Fires, rain and blissful ignorance

São Martinho Portugal : October 2017 We are headed up to the Silver Coast of Portugal, as we have previously done a flying visit to Lisbon along with neighboring Cascais and Sintra we are going to give Lisbon a miss this time. I plotted the route and it took us a little too close to…

The Alentejo…..Proteas, Fresh Fish & Tomato Ice-Cream

Alentejo Portugal : October 2017 We left Anne behind with ‘See you soon’ and made our way along the cost. We had so many recommendations of places to try and not enough time so we had to make some difficult choices. First we chose to visit Lagos and then move on up into the Alentejo.…

Sevilla – eating, drinking & dancing (some sightseeing included)

Sevilla Spain : October 2017 We had struggled to find a decent camp site close enough to Seville. Chris checked park4night.com and found a parking which said it was on the bus route to Sevilla. The gps co-ords of these places are sometimes a little dodgy so it did take us 2 rounds to find…

El Puerta De Santa Maria: Drinking sherry for personal reasons..

El Puerto De Santa Maria Spain : October 2017 On our way to Cadiz we had intended to stop by at a little village named Padul; my grandmothers’s birthplace. It being a 300km trek to Cadiz and running a little late we decided to skip the visit, leaving a hot Granada with a lovely warm…

Granada you took our breath away!

  Chris and I both agree that this is going to be a hard post to write. Visiting the Alhambra in Granada was the highlight of the visit and explaining it in words seems beyond me. I'll start with the easy stuff. We stayed in a camp site just outside Granada called Camping Beas de…

Shake your Olives,Honey!

Vall De Laguar Alicante Spain: September 2017 Up into the mountains we go, winding our way thru villages perched on hilltops and nestled in the valleys. The campsite is situated just outside a tiny village called Campell and Tomtom takes us through the village and up an impossibly narrow and windey road. Some idiot had…