My Bubbles and Beyond

Musings of a business owner, toy manufacturer, and citizen of the world

Blogs

Dallas!

I finally have a moment, as I sit in the airport, Fort Worth, Texas.

Every name here so evocative, even the name of the airport. It is a place of names read in the news, locations dramatised on TV shows. The America I have learned about on a screen.

View over Banyuls from a cliff top wild camping spot

Starting a Blog – and Off Grid, Wild Camping with Bobbelix

I am parked up some 50m from the beach. To the side of me the open expanse of a nature reserve and a dune restoration project. Behind me a couple of gentlemen are playing boules on the hard sandy soil. I’m in Spain, in one of the quieter stretches of

Making Dr Zigs Bubbles on top of Bobbelix the Hymer

July and back to Bobbelix

I’ve been in Wales just over a month. A few short weeks and a lifetime And now, finally, I’m flying back to France, back to time on the road, back to my tiny home on wheels. As we fly, the land below looks like a mosaic of busyness, fields, with

Toad Hall – August

I watch the bees hover gently over the lavender. Pausing on each teeny flower, gathering pollen so small I can hardly see it, and again off, moving on to the next tiny flower. Their pattern of flight seemingly haphazard. Yet I study them, knowing that there is a sense to

Bobbelix the Bubble Bus and a Dr Zigs Bubble

February in Catalunya

For the last few weeks I have run Dr Zigs on the road again, from my van, the wonderful Bobbelix, a 2005 Hymer. I spent much of last year like this. In Europe navigating Brexit. This time I’m in northern Spain, in Catalunya. My connectivity a mifi router; my power,

Harvesting memories

The weather has been changing, from days of over 30 soaring to 40, to a chill, and mornings filled with a cool thick mist, bringing memories of Autumn. Yet, it is still high summer. And from these chills we soar again to high 30’s. It’s hard not to think about