Six years ago, in 2018, the other side of the temporal gulf, known colloquially as “Covid”, we met Mr and Mrs Oviedo. Of course that isn’t their real name. (They are now very good friends, but we didn’t really know…
2. PARTY, PARTY!
Early on in our stay two notable things happened. Firstly, we had a flying display over the caravan. A marsh harrier and an osprey in tandem. Later evidence suggests the osprey (fairly rare in this neck of the woods) was…
1. BACK TO SPAIN!
It’s been a while since we were last in Spain All of two weeks! Time spent getting ready to have the house painted and getting the automatic watering system up and running, There were a couple of covid boosters to…
10. BARCELONA AND HOME.
It’s a fair old distance from Gibralter to Barcelona. I seem to remember the captain saying it was 420 nautical miles – but that might have been from Cádiz. Or it might have been the distance from Casablanca to Cádiz! …
9. CÁDIZ
On the way to Cádiz, while travelling almost due North, we seemed to have lost a couple of hours sleep. Interesting how national policies on time and “summer time” work to confuse us mortal travellers. Cádiz. A lovely city. Possibly…
8. CASABLANCA, MOROCCO
Our guide in Casablanca, whose name I couldn’t possibly spell, let’s call him Ali for short … … turns out to be completely blind. Novel for a guide! To be fair, he did have a minder to help him get…
7. AGADIR, MOROCCO
Well, we got off the Canary Islands just in time! The locals are revolting! Locals in the sun-kissed Spanish islands of Tenerife, Lanzarote and Gran Canaria are claiming that tourism is destroying their economy. A protest is set to take…
6. LANZAROTE
Lanzarote, the Windy Island and, apparently, the oldest of the island group. The most recent islands are in the South-West. The older ones are drifting slowly to the North-East. But the volcanoes, although really old (like 200 million years old)…
5. GRAN CANARIA
I’m having to retype this section. A bit of a tragedy on the Internet front. It stopped yesterday. Stopped for EVERYBODY! The ship has a weirdly complicated system on board. Every cabin gets one account (at least) – the posher,…
4. TENERIFE
As usual, I’m getting impressively behind. As this is being written, I’m watching the African coast glide by some 8-10 miles off the starboard side. And although there is a bit of a swell, we are heading more or less…