The Hollow Ways of the Etruscans
30/01/18 As we drove south through Tuscany the land slowly flattened out. From the steep sided closely packed hills of the north we ventured through lower hills and wider shallower… Read more »
30/01/18 As we drove south through Tuscany the land slowly flattened out. From the steep sided closely packed hills of the north we ventured through lower hills and wider shallower… Read more »
28/01/18 – 29/01/18 We moved on from Greve-in-Chianti to find something less strenuous to occupy our time. Tuscany has a number of hot springs and so we thought we’d see… Read more »
16/01/18 We got out of Moncofa as quickly as possible in the morning. Using the facilities (thanks Moncofa for providing them) and making tracks further north along the coast. The… Read more »
09/01/18 – 11/01/18 It was going to be a whistle stop tour through the Alpujarras as the inclement weather had delayed our start. We only had three days before we… Read more »
07/01/18 – 08/01/18 Our plan had been to leave the Cabo de Gata and head back to the Malaga area across the Alpujarras, getting some time in the hills before… Read more »
02/01/18 – 06/01/18 It took some persuasion to move us away from our next stop, that and a very full toilet. The sun was shining and the wind had mostly… Read more »
31/12/17 – 01/01/18 We walked the coast path out of San Jose towards the east, working our way up through the streets of the town until we found the path… Read more »
20/12/17 – 22/12/17 After Ronda we made our way down to the coast to meet up with Aaron and his fiancée Katie who were joining us for a few pre-Christmas… Read more »
18/12/17 Our last post was on New Year’s Day 2018, so we’re going back in time to catch up on the happenings of later December 2017. We had stayed the… Read more »
16/12/17 – 17/12/17 From Seville we travelled south east to the Sierra de Grazalema natural park where we hoped to get our mountain fix. Our first stop was El Bosque,… Read more »
13/12/17 North of Huelva, the town of Aracena sits in the folds of the Sierra de Aracena; gentle forested hills and mountains that form part of the wider Sierra Morena… Read more »
06/12/17 – 08/12/17 We didn’t intend to spend much time in the Algarve, but we wanted to see the rock formations of the Algarve cliffs somewhere and Lagos seemed as… Read more »
05/12/17 Well…one of them anyway. Our parking spot was at Cabo São Vicente, the south-west corner of Europe near the town of Sagres. We had emptied and refilled Bertie at… Read more »
03/12/17 – 04/12/17 When we woke up at the Praia de Bordeira we were surrounded by vans. The usual big white boxes of various nationalities, but also smaller campervans and… Read more »
02/12/17 From our parking spot at the Praia de Almograve we could access part of the Ruta Vincentina, two interconnected long distance trails that run all the way down the… Read more »
28/11/17-29/11/17 The forecast for the 28th was rain, so we didn’t make many plans except for a spot of grocery shopping. It was a mega two supermarket shop. Lidl for… Read more »
26/11/17-27/11/17 Next we drove to Foz do Lizandro, intending to stop there for the evening. We parked up on the clifftop and walked down steps to the beach where the… Read more »
25/11/17 Peniche is a town on a small headland that sticks out from the west coast of Portugal just north of Lisbon. It’s known for it’s great surf, and because… Read more »
19/11/17 – 20/11/17 When we moved into our house in Exmouth I remember Paul installing decking in the back garden – decking steps from the backdoor, decking over the crazy-paved… Read more »
15/11/17-16/11/17 The national park of Peneda-Gerês was a place we fell in love with during our short visit. The first place since we crossed the channel that makes it into… Read more »