
Leon’s Sistine Chapel of Romanesque art.
Casa Botines We’ve been fascinated with any building that Antoni Gaudi has been involved with since we went to Barcelona back in 2002. There is surely no similar architect in …
Travels around Europe with a motorhome and a cat
Casa Botines We’ve been fascinated with any building that Antoni Gaudi has been involved with since we went to Barcelona back in 2002. There is surely no similar architect in …
You’ve heard of Romanesque when it comes to architecture, but have you ever heard the term Pre-Romanesque? It’s really for architecture that was before its time before the Romanesque style …
It’s been 24 days since we had a day that was sunny AND warm. What’s wrong with that? What a terrible summer we’ve had! We arrived in Alcobaca and it …
We’ve been away for over 4 months now and really hadn’t seen any rain but we were expecting quite a lot over the next week. In Cudillero because of the …
Are you sure you want to go to Ronda, asked the hubby. It’s just a bridge. We could drive past, stop to take a photo and just keep on going. …
This was a superb Free Aire where Alcobaca’s local Camping and Caravan club provided a great place for visitors to the city to park up. It’s right in the centre …
June was strange. We spent much of the time in Portugal and also in the north of Spain but despite what should have been summer, it really wasn’t. Early in …
We spent much of May in Portugal and we felt it was an odd combination of expensive and cheap. The camping and parking were very cheap or mostly free, while …
Wow, what a month. We feel like we really packed in a lot this month. Lots of great sight-seeing, some relaxing breaks at beaches and pretty locations, and some fancy …
March was our first full month on the road and now we’re feeling much more settled into things. Things are working like clock-work really. We plan, we drive, we arrive …
While we were in Guimaraes we had set ourselves two main tasks. The first was to visit the Castle of Guimaraes which was voted by the people of Portugal as …
Our preparations for our European Tour are progressing well. It’s been very hard to adapt to the cold conditions in the UK Winter after 12 years of living in the …