Devall Travels

Whilst I was whiling away a bit of time before the football, Oldham Athletic at home to Crewe Alexandra, was going to kick off on Sky Sports+, I was looking through the Caravan and Motorhome Club's European Campsites booklet for this year.  When we arrive in Santander on the long ferry from Plymouth, it will be around 1pm. If it takes as long to get out of the ferry port as it did when we arrived in Bilbao, we are looking at an hour after docking, at the earliest, before we hit the road. Bilbao is further to the east on the north coast of Spain, and we arrived early in the morning. So we had a little longer to work our way to the first site we had booked. After two nights on the ferry from Portsmouth, we were ready for a place to decompress for a few days.   Last time we stayed at Caravan Oyambre .  In the Caravan Club's book there are three sites around the same area. I chose this one last time as it was closer to a beach for walks than the rivals. That is still the case. I di...

La Manga for a holiday. Back in those days I worked a normal workers contract.  Management hadn't tried to force us to have school holidays and so we could go when we felt like it. La Manga (Google Maps) We stayed in a timeshare right at the end of the spit the furthest away from the nalnd end where you access the  one road along the spit. This old lighthouse is at the end of the spit of land where there is a gap from the open ses into the Mar Menor. From this base it meant a long drive to get to the mainland a head any where. It was a holiday and supposed to be relaxing! One such trip was to Cabo Palos.  For a paddle in the sea, proper sea not Mar Menor, and linch at the Miramar restaurant.  We ate here a few times when not self catering. We did most of the shopping for foods locally. Getting off the spit was a long drive. Another of the trips out was a short run to Cartagena. It was hot and a nice walk around to see the sites and of course the submarine. Wedne...