Grandad does Granada

Saturday 27th December 2014   Jill, Martin, Gramanda and Grandad (Hi Fred and Stan – we do miss you!) were all looking forward to a grand day out in the provincial capital city of Granada. We were going to pay a quick visit to The Alhambra, a Moorish Citadel and Palace that is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Granada…

It’s a dogs life

Monday 15th December 2014 We will be in Motril until 2nd January and we then have to make a decision: either head up the east coast of Spain or to return to Portugal and head up the Atlantic coast. We shall see. One thing that we do know is that we need to be back…

A nod to Eric and Shazza

Monday 8th December 2014 This morning we set out early from Twernt as we were hoping to get a picture of a car ferry with the sun rising over the Med – we wanted to produce a quick blog post to wish ‘bon voyage’ to our friends, Eric and Shazza, as they take ‘Big Momma’…

The boys are back in town!

Saturday 6th December 2014 At midnight plus 15 minutes I left Twernt and walked down to the camping entrance to stand at the roadside and become a ‘live’ version of a ‘Google Earth Placemark/Pin’ for Ed & Will arriving from Malaga in their rental car. It’s possible to arrive here from either direction so I…

Such a Woman

Friday 5th December 2014 Sons Ed & Will are due here in a few hours. They won’t be here until 1:00am-ish on Saturday morning – they will have their own written instructions on how to get to Camping Playa Granada from Malaga and bloggerlugs (yours truly) will need to stand at the campsite entrance and…

It’s snowing!

Thursday 4th December 2014  Happy 24th Birthday to our youngest son William!                                     Today is son William’s birthday, he doesn’t ‘do’ Facebook and we can rarely reach him on Skype so here’s hoping that he will notice this new blog being swiftly posted to arrive on his birthday. Have a…