Category: 2025
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Lisbon
GK Tours. Day 65 & 66 Tuesday 7th to Wednesday 8th January 2025. Comporta to Lisbon, Portugal & Merida, Spain We had a good night’s sleep in the parking area in Comporta and set off for Lisbon when we were ready. A handy parking area had been recommended to us by our Scottish friend we…
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Carvoeiro & Comporta
GK Tours. Day 63 to 64 Sunday 5th to Monday 6th January 2025. Carvoeiro to Comporta, Portugal Saturday morning we headed off for Carvoeiro to have a good old catch up with Ness & Rob, good friends we haven’t seen for 2 years. Much alcohol and food was consumed as we caught up with events…
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GK TOURS first outing
GK Tours first outing We had set off from home the usual few days early to say goodbye to friends and family, with a few get togethers along the way. A cook-off vying the girls against the boys was the brain child of Jane and Andrew, the first leg of which saw the boys cooking…
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Ferry home via Guingamp and Roscoff
Day 26 & 27 , 31st Oct & 1st Nov Guingamp and Roscoff, France Yesterday’s drive was the longest we have done so far, just under 5 hours including a couple of stops. We picked a small town – Guingamp – that left us an hour or so’s drive to Roscoff the next day. There…
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Montech, Perigueux and Niort
28th to 30th Oct 2025 Montech, Perigueux and Niort, France Reluctantly we left sunny Spain and Roses behind, starting our return journey towards Roscoff. We’ve settled for long drives on the motorways where possible to cut down the time. Late on Tuesday we stopped in another Camping Car Park Aire just outside a village called…
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Roses
Day 20-22, 25th to 27th Oct 2025 Roses, Costa Brava, Spain We did a lot of motorway driving to get to Roses, (a town we had previously visited 4 years ago) in decent time. We were quite surprised at the amount of lorries on the road as it was a Saturday, and those of you…
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Nimes and Port-La-Nouvelle
Day 16 – 19, 21st to 24th Oct 2025 Montrond Les Bains, Nimes and Port-La-Nouvelle, France Since Chambord we have been driving towards the sun. A couple of wet days driving but it wasn’t as bad as some places have had it. We were pleased we had moved on as Storm Benjamin was at his…
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Chateau de Chambord
Day 15, 20th Oct 2025 Chateau de Chambord, Loir-et-Cher, France Deciding which amazing Chateau to visit next is hard as there are so many! We chose the Chateau de Chambord because it is the most visited Chateau in France. Work was started on it in 1519 and became a World Heritage site in 1981. And…
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Villandry
Day 14, 19th Oct 2025 Villandry, Indre-et-Loire, France Checking our next 2 stops we realised that parking in the van would be an issue. With this in mind we chose somewhere completely different. After a small shopping trip to the supermarket we made our way into a new department called Indre-et-Loire with Chateau Villandry as…