T is for Too Long

 Hello Ladies, 

Long time no T, It’s been quite a while since I last joined the T party,  actually I was quite shocked to see it was last June, with the heat and the amount of holiday makers that arrived where we live we decided that we had to stop walking and having breakfast out so I didn’t have any new photos to show and it was even too hot to go into my craft room so I just gave up and spent my days reading and chilling by the pool.

We did go to the UK last August as we had already booked a ferry thinking we would taking our GS to school, thank goodness we took the chance as it seems we wont be able so see them for a while yet. we decided to leave a day early to escape the heat, we thought we would drive just over half way to Bilboa and enjoy the aircon in the car.

We booked a hotel in Aranda de Duero which is just north of Madrid, the hotel was amazing but the rooms could have done with a spruce up, our room overlooked the vineyard.

 

The hotel foyer had all the old items used in the vineyard.

 

 

 

 

Obviously it was all about social distancing so breakfast wasn’t a buffet but there was plenty of choice .

We drove the couple of hours up to Bilboa to a hotel for our last night in Spain, it was the cleanest hotel I have ever stayed in, the couple who ran it were really lovely, we felt sorry for them as they only had one other couple staying there, apparently they have lost nearly all there bookings due to the virus. 

 

 

 

The room wasn’t  massive and didn’t have brilliant views but the shower was big enough for a whole family.

It was quite odd as at breakfast we had plastic gloves to wear while making our own toast whilst wearing our masks of course and choosing our food, also all the cutlery, cereal etc was all in plastic bags, 

We enjoyed our ferry crossing as usual, calm seas, we had to stay in the car until we were called to our cabin, we were one of the last to get on the boat, by the time we had paid for WIFI and got to our cabin we were already sailing. View of Bilboa, not the most thrilling views from the boat as it’s the industrial part of the city.

The first two weeks we had to quarantine, after filling in forms to enter the UK no one had been in contact to check that we are staying indoors, a bit annoying when you read about people walking into the country by the thousands and most likely not bothering to quarantine at all. We did enjoy spending time with our family and meeting our GSs new school friends during the last week as he had just started school.

Sadly our son in San Francisco had his flights cancelled last June and our flights to see them in October were also cancelled, we were lucky that we had all our money refunded by BA and Brittany Ferries let us move our crossing free of charge so we still have one crossing already paid for waiting to be used, eventually!

We are still in a mini lockdown but life goes on and we have managed to get all our jobs in the garden done as they had been put off for so long due to keep going away to visit family.

we can get takeaway coffee so my ticket to the T party is my cup, quite a cheerful one I think.

 

My computer is going into the workshop for a few days to be cleaned and updated so I will say bye for now so I can unplug everything ready to go tomorrow, hope you are all keeping safe and well, 

 Looking forward to visiting you all to see what exciting things you are up to.

Jan x