After 6
weeks and 2 days, we finally left the campsite in Ronda today! It felt great to be back on the road, despite
our first stop being fairly uninspiring; but after 6 weeks of not moving, we
didn’t really care!
The last time we
were in Spain, we spent a rainy day and night in Gibraltar. It quite literally rained the entire 24 hours
we were there. Despite the good night
out, we vowed never to go back and were happy to drive straight past...until I
recently discovered that they now have a Morrisons there. We’re not usually the kind of people to yearn
for British food, but to be fair, we haven’t been away from British food long
enough to yearn it, until now. We’ve
also discovered during our travels so far, that although coffee seems to be a
staple in Europe, proper (British proper!) tea isn’t. We are coffee drinkers, but have begun to
drink more tea over the past few months.
We’ve been buying teabags, along with all of our other groceries,
locally but we normally need to use 2 teabags each to get anywhere near a
decent cup of tea, so we succumbed to the pull of Morrisons and returned to
Gibraltar today! It wasn’t a huge
diversion as we’re going to Tarifa next, otherwise we wouldn’t have bothered. We found the aire fairly easily thanks to
Hazel, our (for once) trusty sat nav. We changed
the settings just before we arrived in Ronda, so hopefully that should stop her
from sending us in random directions...so far she hasn’t. At 12 euros a night, it wasn’t the cheapest
place, but it’s minutes few into Gibraltar and there’s not too much road
noise. After sorting ourselves out, we
grabbed our bags and headed to the border.
A short walk and presentation of passports later, we were in Gibraltar,
again. We took a couple of touristy
pictures en route and had a quick look through the town again just to make sure
we hadn’t missed a hidden gem the last time around; we hadn’t, so we headed to
Morrisons before heading back to Dora, with our supply of very British goodies! We didn’t buy a great deal as our bags
weren’t big enough, thankfully, so we bought only what we deemed ‘necessary’
and not readily available elsewhere.
Short but sweet, we were in, around and back in Spain in just over 2
hours. Sorry Gib, but you just don’t
float our boats enough to keep us any longer!
Powell enjoyed being somewhere new and I’m sure the macaques are great
but I’m not overly keen on the little blighters and the cable car was
shut...besides, I’m pretty sure they don’t take dogs anyway, so we wouldn’t
have been able to go on. On the bright
side though, it didn’t rain, we’re having (proper) bacon butties for tea tonight
and probably cheese and pickle ones for lunch tomorrow...oh, and we now have
enough proper teabags to see us through until Easter! Tarifa tomorrow and hopefully a couple of
freebie nights to boot!
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