We set off from Capbreton, aiming to stay at an aire on the Gironde, but diverted to Camping Beau Soleil in Bordeaux when the windscreens wipers (essuie-glaces as I now know them to be) packed in, and we needed a…
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Bordeaux….Les Girondins
Tagged with: Beau Soleil, Bordeaux, charlotte corday, Corday, Garonne, Marat, place de la victoire, Robespierre
Posted in 2012 Autumn
Posted in 2012 Autumn
Capbreton
Saturday 17th November. We set off early (ish) from the Hendaye aire and had breakfast and a walk on this cliff top about 5 miles up the road. It is a leisurely drive of about 30 miles then, through Biarritz,…
Colin’s Blog – In the Doghouse
I have been a bit poorly, I have had a bad tummy and was feeling very sorry for myself. I was lying on my back with my feet in the air doing my best to look ‘hangdog’, when I heard…
Francia
Friday 16th November. We drove from Navarete via Pamplona, to Hendaye Plage, a small French coastal town just over the border from Spain. It was another stunning journey, through gorges lined with golden trees. We had lunch near this wood,…
Aranjuez to Navarrete
C’mon guys….only one entrant for the statue caption competition so far (it was a good entry ….and is in the running for the prize….a bottle of genuine Spanish Cava…)…get your thinking caps on. Today we drove 364 km North to…
Aranjuez
Aranjuez is 50 km South of Madrid, and previously the spring retreat for the Spanish royal family. We arrived here yesterday November 13th (after a couple of supermarket stops to invest in some christmas cava), and set out for a…
Snow.
We are in Camping Las Lomas, a site about 15 km East of Granada, in the Sierra Nevada, at just over 1000 metres. It rained at our level last night (Jim will be pleased to hear), and we have snow…
The Alhambra
Thursday 8th November. We left Cabo de Gata after a great couple of weeks, and having been made really welcome by the longer term residents at the campsite. We headed North for Granada and parked up in the Alhambra car…
Posted in 2012 Autumn
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
Isn’t Spanish difficult? We went in to this shop (tienda, f.) hoping to buy some ferrets and it turns out to be an ironmongers! Those of a scientific bent may be able to see the clue in the name. We…
Tagged with: castillo de san ramón, cortijo del fraile, la batería, roalquilar
Posted in 2012 Autumn
Posted in 2012 Autumn
Playa de Los Muertos
Monday November 5th. This is Playa de Los Muertos, between Agua Amarga and Las Carboneras, about 20 km East of where we are staying. The name means, I think, the Beach of the Dead. Maybe that was why it was…
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