Trurnaround – New Directions Once More It’s six a.m. on Friday the third of June, and the air is full of the sound of birds welcoming the new day. Iggy the Hymer motorhome and I are the only ones awake in our little spot in Camping Lac Vert Plage, on the banks...
Residency in Portugal – Travel Malarkey Get Our CRUE It’s Thursday the first of October 2020 as I wake up for the first time as a legal resident of Portugal. The early morning sun is glinting through Iggy’s not quite shut blinds, and it is a pleasantly cool...
Route Map to a New Life – Scotland to Portugal Hi, and welcome to the first in a new series of Travel Malarkey “Route Map” articles. In this new series I’m going to make up a number of route maps, showing all the destinations we’ve...
The Run For Home – Covid Diaries Part Two The day is Tuesday the 24th of March 2020, and it’s day seven of our self isolation back home in Iggy the Hymer. My fingers hesitate over the keys – not sure what to write. Not sure what my story is anymore,...
Gijon – Coronavirus Decisions Far From Home It is two o’clock in the morning – Spanish time – and Iggy the Hymer motorhome is parked in the free “Area de Autocaravanas” in Gijon. I have woken from a dream I can’t remember. But...
Guimaraes – The First Capital of Portugal It’s Tuesday the 3rd of March and the rain is teeming down in the small city of Guimaraes, thirty odd miles northeast of Porto. Iggy has spent a wet and windy night tucked against the face of a hill in the large,...