Month: March 2025

Ah …I think we’ve got it sussed now. When the sun goes down, there’s a siren and a call to prayer. Then, everyone eats, drinks, smokes, plays football loudly with audience cheering and the ref’s loud whistle, then a bit

Apart from a football match around midnight (think it was organised as they had a whistle), some kids thumping the back of the van and then the call to prayer from the mosque right behind us, it was a relatively

On Monday, we had a day of torrential rain and many places were flooded as we drove south towards Algeciras. We first went to visit Carlos at Viajes Normandie (as recommended many times on the homies forum)to get an open

Heavy rain in the night, but semi-dry this morning. Somehow a cleaning day turned into a trip to Cadiz 🙄 Went to get the boat at midday only to find it had been cancelled and replaced with a hot coach

A relatively short drive this morning with a bit of traffic around Seville brought us back to El Puerto de Santa Maria, namely Camping Las Dunas. Three loads of washing to get done asap as rain is forecast tomorrow. We

So cold this morning…the boiler came up with “Gas Failure” again! Guy managed to reset it, but we sat in bed with coffee until after ten as it was too flipping cold to get out! Thinking (hoping) that it was

Well, we abandoned the idea of walking into Burgos this morning as it was really cold and pouring with rain. Thought we’d just drive south for a couple of hours and it might warm up. No chance.Parked just outside Salamanca

Bilbao Old Town Storms in the night, with one clap of thunder right over the top of us. Think we both jumped six feet in the air! 🤣 Heating and hot water refusing to work again this morning so our

We’ve had a few days in Magnan visiting the senior Bramleys, then set off yesterday for San Sebastián which is just over the border, in Spain. Decided to use the motorway and pay the tolls as we were hoping to

Freezing cold this morning, but we did inadvertently leave two roof vents wide open though. 🙄The van containing the Airedale puppy had already left by the time we surfaced – obviously realised there was a risk of kidnap. By the