Walking Walls in Lucca
25/01/18 The city of Lucca was our first stop in Tuscany, founded by the Etruscans and with an abundance of renaissance buildings, it looked like a pleasant place to start… Read more »
Category: Heritage
A Tale of Two Towns
21/01/18 – 22/01/18 Normally our travel schedule is built around things that we want to see or do, but after Chateau Peyrepertuse we didn’t really know what to do next…. Read more »
Squirrel Cages and Putlock Holes
20/01/18 Our trip through France was just going to be a fleeting one, a few days to see us from Spain to Italy. Still, we wanted to make the most… Read more »
Tie a Yellow Ribbon
17/01/18 – 18/01/18 We took another long drive north, heading past Barcelona towards the town on Figueres. Along the way we passed fabulous scenery, including Montserrat – the serrated mountain… Read more »
Talking, Eating and Drinking with Friends
12/01/18 – 13/01/18 After our short stint in the Alpujarras we were back in Malaga, completing a round trip we had started before Christmas. This time we were meeting friends… Read more »
Ronda the Unexpected
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 »
A Busy Day in Sevilla
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 »
Roman Ruins at Italica
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 »
In the Footsteps of Columbus
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 »
The Special One
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 »
Underground, Overground
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 »
Roaming Roman Walls
04/11/17 – 05/11/17 We had been watching the weather forecast for a couple of days, tracking a low pressure system that looked like it would hit Portugal and Spain. It… Read more »
The Stairs to Dragonstone
03/11/17 The reason for our slight back-track was to visit San Juan de Gaztelugatxe, a small islet with a chapel on the top, linked to the mainland with a man… Read more »
A Quick Trip to Bilbao
02/11/17 The following morning we set off for Bilbao, the Dutch couple next to us tried to persuade us that the journey was easier and more enjoyable by bus and… Read more »
Border Crossings
31/10/17 Crossing the border into Spain was barely noticed, no large signs declaiming the point at which we moved from one country to another, just a gradual dawning of realization… Read more »
Suffolk Coast
11/10/17-12/10/17 We moved from our overnight parking spot to the National Trust parking at Dunwich Heath ready for a stroll around the heath. The heath to the north and inland was… Read more »
Studley Royal And Fountains Abbey
02/10/17 The cockerel that had been strutting around the previous evening decided to give full voice at sunrise so we were up bright and early. With the dawning of the… Read more »
Border Lines
30/09/17 Having crossed the border back into England we thought it was only fitting that we visit Hadrian’s wall to see how the Roman empire managed the border with the wild lands outside it’s… Read more »
Final Days in Scotland
28/09/17-28/09/17 Over the last week we have started to feel a little unsettled as we realised our time in Scotland was coming to a close – what should we do… Read more »
Fabulous Falkirk
27/09/17-28/09/17 I would never have thought about visiting Falkirk if it wasn’t for Facebook. I will admit I have a bit of a Facebook addiction, accessing it far more than… Read more »