Coming into Spain - so much for winter sun!!
Some of the Spanish mountains with an icing of snow
Clear roads - some quite windy - but most are relaxing
The van absoltely covered in salt and slim - the photos don't show it off really!
Palacio Real (Royal Palace in Madrid)
Parque del Retio, Madrid
Puerta de Alacia (poor mans Brandenburg gate!)
Ryan in Madrid
Lovely fountain in a roundabout in Madrid
Some rock formations on Mels walk in Parque del Torcal de Antequera
Us having a run along the beach with the rock in the background. It started to rain soon after!
The busy shipping lanes off Gibraltar
Casemates Square, Gibraltar, looking up at the rock
Our sandy wild camping spot
A plane landing on the runway (which you have to walk across to get into Gibraltar!)
Gibraltar with clear sky and a hot sun!
View from a walk on the rock
View down from Moorish Castle to the runway
Mel holding the flag at Moorish Castle
Some of the Gibraltar monkeys (Barbary Macaques)
More Monkeys - with a tiny baby on the right
Mel trying to pull!
Ryan with the Med behind
Inside St. Michaels cave (its quite dark - camera did amazingly well to get this!)
Last view from the rock
Tarifa beach - empty early on - a kiters playground!
About to either fall over or start dragging!
Ryan concentrating....
Mel kiting!
The evidence of “beach dragging”
Mel fighting with the kite!
Rough journey of week 2
Rough journey of week 1
Ryan biking
Ryan biking (not supposed to be going at that angle!)
Seville
Seville in the rain :(
Mel soaked in Seville!!
Our view when camping in Alagoa
Old castle in Faro
Ryan near Lagos
The beach about 2m west of Lagos
Mel on the vast beach at Lagos
Lovely typical shopping street in Lagos
Beach cove, Lagos
Lovely secluded beach cove, Lagos
Cove tunnel, Lagos
Lovely coastine from South looking North towards Lagos
The beutiful sunset from our camping spot in Sagres, over lookig the sea and cliffs
Mel on the sandy river estuary in Aljezur
The beach just near Aljezur with the Atlantic throwing up loads of light spray
The Atlantic - the waves are bigger than they look!
Us playing on what looked like some old dead coral...
The natual rock formations looking like tyre tracks
As close as we dared to play...
The sun setting - the view from our wild camping spot!
The town of Cascais - a lovely place and a good bike ride (or run!) from the campsite
Mel at Cape Roca, the furthest point West, with loads of bikers
A selection of the 500 or so bikes out on the roads
the view on one of our cliff climbs down to a beach
Mel - such a hard day.....
Ryan reading and chilling
Lovely firey sunset over Cape Roca
Mel on one of our climbs in Sintra
Ryan one the walk down, Sintra
Sintra central palace
Mel trying to work out what the building is (Mosterio dos Jeronimos) Lisbon
View from Praca do Comercio, Lisbon
One bizzare Lisbon tram - only goes a few 100m - so one for the lazy then.....
Typical Lisbon shopping street
One of the Baixa streets in Lisbon
Ryan in the middle of his run on Christmas eve!
Mel after 4 miles or so in Vilamoura harbour (Chrismtas Eve)
Rough route of week 3
Rough route of Week 4
Christmas Eve Curry
Christmas Day Breakfast Feast!
Openning our presents on Christmas day
Sierra Nevada village
One of the runs
Looking back over the Sierra Nevada mountain range
Showing where we were camping
Mel on the floor...
Mel looking like a pro...
On a ski lift wrapped up warm
Spectacular views from the top of one of the runs
Rough route of week 5
The van after a little light snow.
The view of Granda from Alhambra
Us taking a break on one of the mountain roads on the south coast
Cabo de Gata bay
The view from bed (literally!) overlooking Cabo de Gata bay.
Cartagena harbour
The prototype submarine from 1888! Cartagena
One of the harbours north of Alicante with the start of a Three Kings parade
Calpe from Penyal d’Ifach rock
The other end of Calpe
Mel climbing Penyal d’Ifach
Mel climbing up still!
Calpe from the top of Penyal d’Ifach
Valencia
Rough route of week 6
Some really small old church taken when driving.
The old town on the hill in Ainsa
View out of the van when driving to St. Lary - with the guy in red climbing up the ice (Mel didn't know he was there when she snapped it)
Lovely view - on way to St. Lary
The ice fountain in St. Lary
The St. Lary slopes looking back to the 1700 village
St Lary pic
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Me on my board...
What a dude!
Me boarding like a dude
Mel having a lie in on her spa day....
Glorious scenary from St. Lary
Where we were camping in St Lary, and what we woke up to when leaving....
Snapped from drive away from St Lary
Our free camping night at Magnac-Bourg
Rough route of week 7
Rough route of entire of trip 2
