Just for fun, I plotted our stops on a Google map. I tried putting the actual route in as well but silly ol’ Google Maps then overwrote my nice little motor home icons with letters for the stages. So, in…

We’ve come to the end of our inaugural Spanish camping trip and it’s been both a good one and an educational one. Hearing stories of Spanish campsites being rammed over winter and fearing that we might have difficulty finding availability,…

We had rain overnight [shock, horror] and it didn’t show signs of stopping in the morning. Morning is late in Spain at his latitude with sunrise not being until about 08:30 at this time of year. Bonkers! Our pal had…

For our first time, we have been camping around various parts of Spain for the last five weeks. We are now nearing the end of our travels and are at Haro, the main town of the Rioja wine region, where…

I’m afraid I have no idea how the Spanish pronounce this place but here we are. We spent a reasonably comfortable and quiet night off-grid on an aire de autocaravanas at Belchite. We had actually been off-grid once before on…

After nine nights, we have managed to leave Alclalí. This was not quite as easy as you might at first think. Finding someone available to take payment was the trickiest thing. I asked on Friday if I could pay mañana…

In our earlier years at Jalón there was no supermarket. Instead, there were some local butchers, greengrocers and a breadshop. For a supermarket, we had to go to Benissa with its Mercadona and Consum. Then a Masymas supermarket opened up…

After our brush with a mega-campsite, we have moved back to our more normal habitat. We are at Alcalalí, a village just 2 kms from Jalón beneath our former house, Casa Libélule, which we can see up the hillside behind…

For a variety of reasons we have spent our first night at the humongous Alannia Costa Blanca resort. There were no appealing options between our previous stop at Granada and here. Whilst there are a couple of small campsites in…

I declared myself fit enough to drive. I just needed a supply of pañuelos [tissues] in the cab with me. Francine had searched and searched and searched but could find nowhere appealing to stop in between Granada and our old…