11th April Breakfast, washing then wifi time. I went to see the lady on reception about the police, no joy & we have to ring the police station where the prosecution will be launched. No doubt on the day, we’ll ring & no-one will have a scooby doo why we’re ringing. I hoping that come the day the campsite will let us use their phone & one of them can speak English & help translate. Then David arrived & he drove us into Lagos. He has a small IQ... as in Toyota IQ, a super little car. Parked up & had a leisurely wander through the town & went for a coffee outside a restaurant overlooking the bay & 6km of sandy beach. Overall, we summarised our lives since we last saw each other whilst David ... read more

9th April Another beautiful day. A lazy start, picked up the bread from the bar & now see with WiFi that US, post Syria, has now sent warships to the Korean peninsula. Must buy some shares in the company that manufactures Tomahawk missiles. It appears this POTUS doesn’t mess about. Interesting how China said it understood the raid on Syria.. methinks China wants the US to hit N Korean bunkers to save them the trouble, keep their hands clean but keep it as a buffer zone. We’ll never know of course. The S. China Sea issue soon... Yesterday Cathy burnt her feet in the sun, so we decided to stay on site & chill, read & enjoy the day in the warm. But we saw & heard pigeons, ring doves, cuckoos, blackbirds, woodpeckers, bee eaters to ... read more

Up early, left the table & chairs out & off. 1 hour later the Dyson said we have arrived – next to field outside Santiago, jolly good. Idea – get phone, switch data roaming on, try Google maps....eta voila, sorted. We were only a few kilometers away. Go into the hospital, find the office location on the ground floor, go to reception first to make sure; no, he took us outside, gestured round the building. Off we go, into an other office round the back. No, she took us outside & pointed to where it was. Next to the mortuary, complete with hearse & coffin outside. Into office to be told that there are no doctors in the morning, he starts at 3pm, very sorry. Oh Joy. So, we were going to go back home & ... read more

5th April We woke up to a heavy dew & fog which hadn’t been forecast so we had a lie in whilst I wrote up this rubbish. It cleared up by midday so after some hand-washing we decided to walk into town, about 2 miles away. Turns out that it was a bad decision; we had only walked 100 yards from the campsite when 2 big dogs ran out from a garden, one of which bit Cathy on the fleshy part of her hip. Trying to defend ourselves, the same dog bit me too on the hip. Very, very frightening & it could have been so much worse. We eventually & thankfully got away, very, very shaken. A member of staff called the police & an ambulance. After a brief statement as we asked to press ... read more

3rd April Woke up to a beautiful morning. The hippies left soon after we stepped out & we’re the only foreigners here. When we planned the trip we thought we would use non toll roads in Portugal as we had read that they can be expensive for a motorhome but Cathy has bottled it as, obviously, there are more instructions to understand ie get wrong. So, after a quick bit of web searching we found that from the available options we needed a prepayment card as we were nowhere near a place where we could get anything else. So, off on the bikes after lunch to the post office or CTT. On the way, there were loads of decent sized fish in the tidal river, possibly sea bass, close to the edge / rocks below the ... read more