Tapp's Travels

7 HEADING FOR PORTUGAL South of Plasencia, running alongside the A66 (of Ruta de la Plata fame) is a series of partly built bridges – some of them enormous – and tunnels and cuttings and embankments. A mammoth construction project.…

6 PLACENSIA AND MONFRAGUE AGAIN AND PIORNAL Today is Sunday but I’m a bit behind.  On Friday morning we walked on the disused railway that runs more or less parallel to the new one behind the campsite. Actually, I guess…

15 EAR BUGS, AMERICANS AND ST. EMILION Part 14 was never issued – but NOBODY noticed!  Is there a hint there? I just wish that the photos that I add carefully in the right order would stay where I put…

5 PLACENSIA AND MONFRAGUE PARK Storks must really have welcomed the discovery of electricity. And, in particular, the need to get electrons from A to B. Every pylon we saw on the way South had at least one stork nest…

4 NORTHERN SPAIN Well, now we know why the area is looking so green! It’s varied from drizzly, low cloud to thunderstorms for three days now – and there’s no end in sight. All along the north coast of Spain…

3 SANTILLANA DEL MAR We are really amazed at the neatness and tidiness of the countryside, the houses, the gardens and the towns. It really is soo much better than we were expecting – and it’s sooo green everywhere. The meadows…

2. SANTANDER The Bay of Biscay – and specifically the stories of rough waters in that part of the Atlantic Ocean – have put us off using the Santander crossing for ever. This year Brittany Ferries wanted silly money for…

LAST YEAR! You will have heard of prequels or first chapters of books to come… well, this starts with a sort of “post-prequel”. The first instalment of the messages which weren’t actually written covering our last year’s escapades in France.…