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Tag: Spain
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I often get a really bad night’s sleep before ferry crossings, and sadly last night was one of them. Apple is very displeased with me. The alarm went off at 6a.m., just when I’d actually managed to get to sleep, and after a Flynn walk we were off to the ferry. It turned out that…
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After yesterday, this morning was decidedly middling. Still, we set off with Flynn to scope out the vet and then walk back along the beach to town. As we got to the beach, the weather was, as Jimmy Greaves might have put it, “a game of two halves” to the right: dark clouds and rain,…
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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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