by Fi | 18 Jul, 2019 | Castles, Portugal, Spring Tour 2019
After our long day out in Coimbra we decided to stay another day and just loiter around the areas of town closest to the van. To eat breakfast in the park, lunch in the cafes, and spend a long chilled evening watching movies with our feet well and truly up. In fact...
by Fi | 17 Jul, 2019 | Cities, Portugal, Spring Tour 2019
It’s Wednseday 27th February and today is our 23rd on the road since we up and walked out of that Morrison’s supermarket back in Edinburgh. Today that may as well be a lifetime ago as Iggy and the Travel Malarkey team are living the easy life at the free...
by Fi | 16 Jul, 2019 | Portugal, Spring Tour 2019
Iggy the Hymer motorhome has moved again and is currently sitting quietly in a Sports centre carpark in the little Portuguese town of Aveiro. It is early morning, and, as is our usual habit, I am trying to catch up with the Blog before Jay wakes. Once he’s up...
by Fi | 15 Jul, 2019 | Cities, Portugal, Spring Tour 2019
On our first morning in Porto we set off bright and early for the three mile walk along the river Douro from Afurada fishing harbour into the city centre. Normally I might hesitate to park up so far away. But in the case of Porto an hour’s walk along this...
by Fi | 14 Jul, 2019 | Cities, Portugal, Spring Tour 2019
Iggy the Hymer motorhome is sitting by the mouth of the Douro river in Afurada, Porto. ( 41.142951, -8.648327 ). Outside the van the air rings with the familiar sound of gulls crying. I smile happily at my beloved sounds of the sea, and cast my mind back over the last...
