Dober Dan

We're in Slovenia, touring the Julian Alps, which are just breathtaking. Doing lots of exercise - mountain climbing, swimming, kyaking and horse riding (Bethan is a new woman!!). We fast tracked through S. France and Italy, via Lac St Croix (north of Provence), which was just stunning, some say an uncommercialised Grand Canyon (cheers David for the tip off again) - others say an exhausting pedalo experience! Next up was Lago del Garda - not so stunning but still gorgeous, now lake Bohinj before we head to the Croatian Dalmations for some sun.

One phrase to watch out for when driving a camper ..."there's bound to be a garage/petrol station/campsite/supermarket on this road."

Bethan has rediscovered her singing voice.

Bethan has also admitted that the thing she looks forwrd to most is visiting the supermarket. Looks like we'll be house hunting around Sainsbury locations when we get back! (you can take the gal out of the shopping but never the shopping out of the gal!)

Next post will hopefully show some more photos by theme. We can see you're all riveted by the response rate (apart from Mike who is keeping us cheery!) The answer to the caption competition Bethan set on the photo was ... "i'm sure i put the handbrake on! oh well Graham'll never notice!". Maybe there will even be a photo of Audrey, although you wouldn't recognise her under the canoes, skimboard, mountain bikes, climbing equipment, flag of st george ...

Bonjour!

We've arrived in bourgeois S. France and conducting a whirlwind tour from Montpellier to Monaco via the beautiful Provence. We managed to post some pictures from Portugal and Spain, only 3 weeks old but we're catching up! Weather has cooled off after Spain, just a mere 25 degrees here in France... Went to the birthplace of surrealism, Figueria ala Dali town, where we camped between a prostitute and some French gippo's (living surrealism!). Spain and Portugal were fantastic but we discovered the most important things to both countries are:

Farmacia's... forget signposts for really important things - you can always count of seeing at least one per village.

Carrefours that advertise but you cannot find

Big plackards of bulls...

We actually frequented a bullfight in Granada - lots of machoism and waving of neckachiefs but can't see the attraction of watching a bull being out numbered by men in tights(there's gotta be better ways to prove your machismo than dancing with a half dead bull, maybe they should try dancing with the women in the photo's). More updates soon....

What am I thinking????

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Graham striking a pose....

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Audery's smacker...!

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sardines...authentic styley!

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our friends in the south, miguel and manuel

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"gippo ... where's your caravan"

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Dancing ? You asking ? (where's the blokes?)

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Graham & Bethan in the Alhambra

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Sand, sea and sunburn

We´ve managed to cane it around almost the whole of Iberia (without a breakdown). Heading for Barcelona, our last stop before moving onto France but stopped on the way at Denia (north of Benidorm, where Graham insisted on having a kebab on the sea front to fulfill a life´s ambition) for a bit of relaxation after the plentiful city breaks. Sevilla - hot, pretty but spent most of our time looking for a mac mending shop. (Ironically the mac has broken down before the van..) Cordoba - hot, pretty and very Moorish. Granada - hot, pretty and more Moorish. Trekking in the Sierra Nevada almost killed Bethan, but we made it 14km and 700m climb later - hot and exremely pretty but no Moors. Then to the desert and Mini Hollywood (where the spaghetti westerns were shot, making them more paella westerns than spaghetti westerns!) - it rained. Free camped on the beach east of Almeria and spent all night worrying about cops, smugglers and flies! We were bitten badly but not arrested by morning. We´ve stopped comparing number of bites but now compare types of bites, so far mossie, miggie, ant and fleas but not yet snakes, scorpians or dragons.

Pictures will be posted when we get our act together, probably in Barcelona.