Blogs from Salamanca, Castile & León, Spain, Europe - page 2

10 décembre 2017 : Nous partons de Guadalupe à 09H30 et arrivons au parador de Ciudad Rodrigo à 13H00. C'est un parador magnifique. Nous visitons tout d'abord la cathédrale puis les alentours de la ville.... read more

An easy day yesterday, strolling along the riverbank in the morning before a BBQ steak lunch and relaxing read in the hazy sunshine in the afternoon. Today, guide book out and into Salamanca Old Town, in search of the elusive little frog which sits on the Universidad facade!! We saw the Catedral Vieja and Catedral Nueva, the old, built in the 12th-13th century and the new......16th-18th centuries......so not that new!!!! In the Plaza Mayor, a rather grand cycle race was about to begin and it seemed as if every competitor had brought their mothers, fathers,cousins, grandmothers and great aunts twice removed, to cheer them on their way!!!!! A good Sunday morning outing obviously! We passed the Casa de las Conchas, a mansion adorned with scallop shells which are a symbol of the Order of Santiago-these shells ... read more

In the last week in southern France, we have been feeling forty plus degree heat. With the sun holding a searing blowtorch to the landscape right up to sunset around 9:30 pm, and little or no shade in most of our campsites, we have been looking forward to a climb into the Pyrenees. Our route over the last few days has been from Pau in south-west France toward the city of Pamplona in north-west Spain. So as we began to ascend the relatively gentle western crossing of the Pyrenees, it was a welcome change to turn off the cabin air conditioning as ambient temperature dropped to a comfortable 25 or so degrees. Then I flicked the headlights on as fog bought visibility back to less than 50 meters. It’s good to take it slowly on these ... read more

Woolly says - I had started to feel like the Andrex puppy but way cuter of course as we spent our last week saying our goodbyes, I learnt that handing Jo a tissue seemed the best solution to her constant flooding and the only way of keeping my fur dry from the avalanche of tears. I wasn’t quite that bad but he does have a point! Woolly says – with everything packed I waved a regretful goodbye to my home and shovelled Jo onto the transfer before handing her yet more paper to mop her up as she quietly snivelled her way out of Alanya and onto the start of our new life. Having checked us in I felt rather pleased that my arrangements had gone according to plan and that we had arrived at the ... read more

zz Camping Regio has been here a while. In fact our neighbours visited here in their panel van many years ago and I think the place has not changed much over the years. The campground is part of the large 4* Hotel Regio and when we arrived we were directed to register at the hotel rather than at the camping reception which appeared to have closed for the season. The receptionist booked me in and told me to park up anywhere as there were few tourists. It is an ACSI site for which the cost to stay is 16 euros per night. We were issued with a tourist map of the city, a bus time table – the bus stops at the hotel once an hour and a menu for the hotel. Another one of these ... read more