Quick update

Made our way to Switzerland and saw 3 stages of the Tour De Romandie including the finish in Geneva.
Now working our way back with a tour of more lakes (Annecy and Bourget), after having seen Lake Garda, Como, Iseo, Maggiore, Lugano and Leman!
Weather is dire at the moment, but it's the same all over Europe at the moment.
Full update on our return.
Here are some views of the mountains and valley near Locarno in Switzerland (Lake Maggiore in background), and Lac Leman in the mist.

Tour update

Just a quick update now we have found some decent wifi after being on the road for a couple of weeks!  We had a flying visit back to UK to visit my mum and our daughter, then when we got back to Spain Brian found details of a cycle race in northern Italy called the Giro del Trentino which Bradley Wiggins was using as a warm-up for the Giro d'Italia, so we had 3 days to get there!!  Cervantes surpassed himself on the journey.  We saw Brad on two mountain top finishes and we were the only Brits up there!  Got to speak to him as well!

After that we planned to see the Italian lakes and then head for home, but we heard of yet another cycle race, this time in northern Switzerland called the Tour of Romandie and Mark Cavendish and Chris Froome were going to be competing, so we headed throught the Simplon Tunnel on a car train and here we are in a place near Sion surrounded by snow-capped alpine peaks - beautiful.

More updates when we find a good connection-if not, we'll do a full itinerary when we get home!

Glyn x

A real gem of a find

Monday 1/4/13, Tuesday 2/4/13 and Wednesday 3/4/13

I am talking about a very special motorhome park we have found called Camper Park Huerta de Murcia which is between Murcia and Orihuela. It's a really peaceful site in the countryside surrounded by orange and lemon groves, with the nice Spanish town of Alquerias only 800m away. Lots of bars and restaurants and not a word of English spoken - perfect.

   The aire is run by a lovely woman who gave us a bag of lemons on arrival. To reciprocate, Glyn gave her some home made lemon posset (lemons, cream and sugar) when we left. She was very impressed, and said when we returned in summer she would give us some home made lemon granizado (like sorbet) to make margaritas with, so we are obviously going back and holding her to it.

   The site was excellent with good showers and toilets, seating areas etc, but best of all was a dedicated cycle track along the River Segura to Murcia one way (8km) and Orihuela the other(12km)

So for €12 per night (including electric hook-up and free wi-fi) you have a traffic-free route to the centre of Murcia that takes 35 mins max by bike.

   On the Tuesday in Murcia it was the "Desfile del Bando de la Huerta", which is a procession to celebrate anything and everything to do with the production and distribution of food in the countryside (huerta). This consisted of over 2 hours of tractors, old bikes and motorbikes, horses, donkeys, oxen and mules, floats giving away produce, carnival queens, with all the people involved dressed up in traditional costume - what an atmosphere!

   

   Our intention was to go further north to Fortuna, but this aire was so good we stayed there for 3 nights and explored the Casino in Murcia on Wednesday - a fantastic renovation of a beautiful building.

   We would recommend this aire to anyone who wants genuine Spanish quiet countryside, easy access to Murcia, and the friendliest welcome in Spain - fantastic!
   Full picture gallery here