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Hi, just a little story you might like to read about.....
Back in 2001 we embarked on our first trip to Greece with the motorhome. We thought we were being quite adventurous. Whilst travelling around the Peloponnese we stopped at a charming place called Methoni and booked in at the municipal campsite. Anyway, we noticed a lady of advancing years who appeared to be camped alone in her caravan in the corner of the site.
It turned out that she was British and her name was Joan, she was a widower and had been carravanning here for nearly 30 years, the caravan is stored for the winter on the site and she returns every year for the summer.
Quite a character, she was awarded the title 'honorary citizen of Methoni' by the locals and was out vitually every night on her own visiting friends or going to card schools or dances etc, she was always on the go.
Well, just by accident the other day, I was browsing the Magbaz travel blog and low and behold, last year a couple who post their travels on that blog (Maggie & Pete Bevis) visited the same campsite and mentioned Joan. She is still visiting the same campsite every year and is now 85 years young, have a quick look at the blog entry for Thursday 27th July here Its just a quick mention but it amazed me she was still visiting the site and especially at that age. A lovely lady and an inspiration to us all.
We're seriously thinking of touring the Peloponnese again this year and if we go down Methoni way, hopefully we'll be bumping into a now 86 year old woman by the name of Joan in her caravan again. She probably won't remember us but we certainly remember her.
That is a brill story and it is so nice to read about something like this amidst all the tragedies around us. She is certainly going to be missed when she is unable to travel anymore but lets hope that is way in the future.
Reminds me of an elderly English couple we met in France who had been fulltiming for 20 years.. Recently they had down sized from an RV to a Hymer due to the lady's inability to climb the steps into the RV but were determined to keep going none the less.. wonderful couple.
We left them at Stenay but lo and behold bumped into them several days later at Enkirch .. you meet so many great characters on the road..
It also reminds me of another intrepid female traveller, Maureen Middleton, who took her old Elddis motorhome across to China and back again at the age of 63...
In our much younger days, my wife and I packed our belongings into the back of a Ford Anglia van and set off to wander the world.
A few months later we were travelling south along the Yugoslavian coastline somewhere north of Dubrovnik and pulled into a roadside 'layby' to spend the night.
A little while later an elderly Australian couple, retired school teachers we later discovered, driving north in their battered motorhome, pulled in beside us and we got to chatting. We were about to boast how we had been on the road for 3 months and covered nearly two thousand miles when the lady casually pointed to the bullet holes they had picked up while coming through the Khyber Pass - they had driven from Australia and were now into year 3!
We shut up.
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