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Asturias!!
  • Mark Holbrook
  • Kari Blackmore
  • Mark Holbrook
  • Kari Blackmore

Asturias!!

Et 49-dags eventyr af Mark & Kari Læs mere
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    8. juni 2025
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    Off!

    8. juni 2025, Spanien ⋅ ☀️ 32 °C

    So the off! We stayed overnight at the polygono in Sanlúcar de Guadiana so that we could pop back home for all the things that would be forgotten (14 items......quite the record) then we hitched up (or so it seemed....) and headed up the hill to El Granado just to hace the caravan fall off the back! Anyway... the auto brake worked and it didn't speed off down the hill and destroy the roundabout which would have been a shame in all sorts of ways.Læs mere

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    Fuenteheridos

    8.–10. jun. 2025, Spanien ⋅ ☀️ 35 °C

    Arrived at Fuenteheridos where all seemed calm after the excitements of the caravan-falling-off-on-the-hill thing. But this calm photo only preceded the horror of having to reverse into a right turning place as opposed to a left turning space....Why? you ask....well it seemed before my initiation this afternoon in the calor of cuarenta grados that left and right (Chilarity?) were the same....how wrong I was! The emergency spring loaded brake handle which we recently made such valuable use of sticks out on the right side of the tow hitch.... perfectly placed to punch a neat hole into the bumper of any new Subaru trying to get anywhere near full lock....So New Burden on Pitch selection....rather like asking for a starboard side berth in a marina I supposeLæs mere

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    Plasencia

    10.–11. jun. 2025, Spanien ⋅ ⛅ 33 °C

    Well not actually Plasencia but Malpartida de Plasencia. We are in a huge deserted campsite with enough room to manoeuvre that even we can moor without undue levels of screaming. But why call it Malpartida? We of course have bad bits of places but we don't call them 'bad bit of London'...we use other words like 'Essex'Læs mere

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    Camping El Astral

    11. juni 2025, Spanien ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C

    So a lovely campsite with trees and drive-through pitches so for once we arrive without screaming at each other so out to the on-site-ridiculously-expensive restaurant to prolong the unexpected bonhomie as long as possible. Staying here two nights so we can visit the medieval town nearbyLæs mere

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    Tordesillas

    12. juni 2025, Spanien ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C

    Well this is where the treaty was signed to divide the world between Portugal and Spain......it is said that Portugal already knew about the 'bulge' of Brazil so it was a diplomatic triumph for them. Also they had a bull festival here where they chased the poor bloody bull with lances and when it is cornered.........well, you can guess the rest and it doesn't end well for the bull. Interesting place but with a disaster of town planning.....now half the buildings are derelict and the other half dingy nightclubs.....now also derelict.Læs mere

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    Covadonga

    14. juni 2025, Spanien ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C

    In 722 the first king of Asturias, Pelagius, defeated armies under the Umayyad banner and this victory is regarded as the start of the reconquest of Spain. There is a holy cave here with royal Tombs and yes, it was raining!Læs mere

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    The Witch's Cave

    17. juni 2025, Spanien ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C

    We crossed the bridge over the top of the old drowned Riaño to the far bank and took a walk to the Witch's Cave in the Hazel Forrest. People still leave votive offerings there

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    Zoom in to see layer upon layer of drawings

    Ojo Guareña

    19. juni 2025, Spanien ⋅ ☁️ 29 °C

    The geology here of a limestone slab being deposited over impervious rock has created the condition for a river to form underground and carve out a huge gallery over millions of years....over 110 km of tunnels, one end of which is accessible from an opening in the cliff. Man has used the caves since the time of the Neanderthals. So all the history here is incredibly muddled.....prehistoric cave paintings now mostly hopelessly lost and defaced by Bronze age, Roman and Middle ages graffiti. The chamber closest to the cliff opening has become a sanctuary covered in 18th century paintings of martyrs.Læs mere

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    Orbaneja de Castillo

    20. juni 2025, Spanien ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C

    So there was a navigation slip today.....well not a slip really it is just that Google doesn't really tell you whether it's proposed route is sensible or even possible towing a caravan....so today was all about towing our van up, down and through the most marvelous but completely unsuitable terrain including through this absolute gem of a placeLæs mere

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    St. John

    24. juni 2025, Spanien ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C

    The 23 June is 'St. John's Eve' when the Spanish set fires....of course they don't do it much where we live in Andalucía because they would set the whole place afire but further north they do set fires.....mainly on beaches and headlands. Now St. John's Eve being yesterday means that today is the feast of St. John (Baptist apparently....I had to look it up) as the whole world would know except for us who chose that very day to go to this church of St. John along with several thousand other people. I had to edit out an awful lot of them to get the 'empty' church on a headland that I wanted for my pic.Læs mere

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    Coral Cave

    25. juni 2025, Spanien ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C

    Well we think that is what it should have been called but officially Cueva de Pozalagua. What makes this place so fantastic is that the stalagmites and stalactites do not do the normal Up/Down thing but some of them zig zag all over the place....a process not clearly understood because there are only 4 caves in the whole world where this happens. Amongst all the more fantastical explanations is the more prosaic one of these zig-zags only get one litre of water a year....such a low amount that the water never forms drops, so it never experiences full gravity, so it wanders around and the mineral deposits follow. This cave also never had an entrance but was discovered when the quarry above it broke through.Læs mere

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    Suances

    28. juni 2025, Spanien ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C

    We have adored Cantabria and we went to the coast to see what it was like....well it was a perfectly good beach but crowded and noisy. The campsite was perfectly good too but the most exciting thing about it was this sluice set into a backdrop of hydrangeasLæs mere

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    Ruente

    29. juni 2025, Spanien ⋅ ☀️ 32 °C

    This broad, long fertile valley we are in has these beautiful little villages in it, Ruente is one of those. Stunning place.

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    Barcena Mayor

    1. juli 2025, Spanien ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C

    Very pretty cobbled village with the foresight to keep most (including ours) of the cars out....lots of pictures in the shops of it buried under many feet of snow so definitely not on our list of 'would like to live here'Læs mere

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    Cueva El Soplao

    2. juli 2025, Spanien ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C

    We have had rain!!! And fog and low cloud and...believe it or not...some coolth...so we went underground. There are lots of caves in Cantabria, either those that neanderthals found an awful long time ago or those found by mining operations. This cave is one of the latter types so no proto-human graphics here but incredible cavern and galleries. Also no photos allowed so these were taken very surreptitiously as a video and then frame grabbed so not pin sharp I am afraidLæs mere

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    Santo Toribio de Liébana

    3. juli 2025, Spanien ⋅ 🌩️ 22 °C

    This is just outside Potes and as far as I can see is closer to Potes than Liébana but that aside it's claim to fame is that when Constantine's mum went walkabout she found the true cross in 320 AD and a bit of it......a big bit of it.....found its way here where it is incased in a big gold box. The buildings look very fresh but in fact the place dates from about 720 ADLæs mere

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    Pechón

    5. juli 2025, Spanien ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C

    Run up to the coast and along part of the Ruta del Carés which we couldn't walk because of Kari's on-going foot problem. The loveliness of this place just goes on and on

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