#547 England

Arrived at Gatwick, rebuilt bike but a bit of a drama disposing of bike carton in the airport. Took the train to Poole and met up with Sally at Judy's.  

Monday:
Rode for 7 hours to Newbury and lodged with Jasmine & Mick.  

Tuesday:
Rode for 6 hours up the A4 and across London to Muswell Hill.  

Wednesday: Had a jolly time in Covent Garden.  

Thursday: Went to the Tate and enjoyed the Patrick Caulfield exhibition.

Sunday: Let the train take the strain.  London via Norwich to Sheringham. Where even the road signs are in the local accent.

Tuesday: Walked a few miles by the sea and ate crab and drank beer.

#546

Friday: Regensburg to Deggendorf

Saturday: Deggendorf to Passau
Stopped half way for ice cream.

Sunday: Passau to Schlogen in Austria.

Monday: Schlogen to Linz

Tuesday: Linz to Greim

Wednesday: Greim to Melk to Krems

Thursday: Krems to Vienna

#545 Three days to Regensburg

Between Slovakia and Austria went through a tunnel over 8km long.
Claustrophobic - a bit.

Also, on the way, a morning spent cleaning bikes.

#544 Eslovenia

Saturday: 7 for Slovenia,

Sunday: At the top of a bleedin' great hill somewhere near Ljubljana.

Monday: My turn to drive, stayed the night in a hotel down a track in the middle of a forest. Actually all of Slovenia is a forest.

Tuesday: Rakov Skocjan to Postojna
Did not look at Predjama Castle or the  Postojna Caves.  

Wednesday: Postojna to Divača.
Picnic and Forest track.

Thursday: Divača to Koper.
By the Adriatic Sea side.

Friday: Koper to Umag (Croatia)

Saturday: Umag to Trieste
Breakfast in Croatia
Lunch in Slovenia
Dinner in Italy

Sunday: Goodbye to the Group
End of Slovenian Circuit.

#543 Madrid Perpignan Padua Ljubljana

European autobhans we have visited.
Thursday: 750 Km
Friday: 1050 Km
Saturday: 250 Km

Chus considers the wine

#542 En Route

#541 Mas Petit @ La Bisbal d'Emporda

Mas Petit garden

We are here: http://www.maspetit.net/castellano.htm
about 25km west of Girona in Catalonia

for about two weeks.

Mas Petit common room

Waiting for the bill at our newest favourite restaurant La Vil-la de Corçà

Tiger.

We visited Salvador Dali's wife Gala's castle in Pubol, not far from where we are staying. Not very Dali-ish except for this glass topped coffee table that looks down into the room below. Photo by rhl130 on Panoramio

Monells - a local village

At Restaurant Ibèric in Ullastret a nice kitsch tapestry-clad pot that Greyson Perry *might* have been proud of ;-)

Last day in Emporda, we stopped at the most amazing booze supermarket you have ever seen. Thousands of bottles of every sort of Wine, Spirit, Apéritif and Digestif you can think of. 

Made a load of impulse purchases so we are now set right up to, and including, the Christmas festivities. The pic above shows only a part of the Gin division.

#540 Faith

We went to see Carrie in a theatre production of Faith, which she and her actor friends jointly wrote and produced. The theme was the word Faith and there were references to George Michael's hit single plus other sketches based around faith. Plus, between each sketch a video screen showed short interviews with people who where asked to explain their conception of the word. It was V Good!

Photo Credit Angela Ulloa

#539 Wasabi

We are in Barcelona, stocking up on exotic foods.
Sally is about to buy us enough Wasabi to last a lifetime.

#538 Wine & Cheese

Nearly our last meal in France. A Loire red and a local goats milk cheese that we bought at the farm.