Calatanazor to San Pablo de los Montes – Central Spain By 3.30pm this afternoon and driving past a ‘Camping’ sign. A hasty screech to a halt and back up to the entrance. But it looks abandoned. Not just from last summer, but for several years. What the hell, we are…
Christmas in Ixassou After opening our Christmas gifts, we headed down to breakfast in the hotel. Today was fun, but hardly a conventional Christmas. We had a lovely WhatsApp catch up with my son Tim and then ventured out to set about cleaning Poki, inside and out. It was very…
Our last two nights have been in Ibis hotels. The first a ‘shoe box’ in Niort, but totally adequate. Last night’s Bordeaux room was more spacious. Driving has mainly been on motorways in atrocious weather. TomTom has us avoiding toll booths. It doesn’t stop us enjoying the roads but avoiding…
Underway at last Well at last we are back on the road. Onwards and upwards, or in our case, onwards and southwards. Leaving at 0700 it was still pitch dark. I don’t like leaving in the dark as it is harder to check if everything has been left in order.…
Following on from the last blog entry ;- Late in the afternoon Thursday we got a message, Poki’s ready to collect. It’s been a roller coaster ride of emotions trying to source information and new parts for her. John, the Gumtree owner, suggested we should take a spare potentiometer (electronic…
Bad weather Dennis asked in his last blog, “What could go wrong”. Perhaps I should start by asking, what could go right? Contending with snow was not something that had occurred to us in our advanced planning. On Sunday we went, in my aged Mini Cooper, Poki being out of…
With 6 days till departure, what could go wrong? After arriving back to the UK it’s full steam ahead to get ready for a 15th December departure. We received Poki back from Gumtree with the Maxtrax (sand/mud recovery planks) nicely fitted to the roof-rack, and a solid 6mm aluminium steering…
Stopover in San Francisco I had forgotten how grey and miserable the UK can be in November. We returned here on 23rd, after 3 lovely days in Novato, just outside of San Francisco. It’s always good to break the long journey from New Zealand. We are very fortunate to have…