Hello Ladies, I thought I would pop in to say hello from sunny England.
We had a good journey from Spain, a lovely drive to the North.
We left home at 6am and arrived in Albacete at 9am for breakfast, we always stop at the five brothers restaurant, quite empty for a Saturday, it’s usually packed.
I totally forgot to take a photo of our breakfast so I’m using the array of bottles on the back shelf as my ticket to the T party!
They have lots of foodstuff for sale, the boxes on the top looked like a sweet bread type pastry.
Sausages and chorizo, olives etc
Our overnight stop in Burgos wasn’t the best hotel we’ve stayed in, nowhere to have a walk or have food apart from the hotel and no secure parking, annoying as that’s why we booked it!
It was only a two hour drive to Santander although we had some non motorway roads to get back on track but we only had a two hour drive to Santander.
Quite chaotic at the Port, usually we can leave the car and walk across the road into the town for breakfast but the Guardia told my husband that we would be moving to another parking place within half an hour so not enough time to go for a walk, then we moved and sat waiting to board for nearly two hours in 30c heat.
Once we boarded we had a coffee and relaxed, they now have VOD and TV in every cabin although the films were all ones that we’d seen on our last trip.
This is Santander, a part we’ve never seen before, just after we left the Port, looks like the Marina
This is another beach resort across the peninsula, maybe somewhere to stay next time
The sea was as calm as a mill pond as we say so a very relaxing journey.
This is passing the Isle of Wight, Newport, a lovely holiday place an hours ferry crossing from the mainland.
Still a little like the 60’s, we used to go there with our caravan quite a lot before we moved to Spain
These were used in the war, gun emplacements, some have been sold for people to live in and one is a hotel!
They are bigger than they look, some are on like stilts so much higher out of the water.
We arrived too late to see our GS before bed as we were the last to disembark unfortunately but I rang him to say goodnight, the next morning he ran in our bedroom checking we had actually arrived.
I’ve been taking him to school, a fifteen minute walk, sometimes collecting him too, he was quite happy to show me his new school although he doesn’t allow any kisses and we’re not allowed to go into the school gates, now he’s 7 he’s too old for all that stuff apparently!! We’ve also been to watch his football training at the local football team’s ground and also indoor climbing. This afternoon he has soft ball practice after school and then I will be taking him to kick boxing! It’s all go with our GS!
I will try to visit if my iPad lets me, sometimes it tells me I’m not logged in, hope you are all well and enjoying some good weather as we are here in Kent.
Jan x
