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Željava Air Base, Zadar and Pag island
Željava Air Base Its felt like a very long 3 months since our return from Spain and I was in need of an adventure so I packed the van and headed south through Slovenia and Northern Croatia to the Bosnian border. The drive there was quite surreal and somewhat unnerving as this area was where most of the heavy fighting was done during the Yugoslavian war, and even though it…
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Monte Lussari – Italy
With the mountain weather pretty stormy the last weeks in Austria we were desperate to get outdoors but struggling with choice. I didn’t particularly want to fight with the weather and I also did not want to repeat mountains just for the sake of it. So I looked a little further away for a change. Having seen the classic pictures of Monte Lussari on Instagram I thought it was time…
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Winter hiking
We are now deep into the winter and the conditions become more stable as it gets colder with less avalanche risk, so I thought I would share some winter tours of my favourite local (ish) mountains. The mountains in winter can be a scary proposition for some but if you have good summer hillwalking experience, good fitness levels, the right equipment and most importantly, a good grasp and understanding of…
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Costa del Sol
Getting back on track after our amazing weeks detour and return to Cabo de Gata, we headed south for the lovely out of season town of Nerja and found a beach side parking for a few days. From here we explored Nerja which at the end of November had a British retirement home feel to it. Much like a more relaxed and cleaner version of Benidorm. We also visited the…
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Cabo de Gata
After our amazing time inland and in the mountains we returned to the coastline at Motril. This would be the week of Leela’s birthday but our plans of staying a whole week at the naturist camp Almanat would have to be put on hold as the campsite had suffered badly during the flooding a couple of weeks earlier and were still trying to clean up the mess. So we moved…
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Andalusia – Part II
First stop inland, after getting new front brake pads for the van in Almeria, was the Tabernas desert. We parked next to the very popular Hollywood theme park and hiked 15km all around this quite marvellous landscape. Many movies have been filmed here over the years and its still a very popular location these days. We saw the dilapidated set of El Condor, the oasis of Lawrence of Arabia and…
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Andalusia – Part I
Andalusia has been the highlight of this trip for me whilst planning it the last four years. It’s a region that I know quite well after spending many mountain bike and hiking trips there as well as time on the coastline. But I had never travelled this far South in a campervan before so this would be a very new experience. Leaving Guardamar we had planned to spend at least…
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Costa Blanca
Having very reluctantly left our beach parking after a glorious week, we were on our way down the coast an hour to spend a few days at Vila Joiosa. We also needed a few days at a campsite with facilities so that I could fix a broken water valve connection on the boiler. We stayed at Alicante Imperium which was a nice, clean and reasonably priced retirement home and repaired…
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Valencia
Leaving Catalunya we headed into the mountains surrounding Valencia for a week of hiking and searching for rivers and beautiful swimming pools. The first stop after a tortuous drive was Fuente de los Baños in the town of Montanejos. This is a natural (luke) warm spring favoured by the locals of the valley and has magical youth capturing powers that we were both keen to try out! The pool is…
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Catalunya
After the excitement of Cap d’Adge we would have liked to have gone a little deeper into the mountains, but unfortunately the weather wasn’t in our favour so we decided to head to Cerét a little earlier than planned. This town has the museum of modern art as well as apparently the best street market in the whole of France. Quite a claim! We arrived on a dank Friday evening…
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