Isla Cristina Palace
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Animal care AKA cleaning
I have spent the past two weeks on a hotel/zoo building site. Which is on the way to becoming a holiday resort exclusively for disabled kids and their families. Basically I volunteer for 33hours a week and they provide me with food and shelter. I guess that seems like a lot to some but it´s only a short-term thing for me and volunteering is good for one´s soul (and CV). I came here because I knew I´d want a ´break´ from the intensiveness of traveling. ...
Day 16: Countryside
Today I went to a rural area of Italy. It was very calm and quiet here. The people were really nice and gave us some of their food so that we could eat there with them. Their houses were built of pure bricks making them very stable and warm for those cold fronts that come in the winter.
I did nothing else because I wanted to take a break. I had enough relaxation for the day outside enjoying the great wind and beautiful sun. ...
Tavira days
After a bit of trouble finding the bus station we managed to catch the bus straight to Tavira from Huelva city and an easy journey (1 1/2 hours) saw us in the middle of Tavira where we walked to our hotel.
Tavira is a very pretty little town and both Katie and I liked it straight away. There are attractive houses along the river front and some lovely views from the bridges one of which is ...
Seaside chill holiday
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The apartment was very nicely furnished but the area is very built up and there is no public transport at all not even a taxi rank. I was a bit concerned as my daughter katie and i were due to head on to portugal for a few days after our friends returned to seville airport. We had to get a lift from them at 6am.
El Portil has a lovely beach and there are plenty of restaurants to eat in. There is an ...
Mooring up another river
... the anchorage/mooring. What happens is the sand banks dry out as the tide lowers creating a channel that is about 6m at high water and 2.3m at low water.
We reached what we thought was the anchorage but every other boat was on a mooring buoy so with a couple of attempts we picked up a buoy. The wind was whistling down the channel and that made it more difficult for us.
While we were settling down Steve ...