Seatbelts on Boyo!

 Off Janice and I go on another ‘lifestyle’ trip in the motorhome (which we have now decided to call a dormobile).  If you haven’t guessed we are going to travel around Wales.

I have previously blogged about the Vernon family history and worked hard to find a French connection to William the Conqueror to secure our rightful place at the table of nobility.....well I tried.  Well, it may seem to be rather a come down but I can now reveal that I am actually..........Welsh.  My paternal grandfather was born in the border town of Knighton, which is split by the English/Welsh border.  He was born approximately 100 yards on the Welsh side which means that I can qualify to play for Wales........I never thought the words would come out of my mouth.

We had often said that we must travel around Wales and Covid and international travel problems as they are this year seems to be a very good time.

We have actually been away in the dormobile for a week seeing Janice’s family on holiday in Suffolk so tomorrow we are driving across country to the Forest of Dean area, which is still in England between Gloucester and the Welsh border town of Monmouth.  The area has a significance for the Vernons as the earliest direct relative we can trace was Thomas Vernon, born at Tibberton in 1732.  He married Anne Fluck (a stroke of Fluck!.....the cleanest pun I could manage!) and apparently they both signed their names which is better than many more recent Vernons could do.  Thomas was a Yeoman but I’m not too sure what that involves so I think I need to Google it.

We will get up early in the morning to avoid too much Bank Holiday traffic and I will seek to keep my few regular sufferers (sorry, readers) updated on our movements.  As normal we have no particular idea where we will end up.  I have some ideas but may reveal them as we go.  It could all change.  I need to apologise to any Welsh people who could stumble across the blog that no racial slur is intended and any humorous misspelling of words and especially place names is not intended to insult the Welsh nation or culture.

It’s a lovely country and we intend to enjoy it to the full.  Yakidah!