My long trip in Southern Spain

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TRAVEL DIARY
The story is a continuation of the status Portugal

Tuesday '09.08.88 Departure from Lagos. We follow the coast road of the Algarve, some 'anonymous. At customs, in Vila Real, do a tail of 2 hours and we board the ferry for Spain. It crosses the Guadiana River on barges they have a capacity of 15-20 cars and 2 or 3 campers at a time. Toll ferry 600 Esc. At 13 we are to Ayamonte in Spain. It seems to be returned to the civilized world with a leap of 50 years. Escudos of change in pesetas, all used to go shopping in a supermarket finally before Huelva. We arrive at night in Seville, with great difficulty 'is the municipal campsite, near the airport.

Wednesday '10.08.88
Stay at the camping of sivil.
Take a bus with air conditioning running from Carmona and goes to the heart of Seville. By day there are 37 ° C, the day before our arrival was 45 ° C, we were lucky. Finally buy a camera with film (not disposable) visit on foot the historical center Sierpes, unfortunately, the Cathedral is closed during the day. Visited the Spanish Steps and the gardens of Maria Luisa. The statue we wanted to see was restored throughout fasciata. We could not find the stores that my laces had seen years before. Return to camp by bus. In camp with us, we have transformed English coach in the camper and have a show of their preparations for the dinner and breakfast events in military cauldron with the strangest ingredients.

Thursday '11.08.88
Departure from Seville, passing through the region where he raises cattle and bulls, then the region of salt. Visit of Vejer de la Frontiera where lunch. Buy liquor.
At the point where the road near the sea, we took a detour to see how the beach: the sea is fabulous as the greek green, the beach are sand dunes. We moved a few kilometers to Tarifa, in a camp for 1st class under the pines. At camp, there are a lot of wind, the area in the sea for swimming is fenced to protect bathers from the surf.

Friday 12.08.88
Stay at the campsite in Tarifa. In the morning on the beach there are the guinea pig. My parents go to Tarifa cycling, have done 12 km of salts and downs. In the afternoon I go with my father to make a bicycle trip to the dunes we had seen the previous day. The African coast is right there in front.

Saturday 13.08.88
Departure and arrival from Tarifa in St Luis de Sabinillas, so we left the Atlantic. We wanted to stop in Tarifa but then diverted to the traffic and the difficulty of stopping. We were unable to stop even at Algeciras: the camps are exhausted. From Algeciras wanted to visit Gibraltar but logistical difficulties we have not succeeded (see status of Gibraltar), we arrived in the Mediterranean. We find a campsite near the sea and we relax in the beach and diving into the warm and clean. In the evening I go with my father to walk to the Castle of the Duchess.

Sunday 14.08.88
In the morning there is fog on the beach and it is dangerous to move away from the shore into the sea. Cycling with my father back to the Port of the Duchess and discover that the country is party, are all dressed in folk costumes of the local flamenco. Let us return to the camp to warn my mother and my sister and get back in the country.

Lunedi '15.08.88
We wake up early to go to Estepona by coach, we did about 1 km and waited about 1 hour but the bus is not the past, probably August 15 the service was not working. My mother and my sister are going back to the camper, my father and I went to the port of the Duchess to buy a film for the camera. Swimming in the sea at the campsite.

Tuesday '16.08.88
Departure from Camp Sabinillas in the early morning, we decided to go to Madrid. Let the seafront of Estepona and Marbella, and Malaga, and then we enter into Loja and Granada, a large traffic to reach the Alahambra with long queues to visit. Give up the visit, already made in previous years. Returning to Granada try to park to go to buy some lace, but we do not succeed. At Granada we discover Diesel and an artificial lake. Crossing la Mancha with the thermometer on the 40 ° C, we Jaen, Bailen, Ocana and Getafe near Madrid try the camp indicated on the map. Nobody can be indicated. Then finally a boy from a shed tells us to go beyond the Cerro de los Angeles and in fact went on the claim.

Wednesday '17.08.88
Madrid by taxi: Visita a la calle de Toledo, Cybele and garden del Retiro. Ramirez classical guitar bought for Sarah. Return to campsite full of noisy Madrid on holiday. My sister is reduced to playing the new guitar in the bathroom where the temperature is somewhat 'smaller, the heat is really unbearable.

Thursday '18.08.88
Departure from Madrid at 5:30 in the morning to make a slight coolness. Soon we arrived in Cuenca and we moving to an old man who facava the hitch, we direct the enchanted city. Beautiful! We climbed back up the green valley of the river Yunca, at Ventana del Diablo consists of strings in a rock on a river gorge. Rose to the enchanted city we have come across the main path and made several pictures. After lunch we Sciesa in Cuenca and parked near the river under large trees. We decide not to visit les Torcas. Leave for Valencia. We must address steps 2 to 1600m and 1200m, but as Cuenca is already 1000m were negligible. Bella the road between pines until Motilla. The highways from Madrid is not free. After the passage of Contreras make a brief stop on the shore of an artificial mountain lake. After Valencia there is the motorway to Peniscola. Then do the coast road and we stop to Vinaroz in a campsite near the sea


Friday '19.08.88
Staying at Camp Vinaroz. Bath on the beach, the sea is warm and clean.

Saturday 20.08.88
Vinaroz for departing from the Costa Brava. Camp near the town of Tossa. In the afternoon we made a trip to Tossa: the Castle, the center with narrow streets full of shops. After dinner we returned again to Tossa.

Sunday 21.08.88
Stay in Tossa. Unfortunately, rain and, therefore, we have to shopping. We leave for Playa de Aro. A Playa de Aro we had a bath in the sea: the water is beautiful.

Lunedi '22.08.88
We went walking in the village about 2 km to shopping and then still living by the beach.

Tuesday '23.08.88
Departure from Playa de Aro at 9am, it rains again. At customs we have not even asked for the documents. We do all highway to Orange. Short stop for lunch on the motorway. After Orange: Nyon, Gap. Dinner at the Lake of Serre-Ponçon. Walk along the sandy valley of the Durance to Briançon, here at a yard in the country with many other campers we stop to sleep.

Wednesday '24.08.88
Leaving from Briançon, Montgenèvre, a load of water Cesana mountain of camper shells and cans. We have not even seen the customs. In Turin we have taken the highway, we find grandmothers in Piedmont, we come to Milan in the evening.

KILOMETERS ROUTES DURING THE TRIP: 6 250 Km
TOTAL TRAVEL DAYS: 27