Portsmouth here we come

 A morning of packing the last few items in the car and doing all the usual chores of checking tyre pressures, fill up windscreen washers etc and we will be ready to leave home early evening and it takes about one hour and twenty minutes to reach the Port, subject to no getting any delays.

We are sailing on the Brittan Ferries 'SALAMACA' ferry and its strange that after we arrive in Santander on Saturday morning and head south our first nights stop will be in Salamanca.

We expect to board the ship around 11.00 and head to our cabin and get a good nights rest.  We have booked a Club Cabin which also provides access to a special Club lounger where you can get food through most of the day plus drinks and in a very comfortable atmosphere

 

We will spend a few hours here each day to pass the time with reading or watching videos. They have near the coffee stand two brass taps protruding through the wall , one is marked RED and the other is marked WHITE
YES , you guessed it, its wine. 

So will update the BLOG once we reach Salamanca.

Time to travel again

 Well, the last six months or so have been quite difficult what with my younger sister passing and Jennifer having breast cancer and all that entails and Noel ending up in A & E due bowel blockage as result of his LARS problem. But finally we seem to be past all that and need a break.

Last year we visited Portugal, The Algarve actually and a small town  called Quinto do Larg which is not far from Faro . We fixed this holiday with Brittany ferries where you take the car ferry to Santander and then drive down thro Spain until you enter Portugal. We had a very nice time last year although the weather was not was was expected, however we leave again tomorrow for the similar trip departing Portsmouth around 23.30 and arriving in Santander at 0845 on Saturday morning.

We leant our ;lesson time by doing the drive in two days with one night stop and as a result missed a visit to Costco Seville as they are closed on Sunday. However this time we have booked two nights en route, one night in Salamanca and the second night in Seville. Both Hotels are booked and so after leaving the Hilton Garden Hotel in Seville we will pop down the road to Costco for some shopping and then head for our apartment as we can check in from about 4pm.

Today was quite busy preparing all the stuff you need to take for a four nights, which includes two nights on the ferry and getting the car cleaned and ready for packing up all the stuff we take. Noel has a small fold up Mobility Scooter which although rather small still takes up a third of the trunk , however it is all in except for the last minute stuff which we shall take to our cabin onboard the ferry.

The weather toady in West Byfleet is really great and very warm for this time of year and so we hope we get similar in Portugal although he forecast for the first few days is not that great, but its what it is.

So the blogging will start from tomorrow of our trip along with a few photos which we use as a reminder of our trips.