2023/4 Winter Trip - Day 36 - 04/12/2023
We have been in Benidorm for a week now. It’s been lovely to see familiar faces from our previous visits and to also meet new people....
Jacksons Escape in a Motorhome
Welcome to our blog - Chris and Diane Jackson's Escape - travelling Europe in our motorhome.  We hope you enjoy following our travels.
We have been in Benidorm for a week now. It’s been lovely to see familiar faces from our previous visits and to also meet new people....
It was quite a windy night, by the sea, rocking the Motorhome, but we woke to another beautiful calm morning 🥰 We travelled to Benidorm,...
We walked over the runway into Gibraltar - when a plane is due to take off or land, the runway obviously has to be cleared, and the...
After a great night's sleep, we left our park up, and decided to drive to Gibraltar. The roads here were so much busier, made worse with...
Today we walked around the area, as most places were closed when we walked there last night. There weren't many people around either - I...
We walked back to the beach area, where Lola enjoyed a paddle, before we negotiated the exit ramp from the stopover - still a squeeze,...
Today we took out the bikes and cycled to the 'west side' - along the river, the cobbled side streets and then along the track by the...
There were quite a few people walking past chatting late last night, which looked like a well used route through from the residential...
We woke up to a beautiful sunrise, although we had to be quick to capture it. At 8am, we heard a bugle, then the church bells chimed. ...
We were parked on a motorhome stopover that was also a lorry park. Lots of lorries must have parked up overnight. We didn't hear them...
A quiet stopover on the edge of a little French village. It was lovely to hear the church bells chiming on the hour - I do miss them....
The church bells rang again this morning, it's lovely to hear, but the main bells rang at a quarter to the hour, not sure why that is. We...
A boater friend of ours went out to work and was surprised to see us parked on the car park. He stopped and said hello, and we agreed to...
Another cold night, getting us ready for going back to England ! We had to change the regulator again - this is the 4th one now - we...
Today was the day for Port tasting 😋 We got a taxi into the town, direct to one of the Port Wine Cellars. The taxi‘s Sat Nav was worse...
We had quite a storm during the night; rain, hail, thunder and lightening, right above us - the electricity in the town went out once,...
Chris caught the sunrise this morning over the Rock of Gibraltar. I couldn’t leave Gibraltar without seeing the monkeys and the fantastic...
We woke up to what we thought was rain, but luckily it was just the sprinklers 😃 I went for a short walk this morning along the beach...
With being in Benidorm for the whole of October, I have decided to do the blogs week by week as we plan on chilling and won’t have a lot...
We decided to stay on the campsite for a second night. We had a lazy morning, and then went into the pool again, before going out for a...