A Trip to the Farm
This was a trip for Sue and Sharon and was Sharon‘s first visit to see Ben at the mushroom farm.
The Return
For our last morning, we decided to focus on a scientific theme. We needed to decide between the Leonardo da Vinci Science Museum or the Leonardo 3 exhibition. Both had fantastic reviews. We opted for the latter as it was much closer and we fancied a stroll back to the main thoroughfare near the Duomo […]
Fashion and Food
We got up bright and early with a view to getting to the Pinacoteca da Brera as near as possible to its 8.30 opening time. We expected it to be busy for the first day of the Armani exhibition. This exhibition was planned by Armani himself before he died on September 4th this year, so […]
Up the Duomo
On Tuesday, we had an indulgent lie in after our long day on Monday and then headed off for our first planned activity which was to be the art gallery in the Brera District. (Pinacoteca di Brera). The weather was looking OK .. for now! We set off on our half hour walk to the […]
A Protest in Milan
We went to bed early on Sunday night and set the alarms for 4:30 a.m. We woke up at about 3am and our bodies just seemed to say get up and go … no point sleeping any more. So after about 30 minutes of trying to get back to sleep we got up and got […]
Chilling on the Beach
The weather was not quite as nice this morning, but we knew it was improving in the afternoon, so we had a slow start to the day. As this was the last full day of our trip, we had decided to have a relaxing day by the coast. Dave was feeling particularly enthusiastic about boosting […]
Meet up with Iker and his family
Today we got up early to get showered and presentable for our trip to San Sebastian to meet our ex student Iker and his family. Dave opted for the twisty, scenic route to our meeting point in San Sebastian. There were loads of cyclists out for their morning work-out. Quite a few of them were […]
Zarautz
We headed off early as planned and were on the road by 8.30 – early for us!! it was quite a long journey to Zarautz today and we decided to take the main roads, several of which were toll roads. We had two stops on the way and the tolls added up to about €16 […]
A “Gorge”ous Walk
Dave found a nice walk on Alltrails about a half an hour drive away. Camino natural del Guadalaviar. We packed up the van, grabbed a quick breakfast in the campsite café and headed off to the start point. We were quite surprised amongst all this countryside to suddenly see an airport. We discovered that this […]
Albarracín
We decided to do the river walk this morning. It’s called the Paseo fluvial del Guadalaviar and skirts the edge of the town, passing an old medieval mill (Molino del Rey) along the way and giving alternative views back to the city. It was a beautiful walk, steep in parts and leading to a great […]