Visit to Tangier

Tiny bakers shop. The size is typical of all the local trade premises.

Veg stall in the Souk.

Lunch, lovely local food.

One of the very narrow streets.

Remake of Laurence of Arabia!

Sunset at Cape Trafalgar

Here we are enjoying a drink watching the sunset.The beach at Trafalgar is a 15min walk from the site.

Cordoba

We met up with Geoff & Margaret near Cordoba at a lovely site.


The city itself is fabulous with TheAlcazar & The Mezquita our favourite places. The buildings were amazing as were the gardens.

Travelling to Spain

We left France in search of the sun & crossed into Spain over the Pyrenees & through the Bielsa tunnel It was I'm afraid rather damp.

We travelled to Navajas near Valencia where we stayed for 6 nights. We enjoyed a day out in Valencia itself & enjoyrd browsing around the market.

Trevor certainly enjoyed taking the scenic route not always ideal for 2 large vehicles. We did actually meet a lorry on this narrow road -the Spanish driver had to reverse!!

Meeting up with friends

We met with Trevor & Elaine & stayed at Touzac campsite on the Lot . Lovely site but some rather chilly nights (-2)

Trevor & Derek tried fishing by the river -probably found more life in the bottle!

Montcuq Sept 2009

This is Montcuq the French village in the Southern Lot where we're going to have our house built.

The plot is at the bottom of George & Lynne's garden & we're just waiting for the geometre to sort out the new boundaries & for the maire to look at the result. Hope fully we can then start buiding perhaps around April next year.

The views are fabulous & the natives are very friendly!!

We'll keep you posted.

UK summer 2009

Cardiff Bay visit with Chris & Gill, a dry day!!!!

We visited the UK for 9 weeks in July & August for the BBQ summer-what happened???

We enjoyed seeing all our friends & family & visiting new places.




Here's Emma practising her boules skills with Dad.














I attended a college reunion
at Cyncoed Cardiff 40 years after leaving !!













One of our best days out whilst we stayed in
Newport was a visit to the Big Pit . We had to
put on all the gear & descended by lift to the
coal face. Best of all it was free!!!.

Visiting Elke & Gunter in Bosel Germany

We had a very warm welcome when

we visited our friends in their lovely

home .
We had lots of fun playing Sequence

trying to explain the rules without any German on our part!!

Gunter & Elke took us to a super spa town nearby with a park overlooking

a lake.

We also visited Emden a German port on the North Sea.








Gunter is an expert on the bbq & we enjoyed lots of super meals & wine & beer.

Berlin

Berlin
The Reichstag

The Brandenberg gate

Having tea & cake with Wendy (Emma's friend from university)

Memorial at Sachenhausen concentration camp north of Berlin

Jewish memorial in Berlin

Old church Kaiser Wilhelm, 19th century. Damaged in ww2 & left as a memorial. Modern chapel built next to it.

Section of the Berlin wall still standing

Checkpoint Charlie

Cesky Krumlov

CESKY KRUMLOV a Unesco World heritage site

in southern Bohemia near to the 2 borders of Germany & Austria.

One of the bears supposedly guarding Krumlov Castle

Prague & Cesky Krumlov

Had a lovely 3 days camping with Matt in Cesky Krumlov 3 hours south of Prague. A fabulous historic town, brilliant architecture & famous for it's varied roof designs

The landscape view above is of our campsite beneath the local town.

Derek took these photos in the gents loo at a beautiful shopping centre in Prague

At each urinal there were pictures of girls with either a tape measure, magnifying glass, ruler etc or having expressions ranging from pure delight to extreme disappointment,very intimidating for the poor man!!!

Prague

Spent our first afternoon walking around Prague over Charles bridge & up to the castle before meeting Mat at 5pm. We arranged to meet under the famous clock -not the best time as everybody was watching the characters & listening to the chimes.

Moving on to Prague through France & Germany

Our only stop in Germany was in Munster a little village outside Rothenberg ob der Tauber along the Romantische Strasse-The Romantic Way.

Apparently it runs from north of Nuremburg to the Italian border with lots of places to visit.
Rothenburg is a beautiful old town with lots of super architecture & very clean & tidy. Not a particularly sunny day when we were there!!

The campsite was full of Dutch as are many we've been to-there can't be many left in Holland. We decided to drive straight to Prague from here.

We stayed overnight in an aire in Kayserburg in eastern France close to the German border. A beautiful little town
We watched these storks on their nest precariously perched ontop of this roof. There were at least 2 babies in the nest.

A quick look at the Rhine as we crossed into Germany nearly missed it!!!.

Chilling out in France

St Cirq Lapopie another tourist town overlooking the river Lot with lots of interesting old buildings & plenty of shops!!.
Rocamadour is a beautiful old town built into the rocks. Very popular with tourists.
We visited a local flower festival at Tournon but came away empty handed. Every street in the town was packed out with various stalls-lots of bargains to be had.

Met a super English couple living nearby- John & Liz-a retired primary school teacher & a CDT teacher!! They live in a beautiful farmhouse to which they invited us back for lunch

George & Derek unwinding on the terrace & discussing the merits of the local vin rouge.

Every Sunday morning there is a thriving market in Montcuq with Loads of stalls selling things from clothes household items to the local produce like bread cheeses vegetables & of course the local wines.

The Cafe du Centre is a popular meeting place for coffees. This day there was a folk group entertaining the tired shoppers.

Just browsing in this picture -didn't buy a thing!!