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.
Good walkabout in town this afternoon lovely shops will return tomorrow.
30th March Biarritz
Two trips into town today the bus tickets are €2 for 24 hours of unlimited travel and the journey is only 10 mins.
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.
Only 4 camping cars on the site great toilet facilities.
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.
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).
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.
Looked round the Cathedral the resting place of 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
Clock change today. Walked into Burgos for coffee and to watch the Samana Santa processions.
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.
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.
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.
25th March 2016 Salamanca
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
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.
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.
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.
Had lunch in town at Time out a massive eatery at the market we both had… Bochechas Porco Preto (Any one want to Guess).
A good hard 2 days but on we go again tomorrow to ?
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.
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.
Walked around Alcazabar ( King of Spain’s residence) Lovely gardens interesting again a bit better than Granada.
Went to a display of The Terracotta Army interesting. And a few other touristy things.
15 – 16 March 2016 Camping Parque De Campismo Quarteira
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
15 years 150000 miles of European Travel through 16 Counties