After Lisbon, we started to head south. We spent a day exploring Evora and 3 days in the Algarve area enjoying the sunshine and beaches.

We spent a few days visiting Lisbon and some of its surrounding areas.

After Vigo, we travelled south through Portugal, following the coast, on our way to southern Spain. Porto We actually visited Porto as a…

We roughly followed the pilgrimage route the Camino de Santiago (camino Frances) across northern Spain to Vigo where we stayed for a month.

We spent a week in the Bordeaux area and a day in the Bayonne / Biarritz area. I was looking forward to returning…

It has been 30 years since I last visited the Loire Valley – one of my favourite areas in France!

We spent 2 weeks visiting Normandy.

We spent a week exploring Paris while staying in a fabulous house.

We had a week holiday in the Netherlands with family and while there visited Maastricht, Aachen and Koln.

During our Belgium stay, the kids went to camp for a week. R and I decided to take advantage of this ‘babysitting’ and went on a little side trip to Bavaria and Austria.