Hi.

Well we have been away for a few weeks now starting mid December 2014, we had a good sail over Dover Calais a very smooth crossing just missing the big winds forecast for the following day...

Then a leisurely drive down to Bill and Bonny's place in Confluence France where we stayed a few days before traveling down in convoy to Bonterra Park http://bonterrapark.com/en Benicassim where we are at the moment, we will be here until the end of January where we will travel down to our old stamping ground of Markadia Portugal http://youtu.be/BgmjwTrjQz0 where will stay fishing until the first week in March 2015...

So for Bonterra Park a change for us actually going on a camp site other than Markadia, it is  well set out and all the facilities apart from black water dump are actually on your pitch which makes it easy.. There is wifi at 18 Euros a month with a decent signal allowing us to stream full movies on U Tube, and we can still get some English stations on the satellite on the van, which also keeps us in the loop as far as news and the weather at home is concerned.. Have rang Norman a couple of times to see what is happening and if he has been fishing which is more than I have as there is only the Med Sea to fish in, which is not for me..

The weather since we arrived in Spain has been glorious and Sandra and I have started getting a tan, it has been in the low 20's most of the days with wall to wall sunshine, except today Monday 19th Jan where it has clouded over and is raining a bit, the weather forecast says it will be back to wall to wall sunshine again come this Thursday..

We have had a few trips out, on the scooter and Bill hired a car for a week and took us out in that... In Benacasim this week it is their festival with all sorts of stuff going on including fire bulls where they tie fireworks to the bulls horns, I will be giving that a miss!.. We went to a park in Orraposa? or some spelling like that, where there were loads of big carp swimming about, and to the castle where El Cid with Charlton Heston was filmed, where he was charging down the beach dead tied to his horse..

taken quite a few photos when I can figure out how to load them on the computer from our new camera, when I do I will post some..

ray.