56 Years ago we looked like this

                                                              now we look like this

Saturday, 15 February 2014

We have planned our travels for 2014. Leaving OZ 27 Feb 2014, destination Barcelona. We pick up a car in Barcelona. Our travels are to take us through Spain, Morocco, Portugal and France. Planning to arrive into the UK 21 June. It is then planned to go to Ireland for 5 weeks. The next leg is to Seattle en-route to Alaska and British Columbia for 4 weeks. A VIA Canadian train trip from Vancouver to Toronto. Meet up with Gillian on the 21st Oct. Tourist time then drive with Gillian home to Bloomington. ID. Time with Gillian, Scott and family. Head South to warmer weather early November. Back to OZ Jan-Feb 2015. Things can change due to health and enjoyment but without plans nothing will happen.

 

 

Our daughter Gillian is posting our diary under comments

Very cold or embarrassed tour leader

Altea

Altea old town we are half way up the hill by the tree.

 

Experiencing the contrasts

 

 

Spring festival Denia

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tight town parking

 

 

Excellent Spanish 'Bubbly'

 

 

Our trusty Leatherman required to open it

 

 

 

 

So it did snow on the mountain

 

 

Our place in Nerja Eve at front door

 

 

 Alhambra.  Granada

 

Granada. Sierra Nevada in background

 

 

Great beer at AU$3.75 12 pack

 

 

Gibraltar. not taken by us

 

 

 

 

Spot the Ape!

 

 

 

 

 Eve`s new best friend-our tour guide

 

 

Moroccan mobile phone towers

 

 

 

 

Dyed wool Marrakech

 

 

Perfect presentation of dried fruit

 

Narrow roads with 10 cm sharp shoulder edges and Donkey traffic

 

 

Where from, where to?

 

 

 

Lisbon

 

 

Miramar rail station murals

 

 

Porto rail station murals

 

Selfie Portonovo

 

Paris- 5 Years ago not one padlock when we were here.

 

 

Exhausted tour guide in London

 

 

Physical centre of the UK

 

WRENS memorial at the National Memorial Arboretum

 

 

Tour and taste was a must when in Dublin

 

Peat mining briquettes for domestic use

 

Peat mining for commercial use in nurseries and mushroom farms

 

 

Murals-Galway

 

 Our vessel

 Their vessel

 

 Glacier ice sample

 

Sea Lion see video blog for Dolphins

 

River Otters

 

 

Butchart Gardens 1920

 

 

Butchart Gardens 2014

 

 

Living fossil on petrified wood 225 million years old

 

Tour guide fossil

 

 

Close up of interior of 225 million year old petrified wood