Dear Bo & Dud, What a surprise the Costa Blanca has been to us - a few days in Benidorm has turned into a couple of weeks, which in turn, is probably going to become a month! Our situation is glorious - we are almost in a basin, surrounded by the glorious Serra de Aitana. The camp site is much bigger than our usual choice, the facilities are superb and the parcela is hedge marked, huge and fully serviced. There are two pools (cool water) and I can usually find some time during the day when I can swim alone - [View Full Entry]

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Ola Bo & Dud, I forgot to tell you about something strange that I spotted en route to Fortuna. We left the motorway just after Murcia and immediately the scenery changed from being urbanized to rural countryside. Standing in the middle of nowhere was a young woman - low top and short skirt revealing more than enough of her body, and with knee high, black high heeled boots. As I was supposed to be helping look for camp site signs, I only caught a glimpse, but it struck me as being rather unusual. I suggested to Howard that this might be [View Full Entry]

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Ola Bo & Dud Semana Santa - my Spanglish is coming along nicely!! We decided that we would have a quiet Easter - not too much excitement and certainly no chocolate, the eating and drinking are far outweighing the exercise at the moment. The Spanish holiday starts Thursday so the camp site was filling up for most of the day. Good Friday and the place was buzzing so we decided to have an outing - we got 3 kilometres! Fortuna is our nearest town, and as we approached we could see the road ahead through town was closed - 2 Firemen [View Full Entry]

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Ola Bo & Dud, I never thought that we would be sad that winter is over. As we know from experience it is difficult to get any sort of travel insurance for more than 6/8 months at a time (did you know that Howard and I are on a ‘gap’ year and we have a policy that is intended to cover students), so Torre del Mar is emptying of the pensionistas heading back to the UK. It took us the best part of a week to prepare for departure. We’ve never had the caravan and awning in one place for such [View Full Entry]

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Ola Bo & Dud, ‘The time has come the Walrus said to speak of many things’ and we’ve been doing a bit of debating between ourselves about moving on. There is an air of change in Torre del Mar - the paseo has a workforce of its own, completing a new children’s playground, cleaning and sweeping the beach, trimming the trees and flower beds. The chiringuitos (open air bars) are being given a fresh coat of paint and restocked, the sun beds and umbrella’s are coming out of storage - it’s all looking completely different. The camp site is also changing [View Full Entry]

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Ola Bo & Dud, We’ve been experiencing a bit of weather here of late - strong winds and rain. Yesterday was just like being in the UK drizzle all day, we only ventured out for a few bits from the supermarket. It’s been a good time for doing a bit of a spring clean of the caravan. Under the bed has become our ‘loft’ and we’ve been storing all sorts under there since we arrived here at the beginning of November, so we’ve had everything out and a wipe around with a cloth and a bucket of hot soapy water. Likewise [View Full Entry]

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Dear Bo & Dud, Where the time has gone since you returned home I have no idea. We have been so lucky with the weather; it has been glorious with sunshine all day, every day. We have been told that this is very unusual and that we are experiencing an extraordinarily good winter. This morning we needed to go out and ‘do’ a big shop, all the heavy and bulky stuff. It’s been so nice to shop locally and even the girl in Antonio’s (the greengrocers) has started to smile despite the fact that I only spend a few Euros at [View Full Entry]

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Dear Bo & Dud, How wonderful it was to have you come to visit over the New Year. I hope that you enjoyed your stay with us as much as we enjoyed you being here. Getting here on New Year’s Eve was brilliant and I’m pleased that you were able to join in the festivities and the Spanish traditions. The red underwear is worn to bring good luck - I hope that our fellow campers will appreciate some of the luck Dud hoped to share with them when he exposed his Calvin Kline’s to all! Likewise the tradition of eating 12 [View Full Entry]

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Ola Bo & Dud, Thank you so much for forwarding our Tax Disc - it has arrived safely. What a time we’ve had without it. In France and Portugal not having a tax disc in date does not seem to be too much of a problem; we thought that the same applied to Spain - how many times have I said to you “never make assumptions”? We never gave it a second thought knowing that the new Tax Disc was bought paid for and in your safe keeping awaiting your visit in January. That was until Pete got pulled over at [View Full Entry]

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Camping Torre del Mar Parcela 103 Paseo Maritimo Torre Del Mar MALAGA Espana C.P 29740 Ola Bo & Dud, Welcome back after your holiday in the Maldives - I hope to be receiving an email from you complete with photographs and a day by day diary. We arrived in Torre del Mar on Sunday 4th - we’d been looking forward to this day for some time. You will remember that we had a fly away holiday in January to have a look around sites in the area and chose this one because it ticked so many boxes. However, sometimes (or [View Full Entry]

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