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6 week summer holiday pt 4
SUP was brilliant fun, we all managed to stand in our one hour session and the views from Sandy Bay were incredible, a great angle to see Gibraltar from and a glorious sunny day to top it off. Will be looking out for more spots to do paddle boarding in future, great work out for…
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6 week summer holiday pt 3
Limitezero are the company who offer the zip line between countries. You get a lift to the top of a hill in a 4wd and zip line down the hill on the Spanish side and across the river Guadiana, finishing on the Portuguese side with a boat completing the circuit. I am not a fan…
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6 week summer holiday pt2
Lazy first day chilling in the campsite in the Portuguese sun, first time on the trip that we have just relaxed and enjoyed the sun and peace. Headed into Porto in the evening for dinner and port, of course. On arriving in Porto there were lots of barricades and what looked like stages and grandstands,…
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6 week summer holiday pt 1
After some last minute packing and remembering all the things we forgot to do we finally left Glasgow about midday on Tuesday 8th May. Hotfooting it as far as the Birmingham ring roads before we hit any major traffic, not too shabby. Taking advice from my dad we took the toll road and boosted through,…
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Europe in 90 days. Part 7. The finale.
5549.3 miles. That is the total number of miles we drove from Glasgow and back to Glasgow. Phew. I must say sorry here to poor Julie who had to drive the final 4 days as I chattered gobbledegook from the passenger seat, but more on that at the end. The day after my last post…
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Europe in 90 Days. Part 6.
3 weeks since my last post, and this one nearly didn’t happen but some questionable antics with some electrical tape and a bit of copper wire and my laptop charger is working again, woohoo! We left Split and headed north to a small town called Biograd, it’s really small but the campsite was huge and…
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Europe in 90 days. Part five.
We have passed the halfway point, it’s a strange feeling, like we are running out of time, but we have seen and done so much in the first half that if we continue in the same way then another half of this will be brilliant, but it still feels like the end is nigh, best…
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Europe in 90 days. Part four.
Before the trip we thought the better campsites would be the more expensive ones. Our budget is 70 Euros a day, this is for food, accommodation and anything else we need day to day, fuel is separate, any extra notes get rolled over to a fun fund which has so far been wiped out twice,…
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Europe in 90 days. Part three.
This week has been all about the Bavarian Alpine Road, since my last blog we have been mostly adventuring in the mountains; first stop Schiedegger to see the waterfalls, they were much nicer than those at Triberg, less touristy for one but also massive drops into large caves, much like a shampoo advert, still all…
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Europe in 90 days. Part Two.
When I was a teenager in Redcar I used to ‘mountain bike’ all the time, I would take my far too big for me bike and ride the roads and farm tracks in the countryside, or ride to Marske-by-the-sea and take the woods to Saltburn, or I would cycle up the big hills to Guisborough…