My childhood adventure from Manchester to Spain 1969

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Anna Tomkins. My childhood adventure from Manchester to Spain 1969

Chapter 1: A Taste for Travel

Chapter 2: The Adventure Begins

Chapter 3: Bienvenue en France

Chapter 4: Vive Espagne!

Chapter 5: Welcome to La Ballena Allegre

Chapter 6: Out and about in Spain

Chapter 7: Why I probably won’t go to heaven

Chapter 8: Jurgen, say hello to Ralph

Chapter 9: Time for some culture

Chapter 10: Barcelona

Chapter 11: The Psychic Detectives

Chapter 12: Heading home across the Pyrenees

Chapter 13: Don’t drink the local water…

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Mother accepted the fait accompli with good grace and gradually warmed to the idea. Over the next couple of months we did a whistle stop tour of every camping and outdoor supplier in the North of England. No longer would we sleep under a pile of blankets on a ground sheet.

Now we all had airbeds to sleep on and thick comfortable sleeping bags to keep us warm and cosy at night. For cooking, mum chose a foldaway gas stove with twin burners and a grill. It folded up to the size of a small briefcase but was ready to use in just 2 minutes. She also picked a set of lightweight aluminium pans that fitted inside each other like a Russian doll. A sturdy 10-gallon water drum with a foot-operated pump would mean we had our own fresh water supply in the tent.

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Behind us the Volvo family looked on with undisguised amusement. “Good lord, if it isn’t the Quasimodo family”, hooted Daddy Volvo.

“Har, har, har”, laughed the other Little Volvos.

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