We had intended to make our way from Santander across to Portugal and then over to Madrid (we were due to fly out from Madrid). But we got to the Picos and just sort of stopped. Our first port of call was Lebeña, a small hamlet on the approach to the Picos. We had the camp spot to ourselves and […]
Sometimes you just need a break from the endless grind of truck life! I’m joking of course, but this holiday was booked before we started our overlanding adventure. Honest. Really! We parked Big Bertha at the Iberican Overlanders and departed Madrid bound for West Papua in Indonesia for a cruise around Raja Ampat onboard the Ombak Putih. We had a […]
We recently had occasion to help out some fellow campers. It has been very wet in our part of Spain and it’s so easy to get stuck on grass in a front wheel drive camper; even on the level. And so it came to be the other day when a couple of campers ventured into the grass overflow carpark and, […]
Yes we do, and very comfortable it is too. Just think of it as a small bedsit – compact and bijou. It has everything one really needs; a fixed bed, kitchen, dining area and bathroom. Our bathroom has a full sized toilet with a china bowl, a good sized sink with a large bathroom cabinet and mirrored doors, a heated […]
So, we had a couple of months of waiting before we could go anywhere – waiting for Big Bertha to arrive, waiting for Dave to pass his HGV test, waiting for our belongings to arrive from Malaysia, waiting for Amazon deliveries to furnish our new home, waiting for the ferry to deposit us outside of the UK… But eventually we […]