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Alanda At Last 21 Nov 2011 | 11:28 am
1535 miles, 1029 photographs and eighteen days and nights of beer, fatty foods and living out of a suitcase, the journey comes to an end. It feels like home straight away and we settle in feeling lik...
The End is Nigh 16 Nov 2011 | 08:10 am
Woke up with a hangover and a bottle of hot chilli sauce on the bed side table, as standard. Today is Halloween and we?re going to be spending it at the prime party spot for the rich and famous, Puert...
Sun, Sea and Snow 13 Nov 2011 | 12:59 pm
Tonight?s stay in Torremolinos was a last minute addition to the original plan. We only booked our stay a week earlier, while in Bayeux, after flicking through our hotel reservations and spotting a ga...
Capital city numero dos! 8 Nov 2011 | 12:26 pm
I had an image in my head of what I expected Granada to be like. At the foot of the Sierra Nevada, I was expecting a small, sleepy town that resembles Christmas time in a Charles Dickens novel. In act...
Cultured in the capital 3 Nov 2011 | 09:58 am
Paul has been looking forward to today since the last time we were here, six months ago. The reason being, there is a bar here where you can get beer and tapa for only one euro, a novelty in Spain, pa...
Bohemia Bordeaux 29 Oct 2011 | 07:49 am
Bordeaux is the last stopping point before we get to Spain and there are still a few Frenchies we haven't tried yet. Escargot and a crêpe in particular, obviously because of our location a bottle of t...
No hablo mucho español 27 Oct 2011 | 11:36 am
After spending a week with my head stuck in a French phrase book the transition to Spanish is a little tricky. Paul muses that the first person to use merci instead of gracias is a loser. Of course th...
Then we Musee south 27 Oct 2011 | 10:15 am
So that's Sword beach ticked of the list, we now head west to visit Juno beach (where the Canadians landed) and Gold Beach (where we Brits conquered) before heading south to Bayeux. With two museums ...
Nantes stop 23 Oct 2011 | 04:25 am
We left Bayeux reasonably early and arrive in Nantes ahead of time. The hotel is in the middle of a busy industrial estate in the St Herblain region just west of the city. We are only staying one nigh...
Sightseeing begins 21 Oct 2011 | 09:09 am
Today is the first day that we'll really get stuck into some tourism. We're in Ouistreham in Normandy where the French and British troops landed on the beaches on D-Day, Sword beach was it's codename....
