Blogs from Spain, Europe - page 6

On Saturday we left Galicia to drive 212 kilometres east into Asturias. It was three hours of beautiful scenery, first mountains and then the coast of the Bay of Biscay. Our campsite is a few kilometres east of the old historic fishing port of Cudillero and the scenery is sensational. We thought it didn´t get any better than Galicia until we walked out of the campsite a few hundred metres down a winding country road and were met by a view that took our breath away; a series of sandy bays and sheer cliffs stretching into the distance and the waters of the Bay of Biscay at their calmest, benign and blue. Our photos do not do it justice because the light wasn´t particularly good and there was quite a damp mist rolling in from the ... read more

Team trip guided by robin headed to Seville, but boys team ripped by male taxi driver who took long way to tram station, and 15 euro lighter we eventually arrived into Seville central on a fabulous Light train and hit the nearest coffee bar so mr goode could overcome his abstinence of pure cafe solo, refreshed we started the seville tour and hit tapas bars and sights in wonderful sunshine Lunch was superb with robin guiding us through the streets of London, no that's a song the ken does Mean Seville we went over the bridge with padlocks from couples who etched them, Few more beers we then had some little pussies local delicacy and more tapas. Returning to the station it was suddenly meriender time, that's sevillian for cake and coffee time at about 5pm, ... read more

Its been two long days since our last confession, ooops sorry I mean blog, and we've covered some ground in that time. So lets do a short recap. Friday, our last day in beautiful Barcelona, we had a morning of shopping then headed to our pickup location for a half day journey to meet the Monks of Monserrat. Arriving there we were greeted with a confused face and a "Qué, no Monserrat tour today". Quickly checking the emails we realised we are on the wrong side of the city and have to leg it pronto. Leelee in thongs and making some dubious direction calls slowed us up a bit and we arrived ten minutes late which was ten minutes too late apparently! One minute tour.... Nek Minnit no tour! Settled on a Siesta and a sensational ... read more

Team went into palomares go for a beer and tapas DC took torch as some roads had no pavements Neil however was a causality of the ditch and it was nothing to do with the beers We met Marie Carmen for breakfast but she had to run off to her exhibition stand in Seville maybe catch up later. Today Team returned to palomares locally with an early walk and then back in the scorchio heat Plan to venture into Seville tonight for a tapas bar sorty and maybe another one tomoz as its bank holiday here in Spain, again sun forecast maybe 28 degs Shock and horror robin has upgraded ken to wi fi on his mobile and also downloaded what's app So if you have what's app say hello to ken please... read more

Left guardamar early to cash points and hit the mountains and scenery stunning Temp,climbing to 20 degs we made good progress and stopped for coffee break at caravaca Dishing up crispy €50 euro notes to the kitty Truck stop,with nice lady serving helped by uncle festa who spoke English Police also at stop,having coffee break Left but rejoined carriageway eastwards so had to double back to continue west on climbing upto 1000 metres upwards Neil,and I saw flashing cars headlights and slowed but GOode missed this and was hauled in by West Murcia cops and relived of the kitty €150 Lucky no exhaust or helmet checks may have seen him introduced to the Spanish inquisition Team agreed to fund the fine and now face with gruel for dinner to night as budget for dinner depleted. Lunch ... read more

Today I went to San Sebastian and walked around the historic old section. I saw a Cathedral that is hundreds of years old, the beach at San Sebastian is big and beautiful with cool little patterns on the sand. There is an antique merry go round which I went on. Hondarribia is where I am staying and there is an old fort here a couple of blocks away. The fort is now housing people , restaurants, shops. The road is made of stones. We saw a big building with canon and bullet holes in it from a past war. "the Basque won" Everyone here is wonderful and nice to me. This town has a social hour in the evenings before dinner and entire families come out to the plaza (this is where our flat is located) ... read more