A Life in the Slow Lane – Page 44 – Follow us as we travel in Basil the Motorhome around Europe

Hi, we’re Tim and Sarah. Tim was a solicitor and Sarah a National Health Service Manager. We’re in our early 60’s and have loved travelling throughout our lives. It has always been a dream that when we retired we would spend…

With the Snowbirds

Team Basil are in an environment with which they are totally unfamiliar – with the Snowbirds of Northern Europe. On Wednesday 10thwe fled Aranjuez and endeavoured to complete our transnavigation of Spain. Starting just south of Madrid we drove 270…

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One too many old towns

Yesterday, while we were waiting in our aire in Caceres for siesta to finish we had a slightly unsettling experience with a large Spanish motorhome trying to squeeze into a space next to enough that was clearly not big enough.…

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Trujillo – A little gem

Yesterday the day started with a stop at the Montfrague Nature Park visitor centre. It seems to have been built recently at great expense, at least partly with EU funding, but although it looks as if it is very informative,…

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Doggy Mayhem

Yesterday when we arrived at the campsite, we were given a limited number of pitches to chose from, because the campsite said they had a block booking. What they didn’t explain, and which became obvious not much later, was that…

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