Blogs from Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain, Europe

11 décembre 2017 : Nous quittons Ciudad Rodrigo à 9H00et arrivons à Jarandilla de le Vera à 12H30. Nous nous installons dans l'hôtel (parador) et visitons la ville et le château. Le repas est de 14H45 à 16H15... read more

Installés dans un camping très confortable, nous décidons de rester ici deux nuits car un bus nous facilite la vie en nous menant en ville... Quand je parle d'un camping sympa c'est aussi parce que c'est du jamais vu pour nous dans tous les campings que nous connaissons... Chaque parcelle possède son petit coin privé pour un brin de toilette ! : lavabo, douche et toilette... un tuyau d'arrosage particulier à la parcelle également, ce qui nous a permis de faire un petit shampoing à Pollux... Nous avons donc bien travaillé ce mercredi, puisque visite de la ville de Caceres, déjeuner typique du pays vers 14h et retour au camping pour ce grand nettoyage... Pour apprendre plus sur la ville, visitez ce lien : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A1ceres_(Espagne) Au petit matin de la deuxième nuit, je piège un joli ... read more

Cacares is beloved of the Brits who use it as a staging post to somewhere else whether that is overwintering in the Algarve or overwintering in the Costas. We had read much about it in Motorhome forums and thought that we would give it a go. It was time to switch the clock back to European Team as we re-entered Spain from Portugal. Our site for the night was to be Camping Caceres which is an affiliated site to our own Caravan Club which meant it would be full of Brits and would conform to British standards. This meant decent sized pitches and lots of facilities and it was an ACSI site so cost 16 euros per night. Reception friendly and efficient, a small supermarket with very little in it, a huge swimming pool, a bar ... read more

BLOG 4 Tuesday 8 May – Halleluiah, we have sun!! We left you last time earlier today, in overcast skies, at a McDonalds in Caceres trying to Skype Tom (with no luck). Whilst one of us dealt with computer matters the other did a big shop at Carrfour (bless him!) We then drove for just under an hour, along a mostly motorway road with reasonable but very flat landscape to Trujillo. Once again you could see it in the distance – a magnificent walled castle town atop a big hill. This time it REALLY lived up to expectations – the best place we’ve been to so far.....AND by the time we got there the sun was well and Trujillo out – his vest and both coats were abandoned and having parked up near the town, we ... read more

For my last weekend in Spain, my Spanish friend Claudia invited me to her pueblo in Eljas. My first thought was “YES! I have achieved total integration! I have succeeded in befriending the locals!” Then my excitement quickly turned to nerves as I contemplated a weekend away where I would have to speak only Spanish. But that’s what I came to Spain for right? I ought to know enough by now! And as final exams were fast approaching, I decided to treat this opportunity as the last, real world test of how much Spanish I’d learned abroad. Chupao. (Piece of cake). We left Salamanca on Friday afternoon and headed towards a tiny village in rural Extremadura, a region close to Portugal. It was only a two hour drive by car, and Claudia and I talked about ... read more