For all maps use the following colour key to identify which month we visited each location within each trip:
Finally heading off to Europe again after the pandemic, but due to the 90 day limit of visiting Europe post Brexit, we took the first couple of weeks in the UK visiting places in southern England. After taking the ferry direct to Spain we spent Christmas and New Year at Jackie's dad's on Costa Blanca and toured for the rest of the time. See where we went, what we saw, how we did it and where we stayed by clicking on the title above
Trip 11 - 16th April to 28th May 2021 - East and North England
Our first trip out after the initial easing of restrictions in England to take in some lovely parts of England that we'd never seen. The Norfolk Broads, The Wash, Lincolnshire's highest peak (!), Spurn Head, the North Yorkshire Moors, Malham Cove and Ingleborough. See where we went, what we saw, how we did it and where we stayed by clicking on the title above
Trip 10 - 3rd to 13th November 2020 - A mini tour of half of Scotlands NC500
Trip 9 - 4th October to 15th December 2019 - Destinations: France, Germany & Belgium
This trip is summarised on a separate page, so click on the title above (or on this link: 'trip-9') to open the page on a separate tab. Below is a map showing our route, click on any location icon for information, photos and links to blog entries relating to it, or the square in the top left of the map for a list of all stops:
Trip 8: 2nd October 2018 to 19th April 2019 - Destinations: France, Spain and Portugal
Description:
We started this trip with a very vague plan to travel from England through France and Spain until sometime between May and the end of June 2019, but ended up returning home on 19th April as tenants in one of our houses were vacating and a complete refurbishment was required. We agreed to a housesit in Brittany for two weeks from 11th to 27th October, so spent the first 9 days touring Norther France and Normandy on a slow trip from the port of Calais.
After travelling down the west coast of France, then going inland a little then south to the Dordogne, we took a second housesit for a couple of weeks. we carried on south the west to enter Spain near San Sebastian, went across through Bilbao, then towards Santadander where we turned south to travel through Burgos, Valladolid, Salamanca, Placensia and Trujillo before turning east to head to Jackies dad's on Costa Blanca for Christmas and New Year. In mid-January we headed off SW and spent two and half months touring the southern part of Spain at a very slow pace. We quickened our pace as we entered Portugal as we had agreed another housesit two thirds of the way up the country, so we headed north inland through some stunning scenery. It was during the housesit we learned our tenants were leaving and the need to return home, so we left the housesit in Nagozela, near Santa Comba Dao on April 9th to travel fairly quickly north through the Douro River valley, Leon and the countryside in northern Spain before catching a ferry home from Bilbao. Here's what we did:
Posts of our travels:
1st to 3rd October 2018 - Alvechurch, UK to Montreuil-Sur-Mer
4th & 5th October 2018 - Montreuil-Sur-Mer to St-Valery-Sur-Somme
6th & 9th October 2018 - Etretat, Ouisteham, Pegasus bridge, Sword beach, Arrowmanche & Gold beach
10th to 12th October 2018 - Mont St Michel, Pouguenast in Brittany for housesit
13th to 19th October 2018 - Housesitting near Pouguenast, Brittany
20th to 25th October 2018 - Housesitting near Pouguenast, Brittany
26th to 28th October 2018 - Carnac, Brittany
29th to 31st October 2018 - Locmariaquer, Guerande, St Nazaire
1st to 4th November 2018 - Nantes and towards La Rochelle
5th to 8th November 2018 - Île de Ré
9th to 11th November 2018 - Oradour-sur-Glane
12th to 15th November 2018 - Dordogne Valley
15th to 21st November 2018 - Housesitting in the Dordogne Valley
22nd to 28th November 2018 - Housesitting in the Dordogne Valley
29th November to 2nd December 2018 - Lourdes, Oloron-St-Marie & St Jean Pied-de-Port
3rd to 7th December 2018 - Donostia San Sebastian, Lekeita, Bilbao & Caberceno
8th to 12th December 2018 - Burgos, Valladolid, Salamanca & Placensia
13th to 15th December 2018 - Monfragüe National Park & Trujillo
16th to 23rd December 2018 - Luciana, Chinchilla de Montearagon, Benissa & Altea La Vella
24th December to 1st January 2019 - Altea la Vella
2nd to 7th January 2019 - Altea la Vella
8th to 14th January 2019 - Altea la Vella
15th to 19th January 2019 - Altea la Vella to Totana
20th to 22nd January 2019 - Ricote
23rd to 25th January 2019 - Archena
26th to 30th January 2019 - Velez Rubio, Maria, Cazorla
1st to 4th February 2019 - Ubeda, Baeza, Cordoba, Castro del Rio
5th to 10th February 2019 - Sierra Nevada skiing, Alhama de Granada
11th to 14th February 2019 - Antequera, Lobo Park, El Torcal National Park, Ardales
15th to 19th February 2019 - Caminito del Rey walk, Grazalema and Benarraba
20th to 23rd February 2019 - Benarraba and Casares
24th to 28th February 2019 - Cape Trafalgar, Cadiz & Jerez
1st to 7th March 2019 - La Puebla de Cazalla & Seville
8th to 10th March 2019 - El Ricote, Andalusia
11th to 16th March 2019 El Ricote, Matalascana beach, Rabida, Gibraleon and Isla Cristina
17th to 20th March 2019 Isla Cristina, Castro Verde, Evora in Portgual
21st to 26th March 2019 Barragen da Povoa, Conimbriga, Nagosela
26th to 29th March 2019 - Housesitting in Nagozela
30th March to 3rd April 2019 - Housesitting in Nagozela
4th to 8th April 2019 - End of housesitting preparing to go back on the road
9th to 11th April 2019 - Nagozela, Viseu, Quinta de Padrela vineyard, Braganca
12th to 19th April 2019 - Leon, Astudillo, Santillana de Mar, Liergranes, Portsmouth
Trip 7: 18th June to 2nd August 2018 - from England to Scotland and back to England
After collecting 'Big Ted' we had 1 night nearby at Longleat, travelled up to Alvechurch to pack in everything we need, stayed a night in a campsite near Alvechurch and then headed up to Scotland. We stayed a night in a campsite in Cumbernauld and then onto Arbroath where our motorhome was parked up for three weeks while we housesat and learned all there is to know about our new home on wheels. After leaving we headed up to Pitlochry, on to Fort William and Glen Nevis, where we met up with some friends to hike Ben Nevis via the CMD arette, across to Edinburgh where we caught up with other friends Simon and Diane and met up with cruise friends Victor and Greg who were stopping at Edinburgh on their latest cruise. After a brief chat and coffee we headed up to near Elgin, where we met up with friends Helen and Ian and Corinne and stayed for a week helping other friends Tony and Nicky on their long term renovation of an old Steading into two luxury houses - hard work but great fun. Exhausted, we started a slow return home, back to Alvechurch, England, taking 5 days to get there, We stayed overnight at Stirling, Jedburgh, Catterick and Derby and finally Alvechurch, before dropping 'Big Ted' at his storage depot and collecting our car. Our next trip is planned for September/October time when we intend heading to France and Spain.
Here's a map of where we went, brown points are stops in June, blue are stops in July:
Posts of our travels:
18-22nd June 2018 - Warminster, England to Arbroath, Scotland
23-27th June 2018 - Housesitting in Arbroath, Scotland
27-29th June 2018 - More housesitting in Arbroath, Scotland
30th June - 6th July 2018 - Still housesitting in Arbroath, Scotland
7th-14th July 2018 - End of our housesit in Arbroath, Scotland
15th to 21st July 2018 - On the road again, Pitlochry to Glen Nevis. Our hike of Ben Nevis via CMD arette and meeting up with frield in Edinburgh
22nd to 29th July 2018 - Meeting up with cruising friends in Edinburgh followed by our hard working house building week near Elgin
30th July to 2nd August 2018 - From Scotland back to England over 5 days and putting 'Big Ted' into storage for a month or two
Trip 10 - 3rd to 13th November 2020 - A mini tour of half of Scotlands NC500
A very mini trip taken whilst we were spending our lockdown with friends in Moray, NE Scotland. Restrictions up there were relaxed for a while, the weather was settled, so we grabbed the opportunity and headed off until the weather changed
Trip 9 - 4th October to 15th December 2019 - Destinations: France, Germany & Belgium
This trip is summarised on a separate page, so click on the title above (or on this link: 'trip-9') to open the page on a separate tab. Below is a map showing our route, click on any location icon for information, photos and links to blog entries relating to it, or the square in the top left of the map for a list of all stops:
Trip 8: 2nd October 2018 to 19th April 2019 - Destinations: France, Spain and Portugal
We started this trip with a very vague plan to travel from England through France and Spain until sometime between May and the end of June 2019, but ended up returning home on 19th April as tenants in one of our houses were vacating and a complete refurbishment was required. We agreed to a housesit in Brittany for two weeks from 11th to 27th October, so spent the first 9 days touring Norther France and Normandy on a slow trip from the port of Calais.
After travelling down the west coast of France, then going inland a little then south to the Dordogne, we took a second housesit for a couple of weeks. we carried on south the west to enter Spain near San Sebastian, went across through Bilbao, then towards Santadander where we turned south to travel through Burgos, Valladolid, Salamanca, Placensia and Trujillo before turning east to head to Jackies dad's on Costa Blanca for Christmas and New Year. In mid-January we headed off SW and spent two and half months touring the southern part of Spain at a very slow pace. We quickened our pace as we entered Portugal as we had agreed another housesit two thirds of the way up the country, so we headed north inland through some stunning scenery. It was during the housesit we learned our tenants were leaving and the need to return home, so we left the housesit in Nagozela, near Santa Comba Dao on April 9th to travel fairly quickly north through the Douro River valley, Leon and the countryside in northern Spain before catching a ferry home from Bilbao. Here's what we did:
Posts of our travels:
1st to 3rd October 2018 - Alvechurch, UK to Montreuil-Sur-Mer
4th & 5th October 2018 - Montreuil-Sur-Mer to St-Valery-Sur-Somme
6th & 9th October 2018 - Etretat, Ouisteham, Pegasus bridge, Sword beach, Arrowmanche & Gold beach
10th to 12th October 2018 - Mont St Michel, Pouguenast in Brittany for housesit
13th to 19th October 2018 - Housesitting near Pouguenast, Brittany
20th to 25th October 2018 - Housesitting near Pouguenast, Brittany
26th to 28th October 2018 - Carnac, Brittany
29th to 31st October 2018 - Locmariaquer, Guerande, St Nazaire
1st to 4th November 2018 - Nantes and towards La Rochelle
5th to 8th November 2018 - Île de Ré
9th to 11th November 2018 - Oradour-sur-Glane
12th to 15th November 2018 - Dordogne Valley
15th to 21st November 2018 - Housesitting in the Dordogne Valley
22nd to 28th November 2018 - Housesitting in the Dordogne Valley
29th November to 2nd December 2018 - Lourdes, Oloron-St-Marie & St Jean Pied-de-Port
3rd to 7th December 2018 - Donostia San Sebastian, Lekeita, Bilbao & Caberceno
8th to 12th December 2018 - Burgos, Valladolid, Salamanca & Placensia
13th to 15th December 2018 - Monfragüe National Park & Trujillo
16th to 23rd December 2018 - Luciana, Chinchilla de Montearagon, Benissa & Altea La Vella
24th December to 1st January 2019 - Altea la Vella
2nd to 7th January 2019 - Altea la Vella
8th to 14th January 2019 - Altea la Vella
15th to 19th January 2019 - Altea la Vella to Totana
20th to 22nd January 2019 - Ricote
23rd to 25th January 2019 - Archena
26th to 30th January 2019 - Velez Rubio, Maria, Cazorla
1st to 4th February 2019 - Ubeda, Baeza, Cordoba, Castro del Rio
5th to 10th February 2019 - Sierra Nevada skiing, Alhama de Granada
11th to 14th February 2019 - Antequera, Lobo Park, El Torcal National Park, Ardales
15th to 19th February 2019 - Caminito del Rey walk, Grazalema and Benarraba
20th to 23rd February 2019 - Benarraba and Casares
24th to 28th February 2019 - Cape Trafalgar, Cadiz & Jerez
1st to 7th March 2019 - La Puebla de Cazalla & Seville
8th to 10th March 2019 - El Ricote, Andalusia
11th to 16th March 2019 El Ricote, Matalascana beach, Rabida, Gibraleon and Isla Cristina
17th to 20th March 2019 Isla Cristina, Castro Verde, Evora in Portgual
21st to 26th March 2019 Barragen da Povoa, Conimbriga, Nagosela
26th to 29th March 2019 - Housesitting in Nagozela
30th March to 3rd April 2019 - Housesitting in Nagozela
4th to 8th April 2019 - End of housesitting preparing to go back on the road
9th to 11th April 2019 - Nagozela, Viseu, Quinta de Padrela vineyard, Braganca
12th to 19th April 2019 - Leon, Astudillo, Santillana de Mar, Liergranes, Portsmouth
Trip 7: 18th June to 2nd August 2018 - from England to Scotland and back to England
After collecting 'Big Ted' we had 1 night nearby at Longleat, travelled up to Alvechurch to pack in everything we need, stayed a night in a campsite near Alvechurch and then headed up to Scotland. We stayed a night in a campsite in Cumbernauld and then onto Arbroath where our motorhome was parked up for three weeks while we housesat and learned all there is to know about our new home on wheels. After leaving we headed up to Pitlochry, on to Fort William and Glen Nevis, where we met up with some friends to hike Ben Nevis via the CMD arette, across to Edinburgh where we caught up with other friends Simon and Diane and met up with cruise friends Victor and Greg who were stopping at Edinburgh on their latest cruise. After a brief chat and coffee we headed up to near Elgin, where we met up with friends Helen and Ian and Corinne and stayed for a week helping other friends Tony and Nicky on their long term renovation of an old Steading into two luxury houses - hard work but great fun. Exhausted, we started a slow return home, back to Alvechurch, England, taking 5 days to get there, We stayed overnight at Stirling, Jedburgh, Catterick and Derby and finally Alvechurch, before dropping 'Big Ted' at his storage depot and collecting our car. Our next trip is planned for September/October time when we intend heading to France and Spain.
Here's a map of where we went, brown points are stops in June, blue are stops in July:
Posts of our travels:
18-22nd June 2018 - Warminster, England to Arbroath, Scotland
23-27th June 2018 - Housesitting in Arbroath, Scotland
27-29th June 2018 - More housesitting in Arbroath, Scotland
30th June - 6th July 2018 - Still housesitting in Arbroath, Scotland
7th-14th July 2018 - End of our housesit in Arbroath, Scotland
15th to 21st July 2018 - On the road again, Pitlochry to Glen Nevis. Our hike of Ben Nevis via CMD arette and meeting up with frield in Edinburgh
22nd to 29th July 2018 - Meeting up with cruising friends in Edinburgh followed by our hard working house building week near Elgin
30th July to 2nd August 2018 - From Scotland back to England over 5 days and putting 'Big Ted' into storage for a month or two
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