One of you identified the errant spelling of the “Euro-Traveller” series. However, having consulted page 3331 of 3742 in the “Shorter” Oxford English Dictionary… … I find that “travelers” can be spelt with either one or two Ls. So, no…
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We are off on our travels again! Heading for the Arctic once more. Well, anywhere north of Devon is in that direction! Basically we are going to The Lakes and Northumberland – which, it should be noted, is a third…
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13 RAUZAN There are two short sections of Péage on the A63 between the Spanish border and Bordeaux. One runs from just north-west of Dax for about 10 miles. The other is just south of Bordeaux before the road becomes…
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11 LEAVING PORTUGAL – WHO SAID UNPAID TOLLS? I’ve just discovered that “Cima” in Portuguese means “top” and nothing to do with “cemetery”. So perhaps we were safe the other day after all! On Thursday a lady (Bridgette) comes on…
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17 SARZEAU AND HOME I guess this will the last missive in this series. I’m sure you will be delighted to hear this news! Ecstatic, even! Unless we miss the ferry, of course! Yesterday we did indeed find another shady…
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16 RETURNING TO BRITTANY Just shows how many of you are keeping up with my messages! Did anyone notice that part 14 was missing? No one told me that they’d missed an important section of the story! Well well… It’s…
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Early morning rain in Hinton Parva is as wet as rain in Bath. However, the wind was strong enough to blow it away by mid-morning. (We were experiencing the tail end of “Storm Callum” which has wreaked havoc in South…
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12 BACK TO SPAIN AND ON TO FRANCE The only problem with driving across Spain in a diagonally NE direction is the lack of campsites. Realistically, for huge sections of the trip there were no camp grounds because there were…
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10 QUINTA DOS MOINHOS Ahhh! Think I’ve lost part 9. It sort of half went, then got stuck – now it registers as a draft but nothing shows. So you can count yourself lucky! I’ll try and catch up later…
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9 BAD BACKS AND WALL LIZARDS Now I’m trying to put together last week’s news. Somewhat abbreviated …. “Hurrah!” I hear. The reason why I’d been able to catch up was that I hurt my back really badly and ended…