The last blog for this season.                                      A journey through France, then Home.                                                                                We left Lagrasse. Now we are off to Beziers by the Mediterranean coast, not a seaside resort, but a very interesting city. The population of Beziers is 75,999 its Famous for the annual bullfighting festival (feria), and a five day party attracts thousands of people at the start of August. Beziers is not on the coast, but a beach bus runs to the sea every 20 minutes to Valras plage. Another beautiful city, Beziers. But now we have to move on because we are catching the shuttle from … Continue reading

Here we go again, travelling to Palamos, a very attractive port and holiday resort, we stayed two days on a lovely motorhome site. Palamos has two beaches, a fishing harbour, a marina, and an old town. we liked Palamos very much. It is on the Mediterranean coast, one of the best resorts on Costa Brava between Barcelona and the French border. Population 17,600, we would go again. We have only got about 14 days of our holiday left 😢 and we’ll be going to France soon. But before we do, we’re going to visit Figueres and Roses. First up, Figueres, … Continue reading Discovering Costa Brava and the Pyrenees mountains, France.

Leving La Selva del Camp today. We had to ring up the police when we arrived, and they came and took our money 10 €, and opened the barrier for us to get in and give us a password to get out. A great little aire. We felt very safe here. Enjoyed La Salva and our train ride to visit Tarragona. Moving on to a seaside resort, Vilanova la Geltru is only 15 miles away. A big change in the weather it rained all day, none stop for eight hours. There’s not much to do in this weather, so we … Continue reading Vilannova La Geltru, Gaya, Barcelona, Palamos and the Costa Brava.

Turis is a town with a population 6600 and is an agricultural town surrounded by fertile fields and a rolling hill and mountains. We had a bike ride around the town. We stayed on an aire provided by the town free of charge thank you Turis. Just one night here. We enjoyed staying in Turis. Now we’re going for a city tour of Valencia. We are staying just outside of Valencia on a campsite next to the tram station, which takes us into Valencia. We have been to Valencia before, but it was just a flying visit, so we are … Continue reading We have been in the Beautiful Spanish mountains. now a city tour of Valencia.

We would have stayed longer, but most of the campsites are full up with Northern Europeans coming to southern Spain for the winter. This is the busiest time of the year, from December to March from Gibraltar all the way up the Mediterranean coast, the warmest part of Spain in winter. Most of the campsites and aires are booked up a year in advance. We are going wild camping at Santa Pola on the sand dumes next to the beach. What a beautiful place to stay for three days. A stretch of beach between Santa Pola and Alicante, we were … Continue reading We had to say good bye to Los Alcazares camping, because they didn’t have a place for us.

Almeria’s Plastic Greenhouse produces 3 million tons of Fruits and Vegetables a year and supplies most of Europe with fresh Fruits & Vegetables all year round. Covering 150 square miles. Our drive along the motorway from Motril to Cabo De Gata we were surrounded by plastic greenhouses. 🤔 We arrived at The Cabo De Gata – Nijar National Park, it was raining weather not so good at the moment wet and windy. We parked up on our campsite still plenty of greenhouse about,  we settled in for the night. Next day the weather was better warm and a sunny day … Continue reading Our next stop Cado de Gata to get to our next stop, we need to drive through Almeria the world of plastic greenhouse.

It’s time for us to move on we’ve got just under fifty-five days of our ninety-day Brexit limit left. We have enjoyed our month at H&M Camping Rincon, it is a lovely campsite we have always been made very welcome the four times we’ve been here, and we will be going again. We met some lovely people during our stay, we all went for a meal the day before we left, and a party on site. We have had a great time thanks to you all 🌞👍. We are going northeast along the Mediterranean Sea to France and maybe Italy … Continue reading Leaving Benagalbon Spain, traveling along the Mediterranean. Blog five.

One more week here in Benagalbon – Costa del sol. The weather has been good to us very mild and plenty of sunshine just what we needed, we always feel better when we come here in January – February. This is our fourth year coming here at this time of year and we love it. So we have made the most of our last week here, we’ve been out for a meal or two we had a party on the campsite and went out in our van to Torre del mar and Valez Malaga. One day I went out on … Continue reading Blog number four. The end of a lovely month in Benagalabon

It’s great to meet up again at the camping area M&H We meet up in the club known as the 5 o ⏰ club and we have a Bilingual conversation. We are doing our best to learn some Spanish and some other languages, but it’s hard, we use the app translator it’s a great help. I think the British are a bit lazy at learning languages reason being English is a world language and is spoken all over Europe where we are at the moment. But we do try to make an effort to speak Spanish and it is appreciated. … Continue reading We have just had a very lazy week chatting with some of our northern European friends, who we haven’t seen for a year or so. Traveling blog. 25th January.

We have been coming here for the last three years in our motorhome staying at Camper areas M & H, El Rincon. A family-run site making us very welcome. The campsite is owned by an English lady and a Spanish man who have three children the site is run by Cath and her son Nacho. It’s a very friendly site we are staying here for the next four weeks. This part of Spain is the warmest part of Europe at this time of year, attracting people with motor homes from the northern parts of Europe. In January and February, the … Continue reading Settling down in Spain, Andalucia and Malaga Province.

We set off on a wet and windy day in January. Torrential rain all the way to the channel tunnel. That was a journey not to forget, it was blowing a gale when we got to the channel tunnel so glad we were not getting a ferry over to France. The next morning up at five am, to catch the six-thirty shuttle to France. It only takes thirty-five minutes to get across to France a very smooth crossing. We have a long journey a head of us to Malaga Spain, we are going to take five days to get there … Continue reading Start of our adventure to the Costa Del Sol, France, Italy, Switzerland and Germany.

We are going to Spain, France and Italy we have still got the bug for travel. First off we’re going to Spain on the Costa Del Sol, The warmest part of Europe in the winter months between 17/20°. We are meeting up with some friends we have met up with over the last few years from Northern Europe, Denmark Sweden Germany Holland and France. So we have made preparations, Like having the van serviced there is always a job to be done on a van. I have repaired the upholstery, bought new seat covers for the captain seats, and I … Continue reading A new travel blog for 2024.