Month: August 2022

Such a long way up through France. We always try and vary the route a bit if we can, but there’s no getting around the fact that you have to do a few hundred km a day if you want

Apologies for radio silence – just had a couple of days in Magnan at Guy’s Mum and Dad’s, mainly eating, drinking and dog walking. There was a bit of excitement at midnight last night, when we heard a chicken outside

Three big ‘Cols’ today! I’m sure that Guy thinks he’s doing the Tour de France even though his bike has been sulking in the boot for the last two weeks. 😂 The sun was shining as we came up to

Followed the C28 road up towards the French border this morning. It was steep and spaghetti-like with many hairpin bends and quite a bit of snow at times. Port de la Bon Aigua came first, then we passed a ski

Winding mountain roads all day today. Woke up to a bit of sleet and near freezing temperatures outside. Our first stop was Puigcerdà which was right up by the French border – in fact, so close you could easily walk

Busy day today with two stops before we reached Olot. The first was to see the Pont de Llierca – a very photogenic Romanesque bridge. It was directly off a minor road but the parking was a bit difficult for

Reluctantly left the campsite this morning, and headed inland, up towards Girona and on to Besalú. We’ve been here before with our boys but it’s a lovely old town and well worth a re-visit as it’s on our route towards

Last day in the lovely, beautiful Calella de Palafrugell and what do we decide to do? Walk a twelve mile trip to Palamós and back! 🙄 It was looking like the weather might be a bit hit and miss so

WOW!!! That was a late night – 3am we got to bed! We were completely blown away by this event. We went back into the town around 10pm last night, expecting to be kicking around for a couple of hours

Well, our car park has certainly filled up today. In fact, now, at 8pm it’s rammed! We went into town to the tourist office this morning to see if we could get tickets for the play in the square at