Month: November 2017

Well, what started out as a nice quiet night by the River Douro turned suddenly eventful about 1:30am. I was awake and thought I heard a knock at the door. I woke Guy up and there was another knock. He

Totally different today. The sun was out and it was windy …the perfect day for drying washing!🙄 Too late, all been done in the tumble drier. Big gusts of wind at 5am meaning Guy had to get up to secure

Raining ☔️ today. Real grey miserable English kinda rain. The weather app said it was just cloudy at Porto so we set off for a campsite about 40 km below. We tried the non motorway route and went miles along

Up to Portugal’s highest peak today – Torre. We set off about 9am along the winding roads – at least they were tarmac all the way. We passed more burnt trees, houses, a car and even a tractor at one

Today we drove north again to the Serra da Estrela mountains through what should have been some stunning scenery to what what billed as one of the best campsites in Portugal. What we found as we drove up the winding

The sea was a bit loud last night – not complaining but we struggled to sleep with the roar of the waves. We got up to find the carpet in the lounge/ kitchen soaking wet. The only possible answer is

Guy took a few photos of the rocks and wild sea this morning, then we left to go slightly inland to Obidos, an old walled town given by the King to his Queen many years ago. We decided to leave

Went for a walk on the fab beach where we were parked along with several other motorhomes this morning. Rufus even chased the ball a couple of times. It was very wild and windy. Further along the coast we stopped

It was a fairly quiet night to say we were sleeping port side. Rufus was a bit tired from yesterday, so I left him and Guy to play Scrabble while I went into the centre to try and do some

Slow start this morning; we didn’t sleep very well at the busy truck stop/let your dogs bark all night place.😬 Took the slow road to Lisbon followed by a bit of motorway and then a fantastic bridge into the city.