Jacksons Escape

Woke up to a gorgeous sunrise. We emptied and filled up with water, before leaving the aire. We headed north towards the mountains, over...

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...

Had a great sleep, it was a little parking area right on the edge of the village, across from publics loos, and near to the emergency...

This morning we headed to the coast to Portimao marina via the Arade Dam. We managed to park up, and eventually found a path leading to...

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...

We stayed another day in Obidos and chilled. It was a showery day, but did manage to get out later, and visited Mel and Rob again in...

The joy of being parked right next to a huge church you get to hear the bells from at 7am to 10pm, every quarter of an hour. Basically...

We both had an amazing sleep, probably helped by the drinks we had last night - we are such light weights these days. At 6:30am we heard...

Wow what an awful night.  We thought we were still on the boat with the amount of wind and rain that we had ! Chris made breakfast,...

We woke up to gentle music being piped in the cabins - our 5:40am wake up music.  We expected an announcement, but nothing yet.  We...

We both managed to have a good night’s sleep.  We had a coffee in the cabin, after getting out of bed and being forced to do a little jog...

We worked our last day of this season, and started our 4 month break 😊. We have had quite a lot of heavy rain over the last few days,...

We had a great night's sleep. Managed to plug into the electric too. It should have been €8 to stay, but no one came to collect the money...

We woke up to blue skies and a frost this morning. We had a walk around the market and fed the ducks / geese before heading off. Today...

So much for charging the habitational batteries - there was a power cut from 3:30am until 8:30am - just our luck. Anyway, we did manage...

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....

Thankfully, we managed to have a good sleep after yesterday's stressful journey. Today's journey can only be better surely ! We left...

Today was the most scariest journey ever ! We started our journey back to the UK, and said goodbye to the Arena Blanca campsite, home for...