Monthly Archives: October 2018

    Monday 15th October 2018 The news on Kev’s car wasn’t good so it was agreed that we should carry on our journey and meet up as soon as their car was mended. The aim was to rendezvous in … Continue reading →

  A bit of a windy night……….. When I bought these wind breaks I thought the idea was to break the wind (no not like that!) not break in the wind! Actually they had just fallen down in the overnight … Continue reading →

Wednesday 10th October 2018 Today’s ride out took us to Ponte de Lima. Kev drove the 35minutes that it took us in his recently acquired hire car.  He soon got to grips with the awesome power of the Vauxhall Corsa, … Continue reading →

  I mentioned in an earlier blog that K&V’s car had broken down and that they would join us in Porto as soon as it was fixed.  Well, this breakdown was turning out to be a lot  more of a … Continue reading →

Monday 8th October 2018 After a rather lazy start to the day, a little bit of novel reading, catching up with the news on the BBC  (when will this Brexit thing ever get sorted?) and seeing what is going on … Continue reading →

I always wake early in the mornings, I suppose this goes back to me having to get to the  shop early to prepare for an early opening.  I always used to go for a swim on the way to work … Continue reading →

Thursday 4th October 2018 Whilst we waited for news on K&Vs car, we thought we might as well make the most of our time and visit Portugal’s 2nd largest city Porto. A 30 minute drive from our campsite and we … Continue reading →

Tuesday 2nd October 2018 About 20k South of Baiona is a small fishing village called A Guarda.  We visited there for a little top-up of shopping, a quick stroll and some lunch. The shopping was unexciting, the stroll was very … Continue reading →

Now where did they get that idea from? Great minds think alike! We met this van along with its Welsh owners (sorry I have forgotten their names!) at the FANTASTIC O Muiño campsite………….. This site is in a really lovely … Continue reading →

Thursday 27th September The campsite at Santiago de Compostela was on the side of very steep hill in the middle of a busy town. You really have to trust your Sat-Nav on occasions such as this, because when the road … Continue reading →