Farewell España 💃

The white cliffs of Dover

After over five months travelling around Spain it was finally time to make our way back home to our home in Sussex. We felt sad to be leaving especially as the weather seemed to have settled, every day was warm and sunny and the wind had finally settled. Spain was doing what it does best by offering fabulous weather!!
We had a truly wonderful trip, visited lots of amazing places and made many new friends. We feel that we have become part of a new community and feel sure we will be meeting up with many of the people we have met along the way, it's all so much easier to keep in touch now with social media - Facebook and Whatsapp etc.

The lovely promenade of Mojacar Playa

We didn't always have an easy time of things, it was challenging trying to book the vehicle in to a garage to have the work done for an urgent safety recall, Google Translate is brilliant if you want to send an email but it's not so easy when you come face to face with someone who doesn't speak English and you don't speak Spanish!! But we got by and managed to get the work done although we did have to spend the night camped up on the Industrial estate for the night so that we could check the van in at 8am! We also had to find a dentist when Keith developed toothache, but we solved that problem easily by travelling to Mojacar where we found an English speaking dentist where we were given excellent treatment.

Islamic arches in the Cathedral of Córdoba

We enjoyed the coastal resorts, revisiting some of our favourite haunts as well as finding new places, but we also travelled inland and enjoyed equally exploring the city of Córdoba as well as some of the less visited areas such as Ubeda. We ventured off the beaten tourist track and found what felt like the 'real' Spain.
Our final week was spent at Castellon de la Plana (one of our favourite haunts!) on the area designated for Motorhomes by the airfield so not only could we enjoy the cycle path right outside the gate but when we were back at base we could watch the light aircraft and parachutists. Every day we headed along the cycle path to the Via Verde from Benicassim to Orepesa, we just didn't tire of it with its beautiful views.

Our last Spanish stopover by the airfield at Castellon 

Whilst we were there we met a couple, Anne and Terry. Anne introduced me to Polarsteps a great app for recording your journey.









I have set it up for our journey home if you want to have a look:
https://www.polarsteps.com/AngelaGardner/648016-home-from-spain?s=27695db8-89fd-41fe-a0f7-18f57e05efce

Back home cycling the disused railway line in Sussex 

And so my blog for this trip comes to an end, but it's certainly not the end of our travels - we are planning our next trip already, inspired by Colin and Sandra, we hope to make the journey across Europe to Greece in 2019 - just watch this space!!