Category: Spain 2019

  • More Road, More Memories

    Étaples, France Raising a glass to our recent adventures. Tomorrow we’ll be back in GB. Have a lot of fabulous memories of Spain. Now where […]

  • Long Drives Need Good Memories

    Marboué, France We have done so much in the last month, and have so many great memories, so 480km driving through France gave us time […]

  • Definitely in France

    Cadillac, France The rain persisted all night but we woke up to sun shine. Heard on the grapevine about a walk in vets just down […]

  • Adios

    Oloron-Sainte-Marie, France Its raining, its pouring, and we are all hiding in the van on a campsite in France. We woke up this morning to […]

  • Sunsetting over Spain

    Guardia, Araba, Spain Our last full day in Spain has been brilliant. We have looked at traditional and contemporary, natural and man-made. It started this […]

  • A Beautiful City

    Elciego, Álava, Spain We like small and especially when it is perched on a rock. Famously, or it should be, Frias is the smallest city […]

  • Following the Music Again

    Burgos, Spain We cycled into Burgos, a city of white stone,through the impressive gateway to our first sight of the cathedral. It has been declared […]

  • Gaudi II

    Burgos, Spain Parking was the only thing difficult about Astorga, but that was only because the entrance was not signposted. We only drove past it […]

  • From Roman Gold to Knights Templar

    Ponferrada, León, Spain Only the Romans could wash away a whole mountain and change the landscape for ever just for Gold. Ruina Montium, or wrecking […]

  • Chasing Rainbows

    A Rúa, Ourense, Spain The boat left the jetty at 10.30, we could not understand a word of the onboard commentary but that didn’t matter […]

  • Off Season

    Peirao De Santo Estevo, Ourense, Spain We looked at the Sil River and gorge and thought wow we have to go there. Then we found […]

  • The Rain in Spain….

    A Guarda, Pontevedra, Spain …mainly all fell on our campsite last night so we thought we were going to have a wet day but it […]

  • Crossing Borders

    La Guardia, Pontevedra, Spain We thought Padron, our overnight stop, was a small inconsequential town, how wrong we were!! Our first hint was when numerous […]

  • Three in One

    Padrón, A Coruña, Spain Started this morning, on the last day of the San Froilan festival, at a medieval market with a strong Celtic influence. […]

  • Lugo

    Lugo, Spain Left the coast and we were in the middle of Lugo by mid day only to find our chosen car park was full […]

  • Biggggggg Surf

    Playa De Cathedrale, Barreiros, Lugo, Spain A not too early bike ride to the Cathedral beach. Tide coming in and had to paddle although 4 […]

  • Sorry Cudillero

    Playa De Cathedrals, Barreiros, Lugo, Spain Your sunrise was magnificent and again right time right place we watch 2 locals harvest a local delicacy, long […]

  • Real Lives

    Cudillero, Asturias, Spain It takes days like this to show how spectacular every other day is. We woke to sunshine this morning but had to […]

  • The Bells, The Bells…

    Villaviciosa, Asturias, Spain We started driving in dark the 12km to Lagos Covadonga, up 3500ft, with numerous hairpin bends and sheer drops. It was amazing, […]

  • Cangas de Onis and upwards

    Cangas de Onís, Asturias, Spain We had heard that this was a good market and it was with lots of local produce. We bought smelly […]