Month: January 2020

Not “a dry Blackthorn cider day”! Drove into the Sintra national park hoping to see the Pena Palace. Roads like narrow loops of spaghetti running up and down hills. Couldn’t find suitable parking and it rained and rained and rained.

Well, we were lucky with the washing, it didn’t rain until we were almost up! Had to chuck it all in the tumble drier at €6 a pop. Baby socks and short t shirts it is then! 😂 Once the

After a quiet night in Tomar we set off for Nazaré with the idea of having a campsite stop to get the washing done. We were a bit befuddled with the time as we’ve now gained an hour making us

Someone set the alarm for 8am this morning so we got up in the dark. ☹️Trouble was, we’d caught a switch on the hot water that turned it off, so still lots of faffing about waiting for it to heat

Didn’t wake up till gone 9am! Couldn’t believe it …it’s so dark in the mornings, I thought it was about 7:30 🙄 Short drive to Trujillo. We had a walk around the old town. It had a huge square with

I’ve had a drive today..hence the sweaty palms. It was a big wide empty (luckily😂)motorway between Salamanca and Caceres. I got in trouble for misuse of gears, daring to touch the break in fifth, refusing to overtake big lorry etc

I’m all cherubed out now after visiting another cathedral in Salamanca today. We got here at lunchtime and thought we’d park next to the church in the same spot we came to two years ago. We remembered it well, as

The weather was a bit murky this morning as we set off towards Burgos, even some snow in places. Think we’d only been on the road ten minutes when our thoughts turned to wine! 🍷Well, we were in the Rioja

Rained constantly all night and throughout this morning so despite the spectacular view we decided to move on. There were more Mallos to be seen behind the village of Aguero a few miles away. What a spectacular setting for a

A little trip to Carrefour to start the day. Everything seems very cheap – especially after Norway! Two green peppers for about 30p 👍 Off then in search of a monastery at San Juan de la Peña via a very