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Another winter in Portugal

This season’s winter trip was severely curtailed owing to various medical appointments but mid to late January we found ourselves with a 6 week or so window in…

Passports, Panic and Pork Pies.

On the road again…….. Off we set again on 19thOctober, via a night in Warwick to see Richard and Aoife. Richard treated us to a lovely meal at…

Photo update

Photographs on my previous entry were all taken with my phone……here are some more taken using the camera. She definitely had a propeller when we set off! As…

Going Dutch

We went back to Liberté, our barge in June, delayed because of one thing and another but the good news is my back surgery in April was a…

Back home in Bolton, looking forward to the next adventure!

We’re home again….since last Tuesday. Our last few days in the motorhome passed very quickly it now feels…….we had a whistle stop drive through France with just three…

Ferry booked……..

We crossed the Spanish border into France this morning and are now just north of Bordeaux for the night, parked in an aire next to a small fishing…

Homeward bound….

We’re back in Spain again now after the very pleasant journey along the eastern border of Portugal Ampudia Aire (Spain) Ampudia Alas we still saw no bustards but…

Never mind the Bustards!

We’ve just spent a most enjoyable few days in Mértola and around. Mértola is set high on a spur above the confluence of the Guadiana and Oeiras rivers…

And back to Portugal

Palacio do Rocina Once we had showered off the sand from the aborted cycle ride at dusk on Sunday, we left El Rocio campsite next morning and drove…

Spain for a few days …. or the Wild West?

We’ve just popped over the border to Spain for few days so that we can spend some time in the Coto Doñana National Park in Andalucia and are…