We left you at Piñeres, a little mountain car park, where over the ridge the vultures and eagles soar. It was too good to leave. The clean air, crisp in the mornings, warm through the day. The near silent night. The comings and goings of day walkers, vans and pilgrims (there are plenty of pilgrim […]
Vultures and culture.
We left you last week in tiny St Vincent having toured the area around the wine capital of Haro. It had been festivals all the way. Time for a change of scenery. Being Sunday it was only right that we visited a few churches – talking about every one would be boring, although visiting them […]
6051. Pintxos y Rioja
Eight weeks since the last mini tour. So much has changed, yet everything stays the same. Now we are two. Our gorgeous fluffball companion of so many trips made her final Channel crossing on 1 July. Polly. We miss you every day. Plymouth. Leaving England via Plymouth makes everywhere else seem glamorous. We’re among the […]
As I was driving to St Ives…
The road from St Just to St Ives is one of the best. Just 13 miles. Yet it ranks up there with the great stretches of Scotland’s North Coast 500, the magnificent Norwegian drives, the Dolomites, whatever the summit is called where we took mum and sis that looked out across the whole south of […]
The Riesling and Schnitzel Tour.
2023. The Riesling and Schnitzel Tour. It seemed that there wouldn’t be time to write up this tour. Few days were without long drives, and those quiet days were busy in other ways. But here I am, sitting in the gardens of a Bohemian restaurant early in the afternoon, with a reservation at 6pm, and […]
Brittany. A short hop. A vast difference.
Vive la difference. It’s nearly two years since our wanderings ceased and we began a more normal life. We took jobs that our parents understood. We had an address, (albeit a caravan), we took our place on the voter’s role. Two years of itchy feet. Our Welsh tour, and this year’s tour of the north […]