Monthly Archives: August 2012

We arrived at the hotel late afternoon; it was about 25 minutes drive from our property, so we got that right.  Finding the actual hotel in Covilhã wasn’t too hard either, there only seemed to be one main road up … Continue reading →

We were following the same route that we have done at the end of 2011, crossing from Newhaven to Dieppe on the ferry, and then driving down through France and Spain into Portugal. The plan was to complete it over … Continue reading →

Finally it was time to get the car ready. The first thing was to give the car a good clean, both inside and out. Then it was time to look at that huge pile of equipment I had collated over … Continue reading →

In the run up to the August trip, whilst we fully intended to have some R & R time, plus get a lot of clearing down, we also wanted to organise seeing the architect, seeing the builder, I also wanted … Continue reading →