Monday, September 7th, 2009
Back to the daily grind! We arrived back following a 33-hour ferry from Santurtzi, Bilbao to Portsmouth in the very early hours of Thursday morning and were faced with getting the children back to school the same day as well as facing a mountain of bills and post on our doorstep.
Our route back brought us [...]
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
We are all suffering from icky bellies and spending much time on the loo today. We reckon a hangover from Moroccan visit. Chilling for a little while in Alicante as Jess and AJ need to let off some steam and have met some new friends. Hence a quick chance to update again.
Heading for Tarragona later [...]
Monday, August 24th, 2009
Saturday, the last official stop point outward of our trip, was a day for traditional Henna tattooes. We got fleeced as Anne didn´t agree the price beforehand - make sure you always agree the price before accepting to buy anything in Morocco!!! - but we didn´t mind so much as we realise that most individuals [...]
Saturday, August 22nd, 2009
Yesterday was a day for extreme sports! If you are ever in Asilah, why not try a white knuckle ride “off road” on a traditional horse and cart. We had very sore bottoms after deciding to take a ride to a more remote beach about 40 mins - 1 hour away (by cart!), called Playa [...]
Thursday, August 20th, 2009
After Valencia, we crawled along the coast to San Pedro along the Costa Blanca. It is easy to see why so many people choose to live or have their second homes there. It is a very tranquil area with beautiful scenery, plenty of sun plus, beach after blissful beach of all shapes and sizes. We [...]
Friday, August 14th, 2009
Things are looking up! We got out repair done today by British Car in Valencia - fuel pump (we had suspected) and the connecter faulty. Approx 370 Euros. Want to say that British Car fantastic - really great bunch of guys and could read our minds about our desparation to get back on the road quickly. Not [...]
Thursday, August 13th, 2009
We finally made it to Spain and are currently in El Puig, Valencia where we arrived late this evening. We have been unable to gain internet access since last writing.
We have suffered several shakedown ‘pains’ it seems or have just been very unlucky. To summarise as follows:
Land Rover breakdown on day 1 of our trip which [...]
Thursday, July 30th, 2009
We have had to make lots of changes to our planned itinerary to finally sort our vehicle out. We were advised that our vehicle would be ready Friday last week so left Sonzay for the long drive back to Amiens. Before we left we made sure to make the most of our stay in the [...]
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009
Click this 1-10-diary to see diary.
Bonjour from Sonzay! Again, we are keeping a diary but do not seem to be able to upload it. The best we can do is to try to add as a text (.txt) file - see link above - but we do not seem to be able to do anything else. Jessica’s diary is [...]
Thursday, July 16th, 2009
Where do we start?
We left in a rush without being able to provide any pre-trip or prepared vehicle updates. We missed our 10am ferry but managed to get a later sailing at 1pm on Monday 13th July. Then only just 350 miles into our journey (including mileage from Cambridgeshire to Dover ferry port), our newly and expensively fully [...]
