Christmas amongst the Polytunnels
23/12/17 – 27/12/17 After saying goodbye to Aaron and Katie we started heading further east, looking for somewhere to stay for Christmas. We used the ACSI book to try and… Read more »
23/12/17 – 27/12/17 After saying goodbye to Aaron and Katie we started heading further east, looking for somewhere to stay for Christmas. We used the ACSI book to try and… 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 »
19/12/17 Our trip to Ronda took us by surprise. When we headed out of the Grazalema mountains we thought we would go further south into Cadiz and have a day… 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 »
re 15/12/17 At the end of our day in Seville our mobile devices told us that we’d walked over 9 miles, which I can believe as my feet were aching…. Read more »
14/12/17 From Aracena we decided to head south towards Seville, on the way we were planning to visit Italica, a Roman city that has been partially excavated near the current… 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 »
11/12/17 – 12/12/17 We crossed the border between Portugal and Spain, passing into the province of Huelva, an area of Spain I had never heard of before. There is a… Read more »
08/12/17 – 09/12/17 Our planning day had been fruitful and we knew what we wanted to do before meeting up with Aaron. So we were off on the way to… 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 »
30/11/17 – 01/12/17 The next couple of days were spent around the Setubal area, birthplace of Jose Mourinho, the Special One. Setubal is just south of Lisbon and we skirted… 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 »
24/11/17 We were staying at a large paid aire at Foz do Arelho. This area of parking nestled between the coast and the Óbidos lagoon and was very busy with… Read more »
23/11/17 We spent the night of 22nd parked at Batalha in preparation for a visit to Batalha Monastery. We wanted to visit one monastery while we were in Portugal and… Read more »