About to leave Seville, what happened till then

After a very good flight we arrived in London and had 5 days with Naomi. We went and saw ‘Book of Mormon’ (hilarious, deliciously daring) and also went to see an Agatha Christie play (The Mousetrap) which has been showing in St Martin’s Theatre for 67 consecutive years! We went to just about every market in the vicinity, and enjoyed the good London weather (not even kidding). We then went to Portugal where we caught up with Jan and Els. Monte Gordo is a quaint little beach town which in the high season swells to touristic proportions but now in early spring was quiet enough to enjoy and get a feel of the real place.

Currently in Sevilla where we arrived yesterday and will leave tomorrow to start that ‘bloody long walk’. We managed to get our first stamp in our pilgrim passport from the Cathedral in Seville. Seems our luck with the weather could be running out as there is a bit of rain predicted.

Anyone not been to Seville and only thinking about it: Just Do It ✔️

Several Markets in London

Kew Gardens-Spring is in the air

Couldn’t resist Peruvian food in Portobello Road

Monte Gordo and Altura (Portugal)

No idea what time this is meant to be but looks interestingkm….this is the first Bridge

Cathedral Seville and it’s famous bell tower.

Overview of our March-June holiday

Leaving the end of March we’ll fly to London to visit Naomi. It will have been a good 5-6 months since we last saw her so we are really looking forward to this. We’ll spend about 5 days with her in London, private tour guide!, and then leave most of our gear behind and fly to Sevilla (Spain).

As Jan and Els are in Portugal (Monte Gordo, 150 km from Seville) we are renting a car and will visit them for 2 nights. Then we’ll high-tail it back to Seville, spend 2 nights in a hostel and start the Camino Via de la Plata. How long this will take is anyone’s guess. We decided the walking and enjoying of the scenery is more important than trying to walk the whole trail in a set time. The Via is said to have a lot of Roman and Muslim influences, of which there is still ample evidence in the architecture and ruins along the way.

Halfway to Santiago de Compostela is Salamanca, where Dirk will join us from the 1st of May. We should make it in that time 🙂 Whether he will continue to the end remains to be seen as I believe there are plans to catch up with Naomi, sometime, somewhere…either way, we are grateful for the company we do get, and hope those two have a good time together. Timo will hold the fort at home, thanks buddy 🙂

After Spain it is back to England, and depending on the weather and the time we have left we’ll decide what comes next. Somewhere in June we will go to the Netherlands to visit family and friends, from where we fly to Singapore and then home again.

If you think this sounds good and you want to know how we get on, keep an eye on this blog. It will be the only way as I am deactivating Facebook for 2019. From now till closer to leaving there will not be much activity, after that I hope to post regularly.

Buenos Anos Nuevos!