A Long Drive to a Border Town
09/12/18 – 10/12/18 We spent Sunday driving north through Spain. We had a destination in mind, but sometimes life throws us a little disappointment. We were almost retracing our steps… Read more »
Category: Spain
A Final Stop at the Seaside
07/12/18 – 08/12/18 We could have been accused of having no imagination as we trundled back to the Castell Saint Jordi. With a colder spell of weather approaching we wanted… Read more »
The Ebro Delta – Birds, Sunsets and Cycling
05/12/18 – 06/12/18 When you look at the Delta de l’Ebre (if you are Catalan – Delta del Ebro if you are Spanish) on the map it looks like a… Read more »
A Campanille and a Castle
04/12/18 We were still heading north and fancied a walk in the Serra d’Irta natural park. This area of hills and coast is between Peniscola and Alcossebre and we’d walked… Read more »
The Kayak Makes an Appearance
03/12/18 Wow, it’s been such a busy Christmas and tonight is the first time I’ve sat down in the van to do some blogging. I cant believe I’ve let it… Read more »
A Rocky Ridge in the Desierto de las Palmas
02/12/18 Inland from Benicassim and Castellon is a small area of hills that had been calling to us each time we visited. A quick google search showed that the natural… Read more »
Retracing Our Steps
30/12/18 – 01/12/18 It was hard to believe it was December already, the weather had turned positively balmy and only the short days hinted at the season. Because it was… Read more »
Into the City of Valencia
28/11/18 – 29/11/18 Valencia. For a few days we’d been considering it as our terminus for this trip. The furthest point south before we start heading back to the UK. We… Read more »
Segorbe: Waterfountains and Waterfalls
We left Castellon to head inland to get bit of variety. Our initial destination was Sagunto. I wanted to visit Sagunto castle, the remains of a Roman fortress topped… Read more »
Beach Time -Three Contrasting Coastal Loactions
22/11/18 – 25/11/18 If there’s one thing we have realised on our travels so far it’s that beach locations can offer so much and deliver so little. It has, I… Read more »
El Masroig – Wine and Walking
21/11/18 When we left the parking area at La Selva there was already someone waiting to take our spot. I really hope the local community gain something from having the… Read more »
A Day in Roman Tarragona
19/11/18 – 20/11/18 Tarragona is not all about ancient Rome, but the industrial port city on the shores of the Meditteranean was the earliest Roman city founded on the Iberian… Read more »
Leaving the Mountains and Poblet Monastery
18/11/18 – 19/11/18 We woke up to a dreary morning at La Pobla de Segur and decided to move on rather than stay and look around the area. As the… Read more »
The Vall de Boi Part 2 – Our Final Days in the Pyrenees
16/11/18 – 17/11/18 As I’m writing this blog post I am sitting in Bertie at a parking spot on the meditteranean coast and the outside temperature is 21°C. It’s a… Read more »
The Vall de Boi Part 1 – Taüll
14/11/18 – 15/11/18 The Vall de Boi is the second major entry point to the Aiguestortes I Estany de Sant Maurici national park (the other being Espot). The valley runs… Read more »
The Gerber Valley and Vall d’Aran
12/11/18 – 13/11/18 If you travel anti-clockwise from Rialp around the Aigüestortes I Estany de Sant Maurici national park, you eventually end up in the Vall d’Aran. It’s a drive… Read more »
Rest and Remembrance
11/11/18 The 11th of November has been an ever looming date in the diary this year. The 100th anniversary of Armistice Day for World War I. Throughout the UK and many… Read more »
Walks Around Espot and the Estany de Sant Maurici
09/11/18 – 10/11/18 When planning on leaving Andorra we had been trying to work out what next. Truth to tell we hadn’t been chased away from the mountains as soon… Read more »
Andorra: Love It or Loath It?
03/11/18 -04/11/18 We made a complete misjudgement with our visit to Andorra. We decided to drive there on a Saturday on a Spanish holiday weekend. It wasn’t planned, we had… Read more »
Queralbs and Nuria. Snow, Water and an Unexpected Train Journey
31/10/18 -02/11/18 The last day of October was rather rainy and unpleasant. We drove to Ripoll, which is quite a large town for the area, and did some supermarket shopping…. Read more »