Page 8 – Hi, my blog is a record of our year(ish) long tour of Europe, an idea sprung on me by my husband last year. A word of warning to anyone reading this who doesn't know me, I have an inability to use one word when a hundred will do, in fact this blog is the antithesis of Twitter! It also includes EXTENSIVE use of the words beautiful, pretty, nice, gorgeous, tasty, lovely and wonderful amongst others! I'll attempt to use some different words occasionally to ring the changes.

24th March 2017. Evora, Portugal.

We had a slow start this morning, it was fun and felt slightly strange to be parked in a supermarket

The weather was supposed to be rotten today but when I looked out of the window I saw blazing sunshine

We had intended leaving today but it is SO beautiful and SO peaceful here (except for the intermittent ringing the

Our destination for today was Castelo de Monsaraz which I’d happened across while I was looking at the French app

We reluctantly left the beautiful stop over at Almonaster La Real this morning and made our way towards the border

We were going to sit and work in the van today but the mosque looked so interesting and the weather

I dragged my weary body out of bed, Darren was bright and breezy having slept very well, lucky devil. Our

The morning started reasonably early because we needed to leave before 10.30 a.m. when we’d have had to pay for

We had an early start this morning, we wanted to catch the 9.05 train into Jerez and we wanted to

It was my birthday today. Happy birthday to me! Darren very kindly made me a special fruit salad for breakfast