Pretty Casares and Griffon Vultures
After our few days in Estepona we planned to visit one of the Pueblos Blancos (white villages) and headed up towards Casares – which is only nine miles from the coast but feels like a different world. The road from Manilva to Casares (A-377) has got to be the worst road we have ever driven. […]
Long Walks And Coincidences in Gibraltar
From Casares we headed back towards the the south-western coast of Spain, to a very famous piece of rock (no, not Blackpool, though not so far removed!) – we wanted to call to Gibraltar. We have been there many times before when we lived in Spain. Every time we had visitors it was a regular […]
Conil de la Frontera on The Coast of Light
It has been a long time since we updated our blog. A change of circumstances had us hurrying back to the UK in early May 2017. But we had a few more places to visit before that and the next number of posts relate to the end of our first tour of 2017. After we […]
Sightseeing In Seville – The Beating Heart of Spain
Seville had been on our list of must-dos since we arrived in Spain. So after we said goodbye to Andy and Moira in Conil as they were about to start the long journey back to Northern Ireland, we too headed north but only as far as our anticipated visit to Seville. The car park come […]
The Next Travel Chapter
Whilst we stayed at Mikki’s Place for three weeks, we received 3 pieces of news that would change our travel plans and have us heading back to the UK. We were offered jobs as seasonal campsite wardens for 6 months. We thought this wold be the ideal job allowing us to save the majority of […]
Friends, Ruined Plans & Flat Batteries in Northern Spain
While we were at Oradour-Sur-Glane, we received a message from a couple of friends we had met on the road on our previous tour. We met Wayne & Felixa in Javea in early 2017. They had arrived in France that morning from the Eurotunnel with the intention of hurtling down through France to get to […]