Tapp's Travels

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…

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…

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…

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…

Finally, after twelve happy days, we are moving on.  Guadalupe is not far away and there is a campsite a bit North of town.  It’s in the hills and we are a bit worried that there’s not going to be…

One day we decided to head West towards Portugal.  There are three rural hotels in the same chain as Glenda’s favourite near Monfragüe.   These need checking out.  On the way we stopped off at the remains of a Roman village,…

Well, as I write this we aren’t still at Plasecia.   But that’s another story.  We went to Monfragüe for four nights and stayed twelve!  For a rather scruffy, unkempt sort of a place it has certain attractions.  Not the least…

We were happy to leave the “snow” in Segovia.  It was two inches deep in places under the poplar trees – which should be renamed un-poplar at this time of year.  The stuff gets everywhere and is very sticky when…

We heard that there was going to be a football match in Madrid at the weekend.  Our site is predicted to be super-full as opposed to just standard-weekend-over-occupied.  So we decided to re-locate to Riaza, about 50 miles further away…

Taking the road south out of our valley, we found a lovely little bakery/cafe in Canencia.  Right on the “main” street.  But “main” is a bit misleading.  In half an hour four bikes and two cars passed us on their…