Sunday 22nd November Either title is apt, they are both true and I really couldn’t decide which I prefered! It was cold last night and it rained and rained. My father, ex scout master, had always taught me never to…

Saturday 21st November Making travel plans for today has been one of the hardest decisions I’ve made. Do we go south and get to an aire that gets a poor rating? Do we go west and reach a town with…

Friday 20th November We were woken up to the sound of workmen messing about fixing the waste water drain at the services. Our Spanish neighbour had mentioned that it was blocked to the Police yesterday afternoon and here they were…

Thursday 19th November When we woke Wednesday morning the sun was blazing down and the skies were clear. We’ve got a good free wifi signal here, electric and the sun was shining so we (I) decided to get the printer…

Thursday 14th May We’ve no idea what they were making in the industrial units at Zumaia but they were still going at midnight although it did go quiet after that. Didn’t hear anything else until 7am when lorries started moving…

Tuesday 12th May The plan was to leave Caberceno really early, get to Bilbao early in the morning, park up and get a bus into the city and have a good days touring but as usual we were up late…

Sunday 10th May We left Gijon on Wednesday heading along the coast, we’ve still got 6 weeks left but it feels like we are getting towards the end, never mind, we’re planning our next trip already. We’ve stopped at a…

Monday 4th May I offered to take her out for dinner and what happens? She blows me out, just as well really, the rain started hammering down. We are in a free aire in a large mining town. It’s on…

Sunday 3rd May The aire at Astorga only had two vans when we arrived but they were still coming in at 11pm and I suddenly realised why, tomorrow was the 1st of May and the public holidays fall on the…