Christmas and despite our 3 year absence we immediately met up with some old friends, also travellers living in their vans and spending a lot of their time in Tarifa. We also found out friends of ours had bought land very close to the Pig Field. Below is a shot of the Pig Field.  The Pig Field has been a travellers site for many years, not only is it a site for what you might call 'new travellers' or 'hippies' it is also home to many wind surfers and kite surfers who come and stay for days, weeks or months at Europe's top wind and kite surfing location. Tourists, sightseers, fishermen and locals also come in and out of the field on a daily basis. Some people in vans stay only a ...