Provence
Provence, that glorious sunlit land of meadows, vineyards, goats, gorges, tumbling rivers, potager gardens, hilltop villages, abbeys, lavender fields, cypress trees and wooden-shuttered farmhouses. Meeting up with my mum at […]
Category Archives: Countries
A tale of two rivieras
Back in 2011, we set out glamorously from Provence to a midway perch at the charming hillside Templar town of Les Arcs sur Argens, home to a campervan-friendly cooperative of […]
Cinque Terra
Our guide across the Italian Riviera towards Rome was the Emperor Augustus, as we followed his famed Via Aurelia east. For four hundred years, this formidably engineered Roman road served […]
Completing the circle around Iberia
Squeezed into a narrow cove, reminiscent of Cornwall’s seaside villages, Cudillero’s seafaring houses tumble into and onto each other down the rocky cliffsides. A maze of steep winding lanes and […]
Oviedo
From Leon, we drove north into Asturias along the impressively engineered AP66. The motorway passes through steep valleys across a series of enormous bridges and through hillsides in tunnels. At […]
Leon
The kingdom of Leon was created when the Asturian King, Alfonso the Great, divided his realm amongst his three sons. Leon was inherited by Garcia I in 910AD and so […]
Huelva & Isla Cristina
Huelva is last of the large Spanish port towns before the Portuguese border and the place where Christopher Columbus (or Cristobal Colon as he is known locally) set off from […]
El Rocio
Hot and dusty, the white village of El Rocio borders the marshy wetlands of the Parque Nacional de Donana. Low-slung terraces of white-washed houses with wooden balconies and hitching posts […]
Seville
What better place to begin exploring one of Spain’s most beautiful cities, than in the morning shade of its incredible parkland and pleasure ground – the Plaza de Espana in […]
Carmona
For a view of dead Romans, you can’t beat the subterranean tombs at Carmona. Declared by Julius Caesar to be “the best defended town in the whole of Roman Baetica” […]
