T is for Trip

Good morning and Happy T Day from England! We had a good journey and a arrived a little earlier than we thought, we were off the boat and through customs within half and hour and on our way, it was rainy which wasn’t helpful when you are driving on the opposite side of the road to normal and trying to listen to directions from the sat Nav, the traffic was awful, plus roadworks which really didn’t help!

I thought you might like to see a few photos from our journey through Spain and on the ferry.

We left home at 5.30 am and made good time to Albecete where we stopped for breakfast. I had bacon and sliced tomatoes’a la plancha’ doesn’t look much but it was delicious and the bread was fresh from the oven and Steve had the usual, sausages!

The shop inside the restaurant selling cheeses and baked goods

Two hours later we had reached just south of Madrid and time for a quick coffee, not too busy this time of year!

Thankfully the snow from the previous week had gone from the road through the mountain pass, you can see it’s only on the top of mountains

Our last stop before the hotel was here in Lerma, just a quick coffee and off we went.

This was on the dockside In Bilboa, that’s our ship just arrived, two hours late due to storms in the Bay of Biscay, luckily the storm had died down a little so by the time we woke up the next morning it was calm again and amazingly they had made up the time so we arrived on time in Portsmouth.

We treated ourselves to breakfast in the restaurant, orange juice, breakfast was eggs, bacon, sausage, hash brown, mushrooms and toast, a pot of tea and croissants with jam, a very nice treat and my drink for this weeks T Day.

Inside the restaurant, we had a window seat but not much to see in the middle of the English Channel.

We spent Sunday out with our GS , first at soft play as the weather was cold and wet and then at the ice cream parlour , it’s been revamped since our last visit and GS was most impressed by the lights as they look like balloons and flowers!

We are off to Canterbury today to shop for some things to take home, mainly shortbread to take back for our friends in Spain, the restaurant owner asked when we would be going back as they are the best biscuits he’s ever had! Fingers crossed my link works this week, thank you Elizabeth for sorting it out for me yet again last week. Happy T Day Jan x