SnailTrail

Keep On Slitherin'

Wales Obscura

OK, first port of call for any adventure is always Atlas Obscura so let’s pull out some of the things that might be interesting …


Wales - Plan B!

So, if we are not going to bus around the perimeter of England, where shall we go? We have been active members of the Small Motorhome Community for years and they are having a twentieth anniversary meet in Teversal near Nottingham in April and one of the more northerly members Gregor is hosting a met up in the borders at Melrose afterwards. So an obvious choice might be to join friends at both of those and on into Scotland. But we’ve toured Scotland and the Islands a few times now, so another option would be to head over to Stranraer after Melrose and tour the Emerald Isle again.


Itinerary

Round England’s Coast by Bus

What follows is an attempt to see if a complete circumnavigation of England by bus is actually even possible!

NOTE Timetables listed were downloaded in Jan 2026 and will not only likely be out-of-date but also not include summer-only tourist buses


Britain by bus - Intro

Readers of our Busabout blog will know that in 2000, literally days before Covid clamped the country down Liz and I travelled the length of the country from Southampton to Carlisle and then over the border to Gretna using our pensioner’s concessionary bus pass. Over 450 miles of free travels (and not so free hotels!). Sadly a pressing appointment meant train rather than buses back home, but a good thing perhaps with Covid just starting to become rife.


Hugo 2

Some follow ups

Is it a good thing running the Hugo blog as root? It is inside an unprivileged container - but still? Anyway it’s a simple mater to create a hugo user, add it to sudoers and then go back to the PVE and change the uid and gid of the NAS mount points so that they are now owned by user hugo. Then the blog, copied to the hugo home folder and chown’d appropriately should just work