
Jacksons Escape
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.

2023/4 Winter Trip - Day 30 - 28/11/2023
It was quite a windy night, by the sea, rocking the Motorhome, but we woke to another beautiful calm morning 🥰 We travelled to Benidorm,...

2023/4 Winter Trip - Day 21 - 19/11/2023
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...

2023/4 Winter Trip - Day 20 - 18/11/2023
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...

2023/4 Winter Trip - Day 18 - 16/11/2023
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...

2023/4 Winter Trip - Day 17 - 15/11/2023
We walked back to the beach area, where Lola enjoyed a paddle, before we negotiated the exit ramp from the stopover - still a squeeze,...

2023/4 Winter Trip - Day 14 - 12/11/2023
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...

2023/4 Winter Trip - Day 13 - 11/11/2023
There were quite a few people walking past chatting late last night, which looked like a well used route through from the residential...

2023/4 Winter Trip - Day 10 - 08/11/2023
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. ...

2023/4 Winter Trip - Day 09 - 07/11/2023
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...

Winter Trip to Spain - Day 72- 19/01/2023
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....

Winter Trip to Spain - Day 5 - 13/11/2022
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...

Day 221 - 06/12/19 - Staffordshire, England
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...

Day 219 - 04/12/19 - Calais, France
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...

Day 207 - 22/11/19 - Porto, Portugal
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...

Day 206 - 21/11/19 - Porto, Portugal
We had quite a storm during the night; rain, hail, thunder and lightening, right above us - the electricity in the town went out once,...

Day 194 - 09/11/19 - Gibraltar
Chris caught the sunrise this morning over the Rock of Gibraltar. I couldn’t leave Gibraltar without seeing the monkeys and the fantastic...

Day 193 - 08/11/19 - Gibraltar
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...

Days 155 to 161 - 1st to 7th October 2019 - Benidorm, Spain
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...

Day 154 - 30/09/19 - Denia, Spain
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...



















