Wednesday 14 th May 2025.
Well we returned yesterday after an enjoyable trip,to Portugal and Spain. It was virtually all new territory for us and as the past blogs show we visited some fascinating venues some of which we had only read about and others we only discovered as we went along.
So at the sunset of our journey we have been casting our mind back and have enjoyed talking to friends about our trip.
On day 13 (unlucky for us) an English panel van driving too fast for the rough surfaced narrow road crossed the white line and smashed off our door mirror, it didn’t to our knowledge stop. Driving without that mirror is extremely dangerous as you are driving on the right of the road, you need it to see if you are being overtaken and also when you take slip roads onto major roads.
I managed after Michelle bought a bathroom mirror and a caravan towing mirror plus oodles of tape to build a new rudimentary mirror which although not perfect sufficed to get me home, driving for 27 days with this makeshift mirror did bring stress at times. We tried but failed to purchase a new one, now we are home I’ve ordered one and it will arrive in 24 hours.
We are always interested to find out some statistics about our journey so here are some rough figures, I’ve occasionally had to round up numbers.
Including a day to travel to Portsmouth and a day to return home we travelled for 40 days.
The ferry booked 9 months in advance so we could have a pet friendly cabin cost £ 1,130.
Our total expenditure whilst away was £1,800., this covered costs for :
We spent £482 on diesel.
We spent £21 on LPG.
Amazingly our total for site fees for the whole trip was only £88, the majority of places we stopped were totally free and often had free services, so many thanks to Spain and Portugal for providing for motor homers. We had 18 free nights in Portugal and 5 in Spain.
Alison our fellow traveller calculated we had spent probably more on beer, wine and whisky than we had on diesel😂😂🍺🍷I couldn’t possibly comment.
I would definitely return for another trip.
taraabit 