Arriving in Santander bright and early to a beautiful sunrise 😎

Sheila and Charlie on deck saying goodbye to Cobh and Ireland 😘 Me and Suzie tucked up in bed 🛌 🤢 Apparently it’s gonna be a rough crossing 🤮

Stopped off at the Rock of Cashel en route to Ringaskiddy. Very windy and freezing 🥶 Dogs didn’t get much of a walk here 🤦🏼‍♀️

I was gutted that we’d missed the turning on of the Christmas lights in Benijófar but we left before they went on. In Spain the lights in all the towns don’t go on until the 6th December which is Constitution Day – a celebration of the day Spain became a democracy and is national holiday….

Well having had a final wander around Ávila we set off for Santander to spend the night there before getting the boat to Cork. No sooner had we checked in did we got a call to say the dang boat was cancelled and wouldn’t be going until Sunday with no guarantee that it would go…

Avila is about an hour and a half north west of Madrid. It is 1117 meters (3665 feet) above sea level – which is higher than Carrauntoohil (the highest mountain in Ireland) and is the highest city in Spain. It has quite an extreme climate, with very hard and long winters, and short summers. We…

Again another late post from the Moors Roadtrip 😎 Travelling down from Seville to Marbella we stopped off for a whistle stop tour of Cadiz and a spot of lunch. Cádiz is an ancient port city in the Andalucia region of southwestern Spain. The home of the Spanish Navy, the port boomed in the 16th-century…

Sorry folks I thought I had published this post ages ago – a bit out of date now, but here goes… Talk about keeping the best till last… Seville was the most wonderful city I have ever visited, it has knocked Zaragoza and Morella off my top spots! There was so much to see that…

Córdoba was a Roman settlement, then colonized by Muslim armies in the eighth century. It became the capital of the Islamic Emirate, and then of the Caliphate of Córdoba, including most of the Iberian Peninsula.  During this period, it became a centre of education and learning, and by the 10th century had grown to possibly…