Black Squirrels in La Sila
30/03/18 – 31/03/18 It might seem like we’re doing the Hokey-Cokey with our regular alternation between coast and inland. It was time to put our left leg in and move… Read more »
Category: Wildlife
A Walk and Two Doughnuts
10/03/18 We stayed in Marina di Camerota for two very different nights. On Friday night we were joined by a couple of Italian motorhomes in the big carpark behind the… Read more »
Putting Down Roots
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 »
Cycling in Cabo de Gata
28/12/17 – 29/12/17 We were looking forward to visiting the Natural Park of Cabo de Gata, somewhere that we had seen on blogs and forums and imagined we would enjoy…. Read more »
Mountain Summits and Vultures
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 »
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 »
Laid Back at Praia de Bordeira
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 »
Portugal’s Silver Coast
21/11/17 – 22/11/17 We had a moment of deja vu as we approached our next destination of Sao Pedro do Moel. This is Portugal’s Silver Coast and had some striking… Read more »
Paiva Walkways, the Ultimate in Garden Decking
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 »
One Mackerel, Two One-Way Streets and Three Lighthouses
08/11/17 – 10/11/17 We had a bit of a lazy day on 8th November. For some reason we just couldn’t get moving and our plans for a bike ride ended… Read more »
Calm Waters
28/10/17 Further south, still enveloped by the pine forests of the Landes region of France, is a purpose built resort with the rather long name of Vieux-Boucau-Les-Bains. Part of it’s… 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 »
The Road to Carsaig
19/09/17 Unintentionally we made a poor decision today – we had to choose between another day lazing at Fidden Farm and maybe popping over on the ferry to Iona, or… Read more »
More, Otters and Eagles
16/09/17-17/09/17 After a lovely day at Calgary Bay, the weather turned a little gloomy again, but when we had last seen the forecast it was just the one day of… Read more »
Carradale Coastal Walk
05/09/17 We woke up to fine weather and so continued with our plan to walk around the coast to Carradale. The intention was to follow part of the Kintyre way to… Read more »
Ferry Finally
04/09/17 We didn’t get the first ferry from Lochranza, we left it till 10ish to get in the queue. Although we were second in the queue we were waved on first… Read more »
Getting Otter
29/08/17 There was much excitement the next morning. Paul popped out for his morning cigarette and saw some movement in the water…it was an otter. Not the first otter sighting… Read more »
In the footsteps of pilgrims … almost
19/08/17 – 20/08/17 Because of my usual tardiness in posting the blog I have decided to label each post with the date(s) it pertains to. That way you, the reader,… Read more »
Blogging Anxiety and our final days in Anglesey
You may have noticed that I haven’t blogged for a week, this has caused me a little anxiety, but not quite enough to motivate me to blog. The reason for a lack of… Read more »
Puffin Watching
Anglesey has it’s own adjacent island in the north west corner, a smaller fractal image of the relationship between Wales and Anglesey; this island is Holy Island and in it’s north west… Read more »