New Blog.
Well we are back in the UK and it's freezing raining with snow forecast.. Eh!..
We had a great time in France thanks to Bill and Bonny letting us leave the car and trailer at their place, which meant we could let the Tom Tom loose to take us down the small back roads through France, enabling us to see all the little villages that are tucked away, and obscure out of the way Aires to stay on instead of boring motorways we use when towing the trailer on the back of the van..
We spent most of the time in the (excuse the spelling) Dordogne? area, it was very good and picturesque with lots of things to see and places to visit, and all it took was a visit to the local tourist office wherever we ended up at, we collected some brochures of interest around the particular area we were at, then off on another adventure..
I think what we will do is tot up how much the 4 months have cost us in fuel, tolls, gas and camp site fees.. Cost of food will not feature as this is a cost we have where ever we are. I will let Sandra work that one out!..
I have taken quite a few photos of where we visited but they are on the lap top, when I have a bit of time I will sort some out and put them on the blog..
Ok here's to the next trip which might be to the Farnes in Northumberland, or back to France to Help Bill dig his lake deeper....
Tuesday, 3 April 2012
Saturday, 3 March 2012
New Blog..
We have left Bill and
Bonny's place and have moved on to “Future Scope” near Limoges,
we will spend a night here on their Aire and will have a look round
tomorrow Sunday, it is open 19 am till 20.30 so it will be a long
day.
We will then go down to
the Dordogne for a couple of weeks touring round, as we have left the
trailer and car at Bills to collect the week before we set off to the
UK..
Bill & Bonny's
pad..
Thursday, 1 March 2012
New Blog......
Well we have left
Mequinenza and Spain for the luxury of Bill and Bonny's pad in
France, we have been here two days and have the luxury of sleeping in
a proper bed with en-suite facility's.
It was made obvious in
Mequinenza we were not wanted when the Guardia Civil civil threw us
out of our pitch and told us to vamoose!... We sent a text to Bill
and he just laughed and said come down to our place in France, so we
have..
We will be on our way
on Saturday morning but we will leave the car and trailer at Bills
place so we can explore France more easily as we still have a month
until we come home, so it will be good to have a look round, and
Bills place is still not too far from Dunkirk and the ferry about a
ten hour drive..
We are not to bothered
about leaving Mequinenza as I have two PB's with the big carp and
this catfish!!!!....
Monday, 27 February 2012
New Blog.
Well we moved on. We
went further North to N.V.Cerveisa at the top of Portugal on the
Portuguese Spanish border to visit “Coto Chris” off Yorkshire
Divers forum..
We arrived on the 15th
of Feb at about 7 pm.. I t was a very nice ride up but the tolls were
very expensive. We had a brilliant time on our stay, the weather was
perfect, the town was perfect and to top it all Chris and his family
were the most welcoming and easy going folk and made our stay one we
will always remember and I hope we can welcome them to the UK as
Sandra and I feel we have known them always....
Monday the 20th
Feb we set off again for Spain and had a good two day trip with one
stop off for the night in the mountains, all was well but for one
thing the silly buggers who do the Spanish road works had cut a slot
in the road surface, maybe to put a cable across the road but just
left it open the full width of the road, there was just a sign for
road works but nothing else!. We hit it with a bang, the upshot
being the Carver water heater shook itself to bits and started
leaking water all over the place, the carpet was wet through, I
didn't notice it until I stopped for some fuel and found water
streaming down the outside of the van. A jar of coffee in the
cupboard spilled its contents all over and the car door on the
trailer popped open so you can tell the force of it all..
Tuesday 21st
Feb we arrived in Mequinenza and tried to get onto the camp site
along with Bill and Bonny, it was not very good so we made a quick
exit and came down to our usual spot on the lay by under the castle
which is on top of a large hill just behind us.. Bill and Bonny left
the camp site and came down to park with us and stayed until Friday
when they left to get back to France to their home there, they say
they will be going back to the UK at the beginning of march as they
have to sort out the car tax and stuff!..
I have fished every day
but have only managed one fish so far a carp of 24lbs 7 oz which is
one more fish than anybody else has managed. There was a couple of
English lads who called round asking if I had caught anything as they
hadn't had a bite all the time they had been in Mequinenza, and guess
what Keith comes from Hull and the other Paul lived in Aldbrough for
a few years, they both fish the lakes at home, small world..
The weather at the
moment is brilliant and very hot, but today Sunday the 26th
of Feb it is windy and if it stays like this we will not be able to
put up the dish for Sky.. I have been watching the weather forecasts
for home and it seems to be warming up nicely for our return at the
end of March..
Steve can you go over
the caravan before we get home and turn on the water and check there
is nothing amiss? .. You can put the heating on by turning the
thermostat in our bedroom on the end wall to the “on” position
and check the boiler is set to heating and hot water and the small
lever on the clock is set to constant, if everything is OK then put
the lever on the clock to timed and everything should be OK for our
return.. I do not know if the gas bottle outside is still full but if
not there should be two full bottles. You can turn off the empty one
and turn on the next bottle and switch over the outside valve for the
other bottle that is connected..
We are going into
Fragga tomorrow to the Vodafone shop to get some phone credit on our
Spanish sim card, so you will have to use the Spanish number again
instead of the Portuguese one, I will also get a Spanish dongle so I
can get on the internet as the free signal in the town is too iffy
and keeps coming and going, cutting out at every opportunity...
Thursday, 16 February 2012
Hi.
We arrived safely here in NV Cerveira and what a beautiful place it is, had a walk round this morning down by the river and then round the old town.. We only had one interesting episode when I took the wrong turn in Porto which is a big city, and you guessed I chose the rush hour traffic to do it in!.. Anyway the nice Lady on the Tom Tom took charge and extracted us from it all phew!..
Some big hills round this part, one entailed first gear for about 2 miles, but the van coped well better than me I was glad when it leveled out enough to put it into second gear...
I will take some picture and post them later, I can't be bothered at the moment as we are both chilling out as the sun is very warm and we are crashed out in the van with the radio on...
We arrived safely here in NV Cerveira and what a beautiful place it is, had a walk round this morning down by the river and then round the old town.. We only had one interesting episode when I took the wrong turn in Porto which is a big city, and you guessed I chose the rush hour traffic to do it in!.. Anyway the nice Lady on the Tom Tom took charge and extracted us from it all phew!..
Some big hills round this part, one entailed first gear for about 2 miles, but the van coped well better than me I was glad when it leveled out enough to put it into second gear...
I will take some picture and post them later, I can't be bothered at the moment as we are both chilling out as the sun is very warm and we are crashed out in the van with the radio on...
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