Straight off the plane from the USA, and with the fond memories of Big Dave and Tin Can still fresh in our minds we took delivery of our brand new home on wheels. With our cottage sold and our modest possessions (mostly) in a storage container, our next adventure is to start very soon. We will still be Tin Can Travelling, but this time in a 7 metre low profile, class C motorhome.
Our plan is to explore as much of Europe as we can, avoiding winter cold and summer heat where possible, and taking advantage of our New Zealand passports to make that possible over extended time periods.
A rig needs a name, and henceforth our new tin can shall be known as:
‘Davide Le Flâneur’
–Flâneur
A person that is able to saunter around and wander detached from society with no other purpose than to be an acute observer of his surroundings. He/she is deliberately aimless, just soaking in his surroundings through different perspectives. Perspectives that are untouched by others who see these surroundings as normal and don’t even dwell on it.
Flâneur (pronounced flɑnœʁ), from the French noun flâneur, means stroller, lounger, saunterer, or loafer.
The flâneur was essential to any picture of the streets of Paris, a literary type from the 19th-century in France. Now flâneur has become an important symbol for scholars, artists and writers.
He is a real flâneur when he takes the bus; just staring out of the window and observing the normal but weird things humans do.
by Marc Packbier June 6, 2019, Urban Dictionary