Category: Natural Parks
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Weeks 32-35: Sweden
Highlights: Beautiful and interesting landscapes, lovely mild weather this far north, top-notch bouldering, interesting cultural quirks, some surprisingly excellent fast food, and great facitilies and resources for campervan-life. Lowlights: Miles and miles of flat land, forest and lakes make for ideal mosquito conditions in June. Our journey north from the UK We left on the…
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Week 24/25: Slovenia
Highlights – wine, wine and more wine, stunning countryside and opportunities for outdoor pursuits, interesting geological features (karsts and related), small but perfectly formed Ljubljana Lowlights – we didn’t have enough time to explore this beautiful country East Slovenia – Wine, walk and bike ride around Maribor From Croatia we drove north to the northeast…
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Week 22/23: Croatia
Highlights: Beautiful and interesting towns, good food and some appealing countryside and national parks, particularly if you like waterfalls. Also great bathrooms. Lowlights: The weather was unseasonably cold and windy, locals kept assuring us it was more like January than April. And, both James and Aileen were sick on separate occasions. Split Our ferry from…
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Week 17/18: Avoiding the rain in Italy
In this blog post we do our best to avoid rain and manage to visit the classic Tuscan cities, and get a taste of Marche, Abruzzo, Puglia and Calabria in the process. Our “Italy plan” was to take a ferry from the north west coast of Italy to Sicily, and then work our way back…
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Week 15/16: Porto, Douro Valley, Peneda-Gerês, Santiago de Compostela and a looooong drive to Italy
Porto We had planned to head west from Sintra, on our journey back through Spain, but when we checked the weather forecast, Porto was enjoying equally good weather, so we headed north instead. We found a dog friendly hotel, the Catalonia Porto, with a good parking lot nearby and spent 2 days exploring the city.…
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Week 11: Córdoba, Sevilla and Costa de la Luz
This week we explored 2 more of Andalucia’s fascinating cities before unwinding in beautiful and seemingly unspoilt Costa de la Luz. Cordoba – Mezquita-Catedral, the Medieval city and snacking After seeing the majestic Alhambra in Granada, we were curious to see the Mezquita-Catedral de Córdoba, which had been described to us as a “cathedral built…
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Week 10: Granada, Malaga and El Chorro
Visiting Granada and the Alhambra with a Campervan and a Dog We finally made it to Granada. After several failed attempts last week at parking at Areas de Caravanas near Granada, we decided to change tack and just drive and park in Granada. We usually find driving into and parking in a city with a…
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Week 9: Sierra Nevada
For the first week of 2023 we headed to Spain’s highest mountain range – the Sierra Nevada, James did some epic road cycling, we had to adjust to several failed plans, and spent some time chilling on the south coast. Road cycling in the Sierra Nevada We’ve watched television coverage of the Vuelta and have…
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Week 7/8: Festive double edition
Happy New Year! We hope you had a wonderful holiday season and thank you for following us on our journey. We experienced our first vanlife Christmas and New Year, and whilst it was a “different” or “new” experience, frankly the last two Christmas holidays were “different” too so perhaps that’s the new normal 🙂. 2020…
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Week 6: Catalunya
A change of plan We have to admit, we never planned to explore the east coast of Spain. Without knowing too much about it, we had a vague idea of coastal beach areas, and the big cities Barcelona and Valencia which we’d visited before. Our loose Spain “plan” was to visit the mountainous north –…
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