Lisa Bolton

Living in Sydney I’m a grandmother of 5 littlies. I enjoy walking and yoga and travelling. I have an obsession with the Camino de Santiago and would like to walk another Camino through Spain someday. Message

TMB then Spain and Portugal
- Oct 8, 2022, 5:42pm · ⛅ 13 °C Altitude: 133 m
  England Cotswold District Bourton on the Water 51.901313, -1.76350551°54’5” N 1°45’49” W
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Day38
The West Midlands
October 8 in England ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C
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Visited the final resting place of Jems Mum Edith in the garden where her beloved brother is also laid to rest. She always did want to be back in England and now she is…..Had a lovely lunch with Jems cousins Sarah and Stuart afterwards. Next day Went to the other side of Birmingham to see the Black Country Living Museum which was fantastic. Best museum ever. So fun to see how people lived in that time. Said hello to Tipton and I think the place Mum said goodbye to when they immigrated to Australia in 1956.
Then, drove to the Cotswolds for our last night and day wandering around the pretty old stone villages.

NOW WE ARE AT HEATHROW! Excited to go home. Great trip. 💕💕💕💕💕💕💕👏👏👏👏 6 COUNTRIES, plenty history, architecture and general eyeballing! See ya next time Penguin lovers. XxRead more
Looking forward to your return! [Riz]
10/10/22Reply
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Love the English villages it’s all been beautifully preserved, so much history.
10/11/22Reply
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Where dis
10/12/22Reply
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TMB then Spain and Portugal
- Oct 6, 2022, 9:46am · ⛅ 12 °C Altitude: 57 m
  England South Lakeland District Ambleside 54.431583, -2.96228954°25’54” N 2°57’44” W
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I wandered lonely as a cloud
October 6 in England ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C
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…….that floats on high…. Ok enough you get it. Wordsworth country. We’re in the Lake District after flying from Lisbon to Manchester yesterday and driving up here in the afternoon. No daffodils but beautiful rolling hills and stone walls. Saw where Wordsworth is buried, the house he lived in plus Dove Cottage and Museum. Dove Cottage where he lived and wrote a lot of his poems. Was fantastic. It was a full day where we did what is expected. Ie ate scones with jam and cream and took a country stroll. Gazed upon herds of black faced sheep that dot the countryside. Think the breed is Herdwick. It’s also Derwent coloured pencil land. It’s a good time to come here, colours of autumn makes me want to get some pencils and start colouring in. Also…. plenty of hiking shops and I admit to spending a bit getting some great waterproof gloves and a few other things. Ready for our next hiking adventure. 👏😊 (am going to need to reconsider giving up hiking 😬)Read more
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😄
10/7/22Reply
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Oh dear……
10/7/22Reply
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Sounds like you’re having the trip of a lifetime! Glad you’re reconsidering giving up hiking 😂😂😂
10/7/22Reply
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🤪🤪
10/7/22Reply
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Windermere ! So beautiful home also of Beatrix Potter Too true his words on ermersing oneself in nature
10/8/22Reply
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TMB then Spain and Portugal
- Oct 2, 2022, 4:30pm · ☀️ 29 °C Altitude: 85 m
  Portugal Lisbon District Socorro Bairro Alto University of Lisbon Botanical Garden 38.720085, -9.15038738°43’12” N 9°9’1” W
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Cathedrals and Alcazars
October 2 in Portugal ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
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Seville was so impressive. The cathedral so enormous our photos couldn’t even capture it. Of course we climbed to the top of it though and looked around the alcazar marvelling at the beauty of the architecture and gardens . Yesterday landed in Lisbon. Took the sightseeing bus this morning.Read more
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Stunning architectural style
10/2/22Reply
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Wow all that looks fabulous Lisa, the architecture is unreal. Enjoy!! ❤️❤️❤️
10/3/22Reply
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Portuguese tarts 😋
10/4/22Reply
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🤣🤣
10/4/22Reply
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TMB then Spain and Portugal
- Sep 27, 2022 · ☀️ 23 °C Altitude: 733 m
  Spain Andalusia Ronda Parroquia Santa María la Mayor 36.73798, -5.1648236°44’17” N 5°9’53” W
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The point of the trip is
September 27 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
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Un espresso y un cafe con leche y agua con gas por favor. #Language skills 💃💃💃💃💃💃💃
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So amazing mum! Sorry I’m only catching up on the photos now!! 😍😍😍
9/27/22Reply
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Wow
9/27/22Reply
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Wow!
9/28/22Reply
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TMB then Spain and Portugal
- Sep 26, 2022, 11:48am · ⛅ 17 °C Altitude: 696 m
  Spain Andalusia Ronda El Tajo Gorge 36.74086, -5.16647336°44’27” N 5°9’59” W
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Castles on hills and Ronda
September 26 in Spain ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C
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Took a drive through endless olive groves and windy roads through another town with a Castle on a hill and one with everything built into the side of a hill. Jem looooooves the crumbling ruins. He loves imagining the marauding Christians in the past charging through to capture the castles and send the Moors packing from Europe. (Or whatever went on, just boy stuff, fighting and armies and strategy)Read more
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Ha
9/27/22Reply
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I’ve been to quite a few places in Spain but Ronda looks like something else! So beautiful
9/27/22Reply
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Falsely imprisoned
9/27/22Reply
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TMB then Spain and Portugal
- Sep 25, 2022, 2:41pm · ⛅ 24 °C Altitude: 787 m
  Spain Andalusia Granada Realejo-San Matías Carmen de los Martires 37.174858, -3.5850537°10’29” N 3°35’6” W
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Day25
Generalife Gardens
September 25 in Spain ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C
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Went back up to the Alhambre today to look around these gardens. The summer palace of the Caliphs. Very beautiful and loads of tourists to dodge. Really wanted to go to the Hammam Spa today too but it was booked out. 😌. We went to one in Cordoba and had a massage plus all the hot and cold pools and steam room treatments. It was divine. We are still not recovered from all the hiking we’ve done. Our legs don’t like any of the hills much after what we already did. 🥾🏔🏔🏔🏔🤪Read more
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😍😍😍😍
9/27/22Reply
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TMB then Spain and Portugal
- Sep 24, 2022 · ⛅ 27 °C Altitude: 700 m
  Spain Andalusia Granada Sacromonte Paseo de los Tristes 37.178768, -3.59059737°10’44” N 3°35’26” W
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Granada
September 24 in Spain ⋅ ⛅ 27 °C
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Full on sightseeing mode here. Visited Montefrío and the Castle at Almodóvar del Rio. We have a driver take us to these two places and stopped at a couple castles on a hill. Today though was the visit to the Alhambra. Fortified citadel, palace and gardens overlooking the city of Granada.Read more
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Glorious
9/24/22Reply
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Looks magnificent, such history, the buildings are unreal. Glad to see you both looking so happy. Xxx
9/25/22Reply
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Happiness!!!
9/27/22Reply
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🤩🤩🤩
9/27/22Reply
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TMB then Spain and Portugal
- Sep 20, 2022, 12:31pm · ☀️ 27 °C Altitude: 114 m
  Spain Andalusia Cordova Universidad De Córdoba / Facultad de Filosofía Y Letras 37.880039, -4.78110337°52’48” N 4°46’52” W
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Day20
Cordoba
September 20 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
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Some pics from our visit to the Mezquita today. Truly beautiful and awe inspiring. Cathedral and former mosque.
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My gosh, didn’t know they knew how to give the finger back then !😀
9/21/22Reply
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Those calves look good
9/21/22Reply
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Fit as a trout
9/24/22Reply
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TMB then Spain and Portugal
- Sep 19, 2022 · ⛅ 26 °C Altitude: 670 m
  Spain Madrid Chueca Plaza de Vazguez de Mella 40.418987, -3.69759540°25’8” N 3°41’51” W
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Day19
Madrid
September 19 in Spain ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
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Woke up to snow on the mountains in Chamonix just as we’re ready to go. It was a fond farewell to a lovely town. Had dinner on the last night with our newfound TMB friends from Colorado and Seattle. Couldn’t have asked for a nicer group of trekkers and we will miss them. So we zipped over to Madrid where it is lovely and warm. We’ve enjoyed a couple of days here just wandering around, took a tour on the sightseeing bus as you do. Slept looong hours in a our hotel. We’ve been fully in recovery mode after the TMB. Scoffing cafe con leche, empanadas and tapas daily here. Not much in the way of photos to show. Went wandering and found a book each in the English section of a Spanish bookshop. Can’t be without books. Jem is donating his big leather hiking boots as he has no room for them in his case now. They’re pretty heavy and he will be needing some lighter ones for the future treks. (Xmas?) His toenails are black and he’ll lose them for sure. This may be the real reason for better boots. 😜Read more
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Love this
9/19/22Reply
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Oh lord Ted got a blacky from that trek too
9/20/22Reply
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Understandable but glad I didn’t
9/20/22Reply
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TMB then Spain and Portugal
- Sep 14, 2022, 4:00pm · ☁️ 16 °C Altitude: 1,273 m
  Switzerland Valais Trient Col de la Forclaz 46.057721, 6.99420946°3’28” N 6°59’39” E
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Still in Switzerland, at Triente
September 14 in Switzerland ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C
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Hiked a 16km day. Rained a bit just enough to get a bit of use of the waterproof gear we’ve been lugging everyday. These alps are so so high. We see some people trail running them which is astounding we feel. Walking up is tough enough. Height gain 850m, height loss 1040m. This means we’re down low in a valley and the only way out is up! 😩😬Read more
Enjoy, happy it's tough hahah [Kerrie May]
9/14/22Reply
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Kids are enjoying looking at the photos of the toadstools and sheep
9/16/22Reply
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That is so beautifully Swiss!
9/17/22Reply
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