It only seems a week or so ago that we were complaining about how full the aires in Spain were, despite it being well outside of school holidays. Now the opposite has occurred. We appear to be the only motorhome…
Into the Borderlands
It always gives me a perverse sense of national pride to see a Brit abroad behaving in an archetypical eccentric fashion. Parked beside us at Camping Lamego were an elderly English couple, with whom we got on very well. This…
Stairway to Heaven
Yes, today Sarah, the dogs and I first descended and then climbed the closest thing we are ever going to see to a stairway to heaven. That may be a bit unfair of me to make assumptions about the dogs’…
The Douro Valley
Yesterday as the heat dissipated a little, we took the relatively short walk into Guimaraes. Guimaraes’ fame is based upon it having been Portugal’s first capital when its first King Dom Alfonso Henriques based his court here. Its pre-eminence only…