Monday 27th April Happy Birthday Mum, hope you have a great day and won’t miss the flower pictures that aren’t in this blog. For everyone else, I did give her a call this morning and she’s doing fine. For her…
What a Load of Old Scallops
Thursday 23rd April It’s been a Chris and Andy Pretty type of day today! We are on a peninsula and following the coast round but we could do with a bit of food, beer and wine so we see a…
Back to Spain
Saturday 18th April The weather overnight was atrocious and I did get up in the middle of the night to check that the river wasn’t rising. This was the view out of the window just before we went to bed.…
Barcelos
Friday 17th April We left Porto aiming for the coast again at Villa do Conde and easily found the aire, unfortunately it was nothing special so I didn’t take any photos of it at all. It wasn’t helped by the…
How to get the right bus home
Monday 13th April We made our usual early morning start, leaving Frankie about 10.30am, we had a busy day, hence the early start. We’d been told that we could get a bus into Porto for €2.10 each, it’s a 30…
How Much?
Sunday 12th April, part 2 We had a choice of two aires at Porto, one very close to the city and free but the reviews weren’t that brilliant (there could be a drugs house behind the aire) or an aire…
A Touch of Deja Vu
Sunday 12th April The bells in Fatima went off at 7am and sounded like they were inside the van. Don’t they know that Lucy will not get up before 9am no matter how large the bells are or how urgently…
Fatima
Tuesday 7th April After emptying the water tank and filling up with water (but not emptying the toilet, the drain was blocked) we made our way to the next destination, Fatima, only 20km away until Stella gets involved and takes…
Typical Bank Holiday
Monday 6th April When we arrived here at Vila Nove do Barquinha last night the sun was shining, the car park was full up and we had to wait a while until some of the cars moved off so that…
An easy mistake to make
Sunday 5th April Making our slow way north we aimed for an aire at Barragem Pego do Altar, halfway between where we were and Evora, somewhere we had marked in our map book as a place worth visiting. We’d heard…