29th – 30th March Biarritz

29 – 30th March Biarritz

Biarritz
Biarritz

Traveled up to France 35 minutes dive. Booked in Camping biarritz. Went for a 1 hour run to Eden Rock along the sea front. Catching the bus in this afternoon.

Maureen Biarritz
Maureen Biarritz

Good walkabout in town this afternoon lovely shops will return tomorrow.

Maureen and Darian in Biarritz
Maureen and Darian in Biarritz

30th March Biarritz

24 Hr unlimited travel €2
24 Hr unlimited travel €2

Two trips into town today the bus tickets are €2 for 24 hours of unlimited travel and the journey is only 10 mins.

Surfers Biarritz
Surfers Biarritz

Lovely coffee at Milwaukee Café a small stall sit at the counter in the market with cake to die for fab place look it up.  Spent a large amount of time watching the surfers down at the beach.

Pool-camping-Biarritz
Pool-camping-Biarritz

Only 4 camping cars on the site great toilet facilities.

28th March Camping Jaizkibel Hondarribia

28th March Camping Jaizkibel Hondarribia

Maureen Hondarribia
Maureen Hondarribia

Drove up this morning from Burgos 2.5 Hr. an interesting drive temperature went from 6C to 16C as we dropped to the coast.

Booked in and went for a walk into the old  town and beach area, the other-side of the Bay is France in the next picture we could see surfers, France an airplane and the mountain of La Rhun that we ran up 9 years ago.

La-Rhun

may stop another day if the weather is as good tomorrow and do our first run for a while. All our washing up to date so down to town for Pintxos and Patas Bravas (Got it wrong tonight can’t have good food all the time).

Honarribia Old Town
Honarribia Old Town

26 – 27th March 2016 Burgos

26th March 2016 Burgos

Burgos Cathedral
Burgos Cathedral

Moved up to Burgos 2.5 Hour drive a bit of shopping on the way MILK! 31.2 litres to store in the van Garage so easy to buy bulk when you have the space. Walk into Burgos about 40 mins. The town is ever so busy, eating houses full.

Burgos-Cathedral
Burgos-Cathedral

Looked round the Cathedral the resting place of El Cid.

Mr & Mrs El-Cid
Mr & Mrs El-Cid

Just checked the weather for our move onto the Atlantic coast Argh! not good have seen a word SNOW will look it up on google.

27th March 2016 Burgos

Maureen and friends
Maureen and friends

Clock change today. Walked into Burgos for coffee and to watch the Samana Santa processions.

Burgos Semana Santa
Burgos Semana Santa

Football supporters in town Burgos v Santander in the bars 1100 match starts at 1800. Lots of walkers passing through the town doing the Burgos or Sahagun to Santiago de Compostelo. Lunch 5 different Pinchos and Lopez De haro.

Pinchos and Lopez De Haro
Pinchos and Lopez De Haro

24 – 25th march 2016 Salamanca

24th march 2016 Salamanca

Plaza Mayor Salamanca
Plaza Mayor Salamanca

Great drive up today up onto the Spanish central plateau road passed 2 dead Bulls on motorway an unusual sight any-where, the road goes up to 4000 ft snow about, temperature outside van 6 C.

Maureen-Plaza-Mayor-Salaman
Maureen-Plaza-Mayor-Salamanca

Arrived 1130 booked in this site has 2 live wires live and live neutral ? got the bikes out and cycled along a rough river path to the town of Salamanca wow interesting will catch the bus in tomorrow to try to catch the festivities.

Amazing-street-statue
Amazing-human-street-statue

25th March 2016 Salamanca

Salamanca-Cathedral
Salamanca-Cathedral

Good touristy sort of day a lovely place. Click the link below to see what happens in Spain during Easter. Had a good day managed to get a bus in and out of Salamanca without getting lost. Sweet XXX

Semana-Santa click below link to see history of this event
Semana-Santa click below link to see history of this event

 

Semana Santa (click to see our Easter Week)

 

22 – 23 rd March 2016 Caceres

22nd March 2016 Caceres

Moved up to Caceres this morning glad we did not move when the clocks changed we would never have got here, left at 0800 for a 2.5 hour journey crossed a border clock jumped forward 1 hour so we arrived at 1130 if the clock had moved to spring time wow. Rest day to catch up with washing and clean the van after some wet traveling the weather is a bit unsettled at the moment.

Pitch at Camping Caceres with private toilet and shower.
Pitch at Camping Caceres with private toilet and shower.

23rd March 2016 Caceres

Caceres Holy week ( Semana Santa) Lots going on for 9 days here lots of processions with thousands of the brotherhood orders, town full of tourists. Had a good walk about in the old town and the shopping area stopped for some traditional food just of the main square a bit cheaper.

The Brotherhood
The Brotherhood

21 March 2016 Orbitur Evora

21 March 2016 Orbitur Evora

Evora
Evora

Travelled up to Evora, walked into town 20 mins. Walk about to the Cathedral, Temple of Diana the crypt of bones and Museum.

Crypt of Bones Evora
Crypt of Bones Evora

Topped up shopping at a super market and had a relaxing afternoon.

Evora crypt of Bones
Evora crypt of Bones

Last Day in Portugal my MojO completely ran out in Portugal  it has become a place not to return to again.

NICE!
NICE!

19-20 March Camping Caparica Lisbon

19-20 March Camping Caparica Lisbon

lisbon1

3 .5 Hour drive up from the Algarve toll cost €40 went into Lisbon via bus and Ferry to Belem caught tram to the center and had a walkabout, the city is busy as there are 35000 runners here for the Lisbon Half Marathon.

2nd Day over to Lisbon wow what a busy day the town is at a stand still due to the race difficult moving about and you need transport here to get from Belem to the center so walked half of it.

lisbon3

Had lunch in town at Time out a massive eatery at the market we both had… Bochechas Porco Preto (Any one want to Guess).

Lunch in Lisbon
Lunch in Lisbon

A good hard 2 days but on we go again tomorrow to ?

12 March 2016 Puerto Santa Maria Cadiz 18 March 2016 Village Turiscampo Lagos

12 March 2016 Puerto Santa Maria Cadiz

Tried to cycle to Cadiz via Puerto Real, had a few problems again it is impossible to get there easily due to road constraints. (Ask us about this one Opps!!) 3 Hr. cycle.

Alcabazar Sevilla
Alcabazar Sevilla

13-14 March 2016 Sevilla Camping Villsom Dos Hermanos

Arrived early booked in to this rather not so good site. 20 mins Bus to Sevilla had a look round the Cathedral again. Had another bad Costa Coffee experience.  So tried Starbucks next day a bit better.

Terracotta Army Exhibition Sevilla
Terracotta Army Exhibition Sevilla

Walked around Alcazabar  ( King of Spain’s residence) Lovely gardens interesting again a bit better than Granada.

Palace Sevilla
Palace Sevilla

Went to a display of The Terracotta Army interesting. And a few other touristy  things.

Baths Alcaxabar Sevilla
Baths Alcaxabar Sevilla

15 – 16 March 2016 Camping Parque De Campismo Quarteira

Graffiti-at-its-best
Graffiti-at-its-best

Arrived early time change to UK time walk about. Had a run next morning lunch then a walk to Vilamoura.

17 March 2016 Village Turiscampo Lagos

Beach at Luz
Beach at Luz

Moved down the Algarve to 4 Star luxury for a couple of days not stopping longer as 5 days of rain heading this way so will move north towards Lisbon. Cycle to Luz then a spot of lunch then cycle to Lagos.

4-Star-Luxury at Village Turiscampo Lagos Algarve
4-Star-Luxury at Village Turiscampo Lagos Algarve

18 March 2016 Village Turiscampo Lagos

Rained off walk into Espiche village

Espiche-Algarve
Espiche-Algarve

10th – 11th March 2016 Puerto Santa Maria

10th – 11th March 2016 Puerto Santa Maria Cadiz

10th March 2016

Cycling day started on a cycle path ended up in a Maze finishing up at a Navel Base could not get to Rota easily so abandoned after 2 Hr.

Beach Puerto Santa Maria looking at Cadiz
Beach Puerto Santa Maria looking at Cadiz

11th March 2016

Run this morning along beach area to Puerto Sherry again adding a bit. Visited the Osborne Bodegas and picked up a couple of bottles of sherry. After seeing all the Osborne bulls all over Spain we thought we had to visit. Bumped into Christine and Roberto who we first met in Barcelona 2 years ago had a good catch up.

Don't  think this bin will blow away.
Don’t think this bin will blow away.

9th March 2016 Cadiz

9th March 2016 Cadiz

Cadiz
Cadiz

Run this morning then over to Cadiz for a walk about and lunch, I don’t think we need to come here again its a bit ???? In our 8 years of none stop travels we have loved everywhere we go all places have good and bad points of which we have enjoyed even NAFF Gibraltar. we did meet two Australians on the site that we gave some help to and they said they were giving it a miss ? back to Cadiz run down dirty rip off prices for rubbish food.

Below is a picture of what the light at the end of the tunnel looks like for those who are looking for it.

The LIGHT at the End of the TUNNEL
The LIGHT at the End of the TUNNEL

15 years 150000 miles of European Travel through 16 Counties