We found about this place through one of the groundsmen on our campsite who Steve bumps into when he takes Stella for her morning constitutional. The chap (yet to find out his name) and Steve discuss the local birds, wildlife and Steve was delighted to return to the caravan and tell me over breakfast how […]
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Split – Diocletian Palace
Within a few days of arriving at Stobrec Camping, we drove into Split Centre to have a look see. Having been round a one way system twice, incidentally the same one we took when we left the ferry, we found an attended car park without height restriction. Result! It was in the Ferry Port and […]
Read MoreDesperate to Shop
I put this together and thought it was funny – you might disagree: We’ve been as diligent as we can keeping our diary up to date, but what about the days, I hear you ask, that are ‘normal’? For example, take today. It’s raining, which means we’re not on the beach, sunbathing or taking the […]
Read MoreAlmost 6 Months In!
Of the 170 days we have been away, including Thursday 13th October 2020 overnight at Portsmouth for the early sailing the next morning, there have only been two nights where we’ve not slept in our own caravan equipped with our king sized bed. The occasions were the two ferry trips; first from Barcelona to Civitavecchia […]
Read MoreOut of Schengen and into Split
During our 4 month stay in Cabopino, amongst many other wonderful people, we met the lovely couple Phil and Andrea when they produced the first quiz we attended back in November at Jorge’s Bar. When we announced on the Cabopino FB page that we were making our way from Spain through Italy to Split, I […]
Read MoreMagic in the Garden of Elves
We made an appointment for Covid Tests at the Artemisia Laboratory, Rome for 11am Thursday morning 25th March, hopefully with a negative result for each of us, to entre Croatia. The two Lab Medics carrying out the tests were in full PPE gear wearing disposable gloves over their PPE gloves. It was the first time […]
Read MoreHappy Village & Camping – It certainly is!
We try to avoid driving at night, but as the Ferry from Barcelona to Civitavecchia was almost two hours late docking gone 9pm, we didn’t have a choice. As you may remember we have a him and a hers Tom Tom; his is a Tom Tom Camper designed for programming in vehicles towing caravans, positioned […]
Read MoreBuonasera – We made it to Italy
Having boarded the ferry around 9pm Monday evening 16th March and parked up as directed, we unloaded and carried the gear we needed for the twenty hour crossing plus Stella and her bits and pieces. I would have taken a picture, but my hands were full with my rucksack and laptop, my mind full of […]
Read MoreCambrils to Barcelona
On Friday 12th March we checked into La Llosa campsite – Camping La Llosa – Cambrils (camping-lallosa.com) – for three nights’ which is adjacent to the town of Cambrils. The campsite is compact, probably built in the 1960’s as it barely caters for today’s large travelling units, definitely not ours, an 8.5m caravan on the […]
Read MoreCabopino to Elche
On 9th March we checked into the Alannia campsite for three nights which is near Torrevieja. I was not impressed with check in. We arrived just before 6pm, Reception had closed at 5pm, security gave us a map with our plot number. As pleasant as he was we had no information on what was or […]
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