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Only a two hour drive today, to the DFDS ticket office at the port of Algeciras. Luckily I’d found a record of my booking number in Notes, so I wasn’t quite as brain dead with vaccine-induced fever as I thought. With that information, I was quickly issued a set of actual paper tickets. Luckily I…
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We bit off a little more than I could chew today. Our intention was perhaps to get to Tarifa but the long motorway slog was getting the better of me by about Seville with another two hours to go. We stopped briefly in a weird lorry park cum hotel sent forward in time from the…
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Another driving day today. We set off soon after dawn and came across a weird Garmin sat nav failure. Its fastest route takes 7h 22m, and the shortest distance tales 5h 46m, which if I’m not mistaken, is a fair bit faster than the fastest route. We gave up on Garmin, and used Apple Maps…
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We’re in Spain! Zumaia to be exact. The car park down the little industrial estate where Ortiz bung sardines into cans to be very exact. I’ll not post a picture because it might hurt our Instagrams. We have several tins or Ortiz anchovies and sardines in our “last minute essential supplies” packing for Jones. I…
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Christmas Day! After a leisurely start, we walked Flynn along the river below the citadel. Then we returned through town, pausing briefly for Rog to buy himself an almond croissant. On the way back, I “found” an evergreen branch to be our Christmas tree. We started our Christmas celebrations with present opening, blinis and salmon roe,…
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Quite a big drive today. We set off before 9 and landed just after 3 at Château Marquis de Vauban as suggested by a internet friend. We’ve got a great pitch looking directly onto the vineyard. There are two other brits and a handful of Germans and French here for Christmas Day. One of the…
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Finally the time has come! We’d hoped to leave a week ago, but Rog has now joined the ranks of the old fogies in needing a regular prescription – statins in his case. After the first month of these, he had to have a blood test for liver function, and only if that was clear…
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After a couple of days we got the call that Jones had been dried out, re-sealed and made good. if we’d known it was going to be so quick we’d probably have stayed in Hull. As we hadn’t I set off, solo in the little Citroen loaner. Travelling solo meant no navigator and the loaner…
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