Heading West!

After enjoying the delights of Granada we sadly packed up to move further west.  We did decide that at some point in the near future we would like to spend a long weekend staying in the city centre itself, but that is something for 2011/2012.

We are now 1,732 kms (1,076 miles) as the crow flies from 60 Shelley Road.

This is the furthest south west we will be bringing the caravan.  Day trips will take us further but when we leave here we will be heading (oh so slowly) towards home.

Getting here:
From Granada we travelled on the A92 towards Seville.  My sister has an apartment near Marbella, and as we haven't seen her since we left, we aranged to meet up together for an overnight rendevue.  We 'parked' our caravan at a brand new site in a small town called Humilladero, due north of Malaga, to meet up with her on Monday 7th February. 

Humilladero was a town like no other, but I will leave Peter to tell you all about that!

It took us 1.5 hours to drive to Tricia's apartment through heavy rain, fog, low cloud, sunshine......you name it we had it....but not snow!

Our sat-nav found her address without any problems, (which is surprising as we have travelled many miles out of our way because of this contraption).

We had a lovely time catching up on family news and seeing the south coast of Spain.  (Thanks Trish and John for your hospitality.)

We headed back to Humilladero on the Tuesday to continue our adventure.  We had decided that it was possible to drive from Humilladero all the way through to Lagos, Portugal in one go.  It meant a total of 5/6 hours driving but we were now hungry to leave Spain and get to our premier destination...Portugal.  This is where the dream began......22 years ago....to tour the whole country.

We have settled on a lovely site about 4 kms west of Lagos.  Our nearest beach is Praia da Luz, about 2 kms, easy walking!

We have friends from Wycombe coming to stay with us on Sunday for a week, and we think we will remain here for at least a month, possibly longer, we'll see how we feel as time progresses.

Benji's hair is slowly growing back, so he'll probably need another haircut within the month, but I will do it myself.

I need to pass the computer to Pete now for him to fill you in on our week at Humilladero.

Hopefully we will have Wi-Fi access more regularly now so we can keep the blog updated.
J x