Now we are steaming back up-river AWAY from the Black Sea. Today we have a long coach trip BACK to the coast at Constanta. All coach trips are accompanied by a guide’s commentary. Today was no exception . We are…
05. THE END OF THE LINE.
Sunday, day seven and the mouth of the Danube is within sight. Well, within a day’s cruising, anyway! But first we have the delta to explore. We were told about all the species of birds which would see – or…
04. PARIS OF THE EAST
From our mooring spot at Russe we were coached a convenient 90 minutes NW to Bucharest, the capital of Romania. The countryside en route could be described as “not hilly”. But that would be a dreadful under-exaggeration. It’s just plain…
03. THE IRON GORGE AND PLÉVEN
Thursday dawned another lovely misty morning. Good. No rain for our trip through the Iron Gorge. All on deck for a commentated transition through the gorge. Entering the gorge… Passing one of the control stations (actually they were churches as…
02. HAVE WE GOT INTERNET?
Basically the answer to that is “Not a lot!” We have been having dreadful trouble with lack of wifi and no mobile data – so things have (as usual, but for a different reason) got a long way behind. We…
01. HAVE WE GOT TIME?
We’ve been home for weeks now – almost a month, even. Boris is mired down by the most deviously, un-democratic processes (on both sides) and is going to find leaving the EU problematic. Hurricane Lorenzo is threatening to hit Devon…
15. THE FINAL STAGES.
We discussed going to Santiago de Compostela. Either with or without the caravan. The reviews of the city camp-site (not universally encouraging) persuaded us to make a day trip out of the mission. To be honest, we had fairly low…
14. NOT THE BEST OF DAYS!
The day we left Dos Moinhos for Spain was just one of those days. Nothing seemed to go right. And some things went badly wrong. I suppose every caravanning holiday has a couple of days a bit like that! First…
13. YES! DUORO VALLEY
After all the panic, we breezed out of our little hollow at Toca da Reposa! But I wouldn’t want to try it without 4WD. Having invested in a card to pay the electronic tolls, we could leave the area in…
12. OVER THE HILL
As we left Spain, we saw one of the thousands of deer warning signs. This one showed a very energetic deer. Capable of jumping 5 km! To be fair we have now seen quite a few deer about. We spotted…