Travels with Fufu, our motorhome
Wednesday 16th April 2025 Heading further south, we called in at the small, medieval town of Mértola with its castle and narrow cobbled streets. There seems to be an abundance of this type of settlement down this eastern side of Portugal. Access to the town is via this high-level bridge over the Guadiana River. Located …
Tuesday 15th April 2025 Today, we have moved further south to the small settlement of São Domingos where we are staying on a paid motorhome park-up, for the princely sum of 7 € which includes electric hook up. Most of the way, we followed the N265, which was in a dreadful state of repair. Possibly …
Monday 14th April 2025 Leaving Monsaraz, we headed south down the reservoir, calling at Castello de Mourão, Luz, Estrella and the Alqueva Dam. Our route firstly took us across two long, multi-span bridges, the first of which you can see in the distance, in this image from yesterday's blog post: Castello de Mourão: As with …
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Saturday 12th April 2025 Today we travelled further south, to the larger town of Évora. On the way, we saw some storks, nesting on the top of telegraph poles: And just a little further on, we were diverted across a new, seemingly temporary bridge made of sewer pipes, as the old stone, eight arched bridge …
Friday 11th April 2025 In a complete contrast to yesterday's clear blue skies and 34 degree temperatures, today started overcast and cool, then as we set off further south, it began to rain. As we progressed, we passed through heavier patches and it did not actually stop until we reached our destination for the night, …
Thursday 20th - Monday 24th March 2025 We are staying on the Camping and Caravanning Club site at Delamere Forest, as part of the CCC Photo Group meeting being held there. Our thanks to Ian and Sue for stewarding the meet and making everyone feel welcome. Thursday 20th - Friday 21 March After setting up …
Friday 7th to Sunday 9th March 2025 We had an unexpectedly free weekend, so decided to visit St Michael's-on-Wyre, staying with the Ribblesdale British Caravanners Club, which is a section of the Camping and Caravanning Club. They were holding their AGM at Turnover Hall Farm and Caravan Site and they allowed us to piggy-back onto …
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Saturday 19th October 2024 (day 36). Another brief post today. It rained consistently for much of the morning, stopping only long enough for us to get some shopping done, eventually stopping around 2pm. Taking advantage of this, we chilled for a while, then later went for a cycle ride along the canal. There is consistent …
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Wednesday 2nd October 2024 (day 19) A wet day was forecast, so we had booked tickets to tour the Doge's Palace. Unlike yesterday, when we just wandered around, we made our way straight to the palace, just off St. Mark's Square, passing through some of the poshest shopping streets along the way. Most of the …
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Thursday 26th - Saturday 28th September 2024 (days 13 - 15). Thursday was a complete wash-out. We had moved further down Lake Maggiore to Verbania, a city which is on a headland, on the west coast of the lake. It threatened rain on the way down and arriving around 11am, we managed to just about …
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"See-u-Later" 