This is the sixth and final part of my write up following a very decent trip in Spain and Portugal, although I will write a sort of supplementary post that picks up on a few general issues and reflections on the trip, and if you’re at all interested in what I think of the BMW […]
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By the time I left my hotel in Colmenar – the superb Casona Los Moriscos, it really had started to feel that this was now very much Part 2 of my trip, not only because I was well into the second half of my time away, but because from now on what ever route I […]
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Previously in this series of Blog posts I’ve written about my travel from Santander down to Jerez in southern Spain, (you can go to Part One by clicking here). The trip up to this point had been superb and had more than met my expectations. Roads had been great, weather superb and I had enjoyed […]
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Having spent two nights in Mantiegas at the Hotel Berne I decided to move on. In truth I could easily have stayed longer, in fact I had already started to think about maybe returning there in 2019 and making it my base for maybe three or four days, and that’s not something that I would […]
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This is the second part of the Blog post covering a recent trip to Spain and Portugal. You can read Part One, here. After leaving my accommodation in Boca de Huérgano, I decided to head for Sobrado a small place in Galicia in the north-west of Spain. I made a booking at the Hotel Rural […]
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I returned last week from another wonderful solo trip, this time traveling in Spain and Portugal. I was last there in September last year when my wife and I started off with some time in the Picos de Europa before heading to Galicia and then working our way down into Portugal before traveling further into […]
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By any measure and any standards, I had a fantastic trip through Spain and Portugal and over the next few days I will start to post write ups with plenty of pictures of course. Great roads, accommodation and weather – all in all pretty much perfect. Watch this space over the next couple of days […]
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Less than 48 hours to the start of my 2018 Road Trip … and it’s fair to say I’m now starting to get just a little excited.
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Difficult family circumstances meant that I had to cancel and re-schedule a road trip that I was due to set off on at the start of this month (July). The new start date for the trip is now looming and in between sorting a whole range of things out that followed the passing of my […]
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I wrote last week about the remarkable service that I received from Brittany Ferries when I had to cancel and re-schedule a trip following my Father passing away. My wife and I had another motorbike trip scheduled (this time with DFDS)_which was for a return journey from Dunkerque to Dover. The knock on effect of […]
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