Iberia and beyond.
Winter 2017
As many of you will know, 2017 has been the worst year of our lives.
We lost our youngest daughter, Andrea, to the Black Dog, that is bipolar.
Because of our love of touring, Christmas 2016 was the last time we were all together as a happy family unit, in fact, just for a change Kim, our eldest, did Christmas lunch at her house and Andrea, regaled us with a Boxing Day feast at hers.
Margaret and I decided we didn’t want Christmas at home this year so we felt we needed to try to find a more benevolent location, offering sunnier days and good company.
Hopefully we’ll find both, on this, our fourth European odyssey. It hasn’t failed us yet.
Starting off on December 10th sailings from Rosslare Ireland to Cherbourg in France, then going down the western side of France into Northern Spain, where we’ll turn west and slowly make our way down through Portugal. We’ve booked a lovely hotel for four days over Christmas, near Faro, it’s a former castle and looks impressive.
We’ll go further south towards Spain and Gibraltar, where we’ll play with the apes beefier getting a ferry to Tunis in Morocco.
Here we hope to explore the Atlas mountains before heading over to the Atlantic coast at Casablanca, turning north to go back up to the ferry back to Spain.
Margaret will be flying home from Malaga for two weeks at the end of January, to take over mother sitting duties, before returning to Malaga with Kim, who is coming out for a week to celebrate her birthday in February.
When Kim returns home, we’ll turn north and head up through central Spain, across the Pyrenees, into France, and then home, hopefully when the snow has gone from our shores and the days are longer.
Hope you enjoy the offerings, have a lovely Christmas and peaceful 2018.
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