Salamanca
29th and 30th April 2024
The old town of Salamanca has been UNESCO listed because its so well preserved….just very beautiful.
Salamanca Motor Museum
This small but has some great items.
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Avila
Avila
27 April 2024
Avila is a walled town - the wall goes all the way around. The wall is 2.7km long and you can walk around the top. Dead legs by the time we were done.
The town also has 7 cathedrals but just visited a few.
The park where we stayed
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Santiago De Compostela
Santiago De Compostela
22nd and 23 April 2024.
Wow. What an awesome place. History plus. We had a fabulous time, wandering around the small streets, doing the cathedral, museums, restaurants and coffee shops.
This is a YouTube link that explains Santiago way better than I can..Link
Camino Walk
Santiago is also one end of the ‘Camino walk’. The walk starts in Oviedo in northern-eastern Spain and takes pilgrims on a 311km journey from Oviedo to Santiago. Since we’ve landed here in Spain we’ve been noticing lots of backpackers walking the tracks and roadways. There must be 10’s of thousands of them walking. I sat and watched group after group wander into the main square in Santiago, some sang, some screamed and yelled with joy, others just walked in and laid down on the middle of the square and spent time looking at the cathedral. One said he’d been walking for 40 days, another 33 days, etc. A very joyful place.
The walk is also known as the ‘original way’, it is the route that has been in use since at least the 9th century, when Spain was under Moorish control.
Santiago Square and Cathedral
23rd April
Went for a walk around the local markets and then had lunch at an amazing restaurant that we’d been recommended..the octopus was to die for.
Museo del Pueblo Gallego-Santiago
A museum of historical Spanish items. The museum is connected to a church, so while wandering about the museum you move in and out of the church. Lots to see.
The museum has a triple spiral staircase….very cool to see.
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Astorga
Astorga
19-04-2024
I thought I’d split the videos into 3. I have 500 pictures taken by my Babe. So the first one is the town and us and the other two are the cathedral and the palace.
Cave of Altamira
Cave of Altamira
14th April 2024
The Cave of Altamira is a cave complex, located near the historic town of Santillana del Mar in Cantabria, Spain. It is renowned for prehistoric cave art featuring charcoal drawings and polychrome paintings of contemporary local fauna and human hands.
Santillana Del Mar
Santillana Del Mar
13th April 2024
The town is just so beautiful, full of quaint eateries, stone buildings, etc. An awesome day!
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Ferry - Plymouth to Santander
England to Spain
10th of April 2024
The weather in England was 11 Deg, raining and fog. Spain was bright blue sky’s with a temperature in the high 20’s.
The Ferry is huge like a cruse ship. The room was very small, but ok for one night.
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Bailey get an upgrade
Bailey gets an upgrade
Monday 8th of April
New decals on the Motorhome. In good Perry style we purchased the transfers last year and didn’t get around to installing them until now. Aussie Aussie Aussie!
Windsor Castle
Windsor Castle
Well the ‘Next Life’ Continues.!
We were going to head over to Somerset, however we didn’t realise that there is rail strikes in England. So we thought we’d fill in the day at Windsor….tourists town.
We got some great pictures of the outside of the castle, however there are no photo’s allowed from inside of the castle.
In the chapel there is Queen Elizabeth’s ledger stone on the floor marking her burial place in the royal vault, which everyone lined up to go passed.
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