For three days now, the front wheel of my bike has had a flat tyre, though for the middle of those days I hadn’t realised because we were just driving. This sorry episode began as a self inflicted wound caused…

We planned a lunch in one of the restaurants in Madrigal de la Vera. First, however, we needed some shopping. There is a Dia supermarket in Madrigal which is about 1 mile/1.5 km distant. We decided to use Shanks’s Pony…

Today we were leaving Salamanca and heading for Madrigal de la Vera, approximately a 3-hour journey of about 200kms. In between our start and end points lies the Sierra de Gredos, a mountain range which Frodo was going to have…

My dear old, very skilful dad, a joiner by trade, imprinted on me a couple of phrases which I have always thought very notable: The man who never made a mistake never made anything; If it ain’t broke don’t fix…

Salamanca sits at about 780m above sea level, some 200m lower than Burgos. Our overnight temperature dropped to about 10°C so, early in the morning our heating kicked in. This place more sensibly has a 10amp supply, though, so no…

We’ve finished our five nights at Camping Fuentes Blancas in Burgos and it’s time to move on. We opted for five nights just to be able to relax after the journey to Spain but, in truth, four would probably have…

Burgos is about 890m/2900ft above sea level. Overnight was cold. We were OK in bed but getting out of bed in the morning was a bit of a thermal shock. Francine got up to make tea and thinking, “bugger this,…

Just by the by, I’ll muse briefly about the Spanish time zone. Spain being on the same time zone as Germany is bonkers, as far west as it is. Being on summertime anyway, the UK is already an hour ahead…

This is not our first visit to Burgos. We called in here before on one of our earlier return trips from Casa Libélula in Jalón. That was just a stop of a couple of hours; now we are here for…

Salamanca got us into Bilbao’s harbour at the appointed time of 08:00. Motor homes are loaded down on deck 3 along with trucks so we were amongst the first to be called to disembark. Mercifully that got us out and…