• Alan Clarke
  • Alan Clarke

PIGS Tour 2016

A 71-day adventure by Alan Read more
  • Trip start
    June 27, 2016

    Co Kildare Ireland

    June 27, 2016 in Ireland ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C

    So what happens when you leave Sydney Australia for the Irish Summer,you get the Australian Winter weather,Almost!
    Weather aside country looked great in summer and arriving in relatively good weather helped ease the jet-lag of a long haul flight. spent the first few days getting to grips with family and friends.Read more

  • Seville Spain

    July 22, 2016 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 33 °C

    The summer heat of july in seville is the first welcome embrace you get, close to 40 degree. The bus was uneventful as we passed from Portugal to Spain. Both countries blend into each other with the dryness of the land and a scorched land from centuries of sweltering heat.

    Last night in seville and we did a real flamenco show, the real power of the dansers and the guitar player came through. The floor rattled with their foot stamping and heels clipping the floor. A very loud Colombian-american girl was shouting beside me...a tad disturbing and mad
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  • Cadiz Spain

    July 27, 2016 in Spain ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C

    Cadiz can be done in a day. Eventually organised a bus from seville bus station, note to self two bus stations in seville and neither talk to each other about their destinations. Bus trip was just under two hours,first is the modern Cadiz all high rise buildings then the old city walls of the fortressed town.Read more

  • Palermo Sicily Italy

    August 8, 2016 in Italy ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C

    The train from catania was a nice way to see the countryside. Through the heart of a country baked in heat and history. Agriculture predominant in a economic sense. Our lost bags turned up on the Monday at Palermo airport by fluke we were in Palermo that day and headed out to airport to see if lost and found had located them since reporting them missing. Stayed local to our apt and had a piazza in tre porchalino.
    The next day stayed local to sort out the bags and whether we would send a bag back to Australia as we had too much luggage. Great coffee and rolls downstairs in local Cafe Quarteara. Went into town that night to see Palermo night-life. Had a walk around and ate a piazza and salad. Found an aboriginal bar that was run by an Italian that loved Brisbane. Got stranded by a non functioning public bus service that night and had to rely on the kindness of strangers to find our way home late in night. Wed went to modelling for a lazy and relaxing day on beach rented some sunbeds and had a nice day kicking back swimming and chilling out. Got a haircut and headed back to apt.
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  • Corfu Greece

    August 15, 2016 in Greece ⋅ ☀️ 31 °C

    Rode a yahmaha cross country 660 to various beaches and towns in North West Corfu Island..
    Stopped in Georges Bay for a bit of sunbathing and food. Very relaxing this was a predominant German beach.

  • Trip end
    September 5, 2016