10th November 2009 We are at a campsite by Praia de Luz in the Algarve. The weather is cooler now, but warm enough to manage a couple of hours on the beach in the middle of the day. There are lots of Brits around and an English pub (The Bull) where we had lunch on the terrace (see photos). Fish and chips with mushy peas for me and a club sandwich for herself, first non-ethnic food for months and it was great. Close to Praia de Luz is the pretty town of Lagos which we visited and found a second hand [View Full Entry]

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We were recommended by a fellow camper to visit a little town called Ronda which is dramatically perched on a rugged hill. It was well worth the visit as the new bridge C.1754 (see picture)connects the town across a fissure in the rock on which Ronda sits. Just a few kilometres outside Ronda are the Pileta caves where we had a guided tour which was conducted by giving out some kerosene lamps to help light the way, this gave the event an atmosphere like something out of journey to the centre of the earth, as some of the caves were up [View Full Entry]

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So we didn’t spend much time on the south coast around Almeria, which disappointingly was basically a tomato plantation, the whole of the coast for miles from Capa de Gata to Malaga is covered in plastic tunnels to protect the crop, it is basically a huge commercial agricultural plantation. We started our journey to from Cabo de Gata to Granada by visiting one of the sets left from the Spaghetti Westerns that were filmed in the Sierra Nevada during the 60’s and 70’s. They have been kept in tip top condition with Saloon, bank, jail, boot hill etc. It was all [View Full Entry]

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Alan’s top ten lists - (this is what you do at night when you get bored) List one - things that have kept us awake at night in our Motorhome. Bear in mind it is hot (sorry to rub it in again) so we usually have all the windows open at night. 1) The church bells in Vers which rang every hour, with a half hourly chime for good measure, all through the night. Two sets which were about two minutes out of synch to each other. When we arrived and first heard them we looked at each other and said [View Full Entry]

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My Birthday blog - Luscious Lillie Well this year it was a special one as not only was Alan 50 in March but I was also 50, on October the 15th to be exact. And although, it was a biggy I wasnae afraid. I was looking forward to being away and having an untraditional birthday. We were staying south of Valencia about 30-40km north of Benidorm, in Javea, which was a lovely town beside the Med. The front was not overly built up, and there were no buildings over three storeys so it had retained it Spanish look and feel. Alan [View Full Entry]

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23-09-09 After Lake Caspe we went and stayed at a huge campsite in Villanova near Barcelona which was a retirement home with sunshine and in part God’s waiting room. To top it off a bear kept us awake all night (see Alan’s top ten list). Left there ASAP and headed north up the Costa Brava which in parts is Blackpool with sunshine and in some parts is really beautiful (see photos). Using the good old Lonely Planet as our guide we stayed at an inland campsite near Pals which was in its closing down phase which was highly entertaining as Liz [View Full Entry]

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Blog entry dated 18th September Luscious Lillie here, we are in a strange part of the world, for those that were in India last year it has that same end of the world feeling. As if everyone knows something you are unaware of and have taken refuge from ‘It’. We are about as far south as you can go in France around Perpignan, at the edge of the Roussillion region, which is basically a salt water marsh lying just behind the beach. It forms ‘Etanges’ which are brackish lakes behind the coastal dunes, and are often below sea level, it has [View Full Entry]

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Monday 14th September Just back from the beach which is 100 metres from our campsite near to Beziers, managed to get Liz to swim in the Mediterranean today and she said it was cold! Take it from someone who has been into the North Sea at Aberdeen, North Berwick, St.Andrews etc. (no childline in my young days), it was warm and wonderful. It is forecast to rain tomorrow which as I write at 7pm under clear skies and temp. around 24 degrees is hard to believe, but we shall see. Since our last blog we have moved on from Montignac and [View Full Entry]

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Luscious Lillie’s blog Well, we’ve excelled ourselves over the last few days, staying in Sarlat, which turned out to have an ancient medieval cité, restored as only the French do. We spent a pleasant day and evening there. However, we stopped over night at an Aire on the outskirts of town which turned out to be the noisiest ever, not a wink of sleep. Moved onto visit Les Eyziers which was marvellous set in the heart of the Dordogne countryside by the banks of the Valeezes, surrounded by pre-historical sites where nethandrical man once dwelt. Our Aire was a [View Full Entry]

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28-08-09 1st week in France and the future is looking brighter in shades! We sailed from Plymouth to Roscoff with a fine smooth crossing, getting into port at 10.00pm and we were the first vehicle off the ferry. Things quickly took a turn for the worse when 15 minutes later our sat nav. sent us into ever narrowing backstreets in search of a mythical overnight camper stop. A fairly high level of stress was endured by both our vehicles occupants; however Liz did a great job of getting me reversed in an incredibly tight spot (in the dark). She only [View Full Entry]

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