Our Europe Motorhome Adventure: The Honest Review!
ihello and welcome back to the channel welcome back everyone today we're going to do a review of our recent European trip that did where we went through France uh Spain Portugal back through Spain back through France and then a quick visit to Belgium yeah we did yeah it was a big trip actually for us yeah we're going to go through some of the highlights places we stayed things we liked things we didn't like we'll go through a little bit of the costings and then we'll let you know what we will probably do different next time if there's anything so the first evening of our trip we went to Canterbury where we have been a few times it's quite handy park and ride there isn't it on Dover road yeah yeah New Dover road I find it really handy to be honest you've got all your facilities there that's the main thing um I mean for the whole 24-hour period you are looking at £8 um but with that you get a bus ticket that you can have up to six people and go into Canterbury itself so if you do get time and visit there then you it's worth popping into Canterbury um and then we moved on through to France with the Le Shuttle yes we did so obviously this is the only way we've really traveled with the Motorhome going across and it was pretty straightforward now you do hear the odd Horror Story that it gets a bit chocker and maybe in the summer months it does but we've never experienced any issue uh it was literally board and straight across so that was easy as anything yeah and we use it there and back and I'm getting used to being in the tunnel now um especially with a motorhome because you can just turn the chairs around and just chill out have something to eat or whatever a drink or whatever um while you're going across so it's much better than a car really um and even we had a little nap on the way across didn't we this time we just shut our eyes um and before we knew it we was at the other side so yeah so it's less than half hour to get across um the actual train ride itself uh and there's an adequate space to get on the train for a long vehicle as well so um it's rather straightforward then our first stop in France was at a lovely place we found called Villars Sur Mer yeah Villars Sur MerI don't know if you pronounce it that way and our pronunciations might not be totally correct as we go through this we go through the whole of this yes I do apologise um so bare with that but yeah Villars Sur Mer so um remembering that then that was a coastal stop it's a little bit further down from on Honfleur yeah um around that area Le Harve is it around that kind coastal line around there lovely Place lots to see around there they even had a dinosaur exhibition kind of Centre yeah um yeah so you're right on like this Park area and within there you've got a lake you can hire out bikes and stuff like that within that area as Jodie said the dinosaur sort of exhibition Museum type thing and then you got the coast which is literally on the doorstep as well uh a little walk up to the town area really it's not that far was it a half-hour walk something like that everything you need is just in walking distance and if you don't want to walk you've got the bikes like Lee said or them even them little um what they call them boogy things riding round on um but yeah so it was it was quite a good stop for our first stop and we had lovely weather as well the only negative to that I think it's one barrier for entry and exit and people do try and come in quite early uh and sort of hog the exit yeah so so what was happening on that site is because if you come in you got to come in after 12 so if people were leaving just before 12 um what was happening is there was a queue to get in for wait for the 12:00 time to sort of lapse and for them to them pay and however people they kept reversing because people kept leaving the Aire trying to keep their place at the front by staying right up against the barrier um but then having to reverse out every time somebody wanted to leave. other than that it was a beautiful Aire and then we went down to a free stop over sort of mid France not far from Le Mans just to the one side um and it was called La Deux Evailles I believe I'm not even going to say that but yeah yeah um that was a good stop actually it was that the one with the lake yeah that was the one with the lake um and the little restaurant next to it that's right and we still had I mean when we was traveling that time the weather still was hit a Miss for rain even though we were lucky enough to have dry weather that was boggy ground wasn't it so we did see someone get stuck we was warned uh if we go in on the grass maybe you know with our size motor home possibly get stuck so we decided to stay in the car Park area it was people that came in after us that couldn't get in the car Park area cuz there's no space um trying to go on the grass and one luckily there's a lot of friendly people around there and they managed to pull them out with their motorhome didn't they cuz they got stuck a stop that I would only do for a night because other than that there's not much there unless you're just there for a weekend chill out it's good to you know be out of the way of the hustle and bustle of life and just chill out there for the night yeah there was a few mosquitoes obviously because it's round the lake um but I've been okay using the Avon Skin So Soft um and then the next place we went to was we stayed at a place called La Palmyre um which is near Les Mathes should I say and that's a camping car park that was yeah and it quite a big one as well and a lot of spaces in that car park because it's quite a popular area you had the famous Zoo there you got the the beach location there lovely Beach and the harbour there you know so it was quite a tourist holiday destination we loved that place and we had the weather again, didn't we. we did we did beautiful ever again there and then we moved on to Spain from there we were going to go to San Sebastian um but we watched a couple of videos and heard a few stories um about crime and people break into Vans and we just didn't feel that where we wanted to stay there near the centre so we could be in the centre there was enough security for us I'm not saying that it happens to everybody it's just that we were a little bit nervous about it so we decided not to go there and we pushed on to a place called camping zumir zumir Z zumir camping Zumaia um but in Zumaia right yeah what however you say it you're going to get wrong anyway so it don't matter well that's the name of the place um you can put it on here anyway we had bad weather there didn't we we come from France with the good weather and then hit Spain with the bad weather um and the campsite itself was on tiers it was all right wasn't it it wasn't too bad it weren't too bad I wouldn't go on there if the motor home was much bigger than us and we're 7.82 um because it is a little bit tight to get onto the pitch if there was Vans opposite you we were lucky enough that no one was parked in the opposite pitches so I could use that pitch to maneuver the vehicle on but yeah I mean it's a nice stop if you can uh not focus on you've got to go through the industrial state to get there and the Steep entrance and exit Steep entrance yeah so entrance is the exit as well so that was quite steep you didn't ground out luckily no we didn't ground out on that one yeah but like you said it's it's like it's a really good place to view the area it's got a nice view from it but as soon as you come down out of it that's why it's on the Steep it's quite high up um you are in an industrial estate so but once you've walked through that to the main town and the main like Coastal area it's not too bad is it we just had bad weather that's all you know we had a good look around went out on one of the points there that takes you out on the coastal bit walked around there didn't we and that's it really so we didn't do too much there but um we've done a lot of traveling by then so we said there the one night and then from there we headed to another campsite that we got recommended by us by one of our viewers if we do get recommendations and it does suit us then we will try our best to go we would always take on board any recommendations definitely we appreciate it cuz it helps us so we went to a lovely place called Camping Playa Joyel yeah near Noja yes yeah spelt with Noja a J but um obviously their Js are their Hs so Noja and that was a beautiful campsite like yeah you were all sort of cramped on it's mainly like uh seasonal Caravans and things like that that were there so the spaces you had were like all sort of cramped on a bit but you find that in some places in Europe anyway um and they were between trees they do let you go off I think there's only two months of the year they don't let you go off and search for your own pitch and that's because it's very busy so that's I think the June July no so July August time I think so when you're in Peak summer other than that you can just turn up they have a no dog policy so unfortunately I know a lot of our viewers have dogs if you planning on taking a dog just you can discard that one completely um if you're not it's a beautiful it's like paradise there isn't it with the beach the beach is on the campsite yeah and then so it has got a lovely Coastline very green um around there and um yeah with with the beach it's got its own Beach but you can walk around and it's got other beaches as you go up around the area we really appreciate that so thank you very much um Mick Sparrow for recommending that one yeah and then we went to a free park up didn't we cuz we we decided from there because we were a bit hit and miss with the weather that we were going to go into Portugal a little earlier than what we'd previously planned didn't we you had itchy feet you needed to get going I wanted to go to Portugal I wanted to go to Portugal I mean it was nice northern Spain but I don't think I spend my whole holiday there in Northern Spain I definitely want to get down south or go somewhere else so we wanted to head to Portugal anyway as you know that's our main destination so I decided to cut across uh and we found well you found um a nice free spot didn't you yeah you waiting for me to say the name player rabo R rabo rabo that's how it's written yeah so this was on search sites actually and it was literally a reservoir so even though it states player there is a a man-made Beach should we say or a beach um that's not natural there um it has got like a little shed type thing they have as a bar I don't know what the opening times are that it weren't open when we there but on the official motor home stops you could probably get two motor homes there um but it has got a gray waste drop uh Elon point and fresh water the water and all that was working the only thing with the services is the Elon point weren it was overflowing type thing and I could see on search sites people did mention that it weren't that much of an issue however whatever's happening underneath the pipes are leaking slightly maybe and you can see a little bit a mess but the actual area was spectacular and well worth the stop you could also Park pretty much anywhere around that parking spot on the reservoir the thing is there's a kids um play area there as well or like um I don't if it's a player group or something but when we went we couldn't see that there was no but we've seen it on the reviews so really they shouldn't they should try and keep that clean shouldn't they if they've got kids playing around what Authority run yeah um but like we were looking for the beach and the bar was shut when we were there we were looking for the beach and then we could see like a kind of suy grassy area and then a massive Palace sand so we reckon that that was due to go on yes that was maybe their Beach yeah they they were just setting it up ready the only real negative for me was the mosquitoes um it was in near a reservoir you would expect it but we must have had a tiny bit of light showing somewhere because they attacked her B gladly with this fan touchwood they've never well you get the odd one coming but like the amount of mosquitoes we had around they didn't actually get I think we carried a couple around with maybe maybe so in the garage area maybe but there was hundreds and and yeah so the seals on this fan so far are pretty good we could hear them frying with the flame from the fridge yeah so the fridge was on gas and you could just hear them as they're getting into the vents and that flame just burning up so yeah that's that was their final destination yeah once we closed up heavy aage there's no lie um they headed off towards the bar area so we were all right then it is hundreds of spectacular views there yeah it is lovely so you know as long as youut the doors at night you're all right um but yeah it's we would we would go back again we just know we just know that you can't see nothing when it's dark anyway the ambient light there is is minimal so it's pretty pitch black once the sun goes down and I was looking never got bitten cuz say that stuff's so good that I've been spraying on I was fine so then we headed into Portugal and we decided to cut in kind of north um and we went sort of Midway course didn't we so the the only thing with Portugal before we go into where we stayed in Portugal um I did look up about their toll system because I heard it was different so just to mention the toll system um there is two types um and because there is different companies that own the tolls so one of the types is electronic toll system and you can go on the Portuguese tolls um website and the official website and you can log your bank card uh as I did now I believe there is machine means that you can do it but I didn't want to take that risk so I logged it online put my bank card in it stays active for 30 days so every time we went through very cheap tolls mind um every time we went through an electronic toll it wouldn't bother me because it just automatically within seven days or so it'll take that money out now it it accumulates for the whole day so it'll work out the whole day of all the TOs you've used electronically the other type of toll that has a barrier so electronic tolls no barriers at all the ones with barriers don't go straight through where it's the tag Lane unless you've got a tag attach to your vehicle so an electronic device that actually pings and tells them you've paid or they're going to take the money um which I believe you can only get that if you're a resident of Portugal yeah no foreign vehicles you can't even do it retrospectively you'll end up with a fine yeah and so go straight to the uh barrier collect your ticket or pay the toll fee so it's simple as that go on online register your card for the electronic tolls don't worry about them no more if you come up to a barrier grab the ticket or pay that one we did see though we saw that people could pull over and do it at a machine there yeah so I believe all of them but some of them I believe there's a machine before you can get you get to the tolls however we have heard stories of the card not registering in time people arriving hom to a fine um because the first toll they used it weren't registered so if you do it a few days before I think it was 3 days before I registered um and ready to go and it was all lined up so easy and then we went to a place called pel yeah which we just picked from search for sites to be honest and cuz we' had never been to Portugal before you have but I've never been home I've never been yeah or driving around probably not either um so it was a a camping car park cuz we thought we actually we did pick it on search for sites but um it did say that it was camping carpat so went website didn't we yes yeah cuz we and because we were already registered with them from the previous one in France we thought it' be good idea cuz at least we know we can see the availability yeah and it was lovely was it it was absolutely Immaculate really um lovely pictures it had like um what's the boards called so it's it's like um The Patio boarding yeah around the edges of the pictures yeah so I can't remember what you call it now but you know like you can have it in your garden it's just slats of of wood but it it was really marked out well and massive service really clean we actually thought it was next to a supermarket though didn't we we did yeah and we went looking for that supermarket and it even had a picture of a shopping trolley on it and it ended up being just like a brick Brack kind of place yeah one of the Chinese markets they have out there with everything for sale other than food really yeah and we needed food so we set off in search us at a supermarket didn't we which we never actually found but we found a lovely um little they call it a city or was it a town it was a city wasn't it yeah and it was like um I don't know Lookout Towers SL Castle type thing yeah um really medieval really medieval wasn't it the whole place and I think there was a tour cuz when we went up to look at the towers on the castle you'd go in the information place and there was a lady selling the tour so they'd take you around and but we had a look at some of the places we would imagine they would take you as we were going around the town and it's just got stunning history hasn't it yeah it was a lovely Place beautiful and it's really high up as well so you know when you was up the top There You Could See For Miles just over this you know really green Lush land really it was nice yeah so we thought that was a really good choice and we would recommend that definitely wouldn't where was next coimbra coimbra so we somebody else recommended this on um Facebook comments on our page um so thank you very much can't remember who it was right now but thank you very much for recommending it so we sort of looking at it anyway weren't we MH um but we decided to go there and we wanted to see the city cuz we knew there was lots of things to see and the closest we could get not having a a car with us um was this one camping Place wasn't it I don't know if it was called camping coimbra was it kinra camping or camping kinra kinra camping and Bungalows I think right okay it wasn't the best um it did the job for the night we stayed there you could probably do a couple of nights there being close to the city it was quite adequate it it was adequate enough it's just we didn't go for electric so we ended up on the top tier with um the comra uh campsite there's a bus stop outside as well Tes you in I think it was about was it two or three EUR it was two EUR per person um I'm not sure if it was a return or not um however I I think it was just there and then two back so that would have been 8 uh and we ended up paying like two €2 something for a taxi yeah yeah taxes are cheap because it was a Sunday and we didn't want to risk the buses so you got you looked for an option of there there was an app called bolt and it runs all around Portugal really um and it's just like an Uber app and yeah it was really cheap and they come straight to your GPS location on on your phone so it made it easier if you don't know where you are and for that price I thought they were going to be a little bit Rusty or whatever but these were nice these were topnotch cars they were nice we went for mid-range you didn't go cheap cheap but it still it still very cheap um so yeah we really enjoyed that and we did use them in other places didn't we both did in in Portugal just one last thing on coimbra if you want to see what we got up to there it's best to look at the video because there was so much to see yeah I can't explain it all to you you seen it all in that so so have a look at our video and also in our video there's Link in the description to the main places to see in coin bre if you wanted to check that out so yes definitely recommend it though definitely um and then we went to a lovely place called portal C which oh I love that I love the campsite I loved the area um very upand coming area the camp site we went for premium pitches so we paid a little bit more and but they were hugee weren't they absolutely massive we probably could have got three of these on there yeah and the campsite was so clean and it had everything you needed again restaurants laundries um you know uh shops everything everything you needed on there didn't it but I think the most stunning part of that cuz there is a lot of building work going on and sometimes you got to look past that because as said it's an up and cominging area as you go down into the little villagey town bit or whatever that's really nice but the coastline is stunning and the water quality was amazing yeah it beautiful the little Coes with the little beaches and you're up on the top of the cliff there and you can just see all the rug rugged Coastline like I say with people you know sunbathing down on the the little COI Beach as you go along beautiful yeah I've even taken a picture from one of the cves and now that's my screen saver on my map um because it was that good it's better than some of them that have programmed in um it was so it was so pretty so beautiful the only downside to the whole place is make sure you've gone shopping first if you need food and stuff yeah there is a a little shop in in the little town bit Yeah there's one on the site as well one on the site there is one in the town but it's a little bit more expensive it doesn't do everything either it's a bit cramped as well in there isn't it if there if it's got a few people in but if you need Essentials it's there it's just expensive yeah there is stuff but if you want to do a proper shop then do that before you go to Porto coo I would I would suggest that's all definitely recommend Porto coo in Portugal and then we went to our destination um which is where we're heading to is the algar and we went to Camping alera yeah a few of you may know about that cuz there's been other videos on it and a few people will have been there already um we wanted to book a week there so we knew it was sorted for when we got there um but you can't book camping up before we sort of learned that about Portugal Portugal is pretty much turn up to the there may be the odd site where you can book but if you if there are them sites they usually have a booking fee as an extra but usually what we found in Portugal it's just pretty much turn up we squeezed on first cuz we we didn't know how big the site was so when we came in and we just found the first available space it was really tight and then I went hang on a minute Le there's there's Lads of space over there now they were the reason it looked so like much like the l space they were doing some grass cutting so they'd cut some of Cardon some of that off but there was a couple of spaces just before that wasn't they Lee went to have a look and then we moved and it was a lovely beautiful stay yeah stay yeah we met a lovely couple there as well who C to some lovely dinner didn't they yes they did from Scotland they were they were amazing um and that was great actually it was really nice to be you know invited for something to eat it was just you know cuz sometimes you when you're traveling it's just us but sometimes nice to interact with others and that's what it's about as well uh and that was a good opportunity to interact with with another couple we had a couple of drinks that evening so it was very nice well we booked for four nights originally then we went and extended for another night didn't we yeah um and we went and visit aler itself and we had a bit hit and miss weather you see so some days were nice some were a bit windy so we didn't we're trying to pick the best days and that's why we had to extend CU we knew that day was going to be a better day didn't we um so we went down to the beach which is beautiful and stunning it's a lovely place um it's you've got your bars where people drink and go and probably have stagos or whatever then you've got your quieter areas you've got your big hotels your outside beach bars you you know it's and and new restaurants on the beach as well and uh we we ate out a couple of times found a really nice indian didn't we and we found nice stay they have music playing in the Square depending on what bar you're in I think they take it in turns to have the music in their bar so you can all hear it it's just it's a lovely place and I would definitely go again and definitely recommend alera and we had an amazing boat ride out I mean we were going to we looking for dolphins which we didn't find no not this time we did see all the caves in that and that was yeah that lovely beautiful it yeah it was you know again stunning Coastline Portugal really really nice and the boat did go quite fast as well which was quite fun albair was brilliant and then we decided from there we're going to head back into Spain mhm we actually wanted to go to ceville didn't we you know we've heard some things about cille and mind visiting the city and everything and we found um an air which was right near the city on the docks and we thought that would be yeah it was a marina type thing was um but it was quite late when we start off from the time obvious she traveling and by the time we got there um it was quite full and by the time we worked out how to get through the gate um we did read on the reviews just got to wait and Shout somebody or whatever boser yeah yeah well eventually we got in um but there was one space left and it was all tight one in it was probably tighter than some of the airs we've stayed on like that I'm not saying that might people watching this that have had an enjoyable stay there that's great but for us at that time in that situation as time was pushing on one space left squeezing you on it wasn't for us um so we decided both of us were a bit anxious about it and when you feel like that you just move on um so we decided to plot on and as we were driving we just thought we were heading towards malago at some point so we just put malago in um and as we were driving I was looking for somewhere and then we found a a supermarket called family cash that had a um the there at the back of the car Bas and we've heard there's a few family cashes type supermarkets that do this so it's not the only one we thought it might have been the only one but it ain't no ideal um to basically get your shopping in um and will the um trolley straight up to the motor home the service is there as well and we we attended oh that was uh ASA is it calleda yeaha the parking bears are actually uh look enough for cars like one after the other there's quite a lot but most people were parking along them long ways because there is no way even though it's a designated motor home place there was no way you were going to get the motor homes in and out the way they had it so people were parking long ways again and and respectfully to each other uh it was quite you got quite a few about 10 yeah about 10 on there do you reckon on there something like that um and we arrived on a bank holiday as well didn't we um Spanish bank holiday so that the supermarket wasn't open the next day um but the day after that we got a load of shopping in didn't we yeah um and we headed up to see the town cuz on the way there as we were driving there we could see like the castles and churches and things on on the hill couldn't we I thought it looks quite nice and yeah yeah it was a lovely Place yeah beautiful good to visit the only negative to that place is that it's all quite uphill if you want to see the main sites with them being on top of a hill um so if you have mobility issues um it would be quite hard to to get up there you can drive up if you've got a car we did see cars going up to the top of there um and the fact that you do get people coming in out quite late at night as well don't you different Vans and stuff so um but it's free and it's near a supermarket and it's in a beautiful town so you can't ask for more that can you really I do and then from there we decided we were going to head towards a place near Malaga called ringcon De La Victoria we' found a nice little campsite air um was fairly cheap um we thought we'd go for that didn't we yeah um and we was also contacted around that time by a couple of viewers that wanted to meet up with us if we ever were near maliga so it was perfect wasn't it so we went there um and it was um a lovely campsite just as a few issues doesn't it with yeah entrance to that oh yeah so this was the one um where I mean Jody did mention to me I didn't read it myself but then someone has ground out on the entrance to make sure you pick the right entrance because we Ed the Garmin have text to it's never let me down now sometimes it's got to take you down narrow streets because that's the only entrance in so it was quite narrow as we're coming in but I'm thinking I trust in the Garment now what I didn't realize after assessing the situation after is obviously all the map systems probably run off Google and they just take their data from that there is a road if you come in in the other way that is not recognized on Google so it would think it's blocked any satnav going up there will only think that's the way in and of course it was the way that it was going to grind out now I did sort of see it I could have probably reversed now in hindsight but then I still would have had to navigate back through them tight roads and then try and find a way in so I I thought I'd go for it and I did have a feeling maybe underneath it be the freshwater outlet and it it did it not the freshwater Outlet scraped a little bit of the tank but I thought it was exhaust I you did cuz it's cladded in a a silver foam cladding it looked a bit like an exhaust but that was just the pipe so it knocked off the pipe and it basically knocked off the outlet um mechanical mechanism it was hanging on pretty much by the electrical wire and then I limped into the campsite I was able to get fix no problem it didn't really phase me too much I would have found a way to plug the uh tank at the end of the day I didn't need to empty the fresh tank while we was out on that trip not at all it would just be a way of plugging it and filling up the fresh so we can still use fresh however I was able to use ct1 to get the bracket stuck back on and have the system working again perfectly so and on our actual video for that which is in the playlist which I'll link into this description the playlist our actual video for that which was was called real motor home disaster you'll see on there that we showed the correct way into that campsite cuz they were a lovely family run campsite W the C isue and they can't put signs up they're not allowed to they're not allowed to do anything like that they could only put it on their website which they do but not everyone reads they have contacted Google as well and U nothing's really um so what they because that's a bit of Road isn't recognized it will always take you the wrong way apart from that if you go in the right way and you leave the right where it's actually a really good campsite we recommend it it's got a nice little Coastal area within it hasn't it just like a 10minute walk away isn't it MH um and if you want to get into malago it's about a half an hour bus drive would you yeah a little bit more reckon 40 minutes 40 minutes bus ride um into into malago P area in the harbor we went there and visited some lovely friends now an and Nigel um and we had a really good time with them and then we looked around the port area we didn't see all of Malaga so don't know much about malago cats here much apart from the port area was beautiful and some lovely boats out there and the Bars were lovely and it good atmosphere so we really enjoyed that um so that stay was really good and we would recommend that and you could stay there for a week or longer couldn't you on that side easily so from there we went back to a stop that we stayed at last time and we really loved it and it was a free park up near alakan airport yes not not too far urbanova urbanova urbanova is the is the um place we stayed it's got got a lovely like prominade restaurant lovely Beach couple of hardstanding Park UPS there the one nearest to the prominade is where we stayed great place but we just recommend don't go up into the corner and the far the far end um there is a guy and maybe probably a few people maybe a few but we've seen the same guy twice both times we've been who likes to empty his toilet cassette in the bushes of the of the sand just on that edge up there um so if you've got kids with you or animals with you do not go to that far end because we don't know it's covered in flies there anyway our we packed up there didn't we we and we were covered in fles it was emptying his waist it dug a hole in the sand underneath to empty his waist you're probably going to find this in certain places so yeah just be aware of stuff like that does happen um you know it happens everywhere in the world but if you're staying there we recommend being closest to the prominade side and it be a great stop so we didn't stay for two nights there like we wanted to because of our experience this time so we moved on and booked got to benador a day earlier than we booked they let us on to the campsite so we stayed at the campsite called camping Arena Blanca yes camping Arena Blanca something like that um and we stay there before and it's great sight bit of a squeeze to get on but it's really friendly nice and comfortable and out the way um we've been there twice really like it but I think next time if we go back to benadom again um we had a couple of Dramas there which we've put videos on if you want to go and have a look we're not going to go into it now cuz it will make this video so long having to explain it and it's long enough as it is um so please go go back and watch um our video in the playlist called they tried to Rob us we will be staying at the Oldtown area next time won't we yes so we're thinking we're going to go down that side if we stay around that area we do recommend the campsite we're on um but for us we will be moving into a different area and then from there benadon we decided to head home didn't we yes we did yes and that came with its little errors in the navigational side anyway bless you so we were aing to go back um the other side of the panes into France and you find a nice camping car park you we got spaces on it and when we set off when we got into the main road and it said like 260 kilomet to Zara Zaragoza and I was like we're on this road for that long to Zaragoza means we ain't going in the right direction but we'd already gone like an hour or so into our drive weal to happened now is um basically I I work off coordinates when I set the satinav abroad I think I was on the northwest coordinates or the Southwest I can't remember now but anyway I put one of the coordinates in wrong and it took us basically towards aragoza rather than the campsite we wanted to go it was taking us to somewhere in B Bilbo Bilbo yeah going back there um so you you obviously got the the coordinates slightly so we decided to to carry on to pamp palona basically p yeah we decided to go back there um because we thought well we're heading home anyway we know that site we we've messed up here let's just go there um we didn't know whether we were going to be staying on the free um Park up that's we stayed on time or the actual air itself so we just went and there was spaces on the air they paid a 10 us a night so we just stayed there didn't we we did yeah it was an easy stop and it's got electric so it's it's fine it was a great stop I've been to pampalon a couple of times used it there back last time there's a stop over um so this time we just we went in and found somewhere to eat and had a look around like a Park area didn't we with history in it yeah it was um well it was nice to see a different part of it anyway yeah um it is famous for the bow ring and that but if you look past that um it's got Lads of nice it's really comfortable it's a really comfortable placees can't get noisy on a weekend CU it's a city other than that it's it's not too bad and when I say noisy it's not like Rowdy people it's you know Sirens traffic noise maybe fireworks going off motorbikes you know the scooter type things yeah so that sort of thing but you know it's still a safe air you know if you need a stop over it's it's well worth a visit to to get there and C pampalon is really nice I think that's one of my favorite cities yeah um definitely if you want to check out we've got two videos on Pamplona one on this playlist and one in our previous one um and we also show the free car park that's opposite it I mean you can stay there for 24 hours for free um it's recognized you number plate when you go in um lets you in and uh that's the barer in case you didn't it and then we headed back into France yeah we went to a place called torg torg if you say it that way then T Tor yeah in agreement um and it's a camping car park again and it was near a castle yeah it was pretty much on the land I suppose of the um the castle grounds and you had your own private Garden where you could see the bit of the castle as well I think you can visit inside the castle which we didn't we didn't really have time we did have a look around the area and it was really nice stop there I thought it was peaceful yeah there was a restaurant there was at the bars and restaurants about three or four around the area so you got a nice Castle the only downside to it I would say is the train and yeah but they did shut off at night so it might have been about 11:00 and as some of the comments say you know from that video is some people find quite tranquil and nice so you know it weren't much of a problem for us in the in the daylight hours but it is there and for some people that may not work for you had Coats were back on when we got there weren't they yeah yeah that was definitely coming back North then we headed off to a place near ruin called rugal or something like that rugly maybe something like that um we will put it in here we've probably pronounced it wrong but it was a nice little site again like the first one in Villa Su that we went to in France it was like a camping car park where you pay as you go in and bar let you know your ticket and everything um it was like a campsite it was like a campsite it was absolutely stunning 1 massive space for pictures and very quirky buildings around there as well wasn't it and then you had the walk down into the woods you had the uh Brook running alongside it we didn't do much filming there um because we just wanted a bit of a break really it was only one night a break yeah um but we did go into the little town area and there's plenty in the town's bars but the Aldi is not where it says it is in that area um it says it's number five on the street but it's not it's probably like 105 further up isn't it yeah if you go back to our last one it is our last European video isn't it really before we come home um then I do put a map up just to show people that where it is cuz it is there just not where it states it is so we went there and then we headed from there um to go meet some friends in Belgium which we weren't expecting it was like we were planning to meet them if we cross path so they said that we're in Belgium uh in yeps and we thought well why not just head over it's just over the border and it was plenty of time for us to get to Cali the next day for our train wasn't it so it was only an hour and 15 minutes from Belgium or that site to C yeah to Cal so uh um yeah that was very easy just to to get down there ready for the train yeah and Steven Catherine took us to the menning gate and we went and saw the last post that was nice to see pay respects and things and then yeah it's a lovely thing to see I've seen it in the past many years ago but it was good to see it again it still carries on and then we left there and we went back for the train stopped again at uh Canter that night and then from there we headed to the showes didn't we yeah so the first Festival soon as we crossed over yeah so that was the end of our time in Europe yeah but what we'd like to just we' like to go through the costings now with you but we're not going to go break them down too far cuz one we didn't work it out to that actual point um and it can get a bit boring and this video is long enough so we just thought we give you a rough idea so all in all we spent about £3,000 um you drove it's pretty much a 4,000 mile round trip yeah so if you think of the fuel for that and then we had we didn't have eat out much really just when we got to alera and uh benador they were the two places that we ate out so there was costumes for that um the normal food shopping we did would have been what we' have normally done anyway if we were at home um so campsites some of the campsites and a that we stayed on um there was costumes for them as well in that four hours and tolls were a big one as well as the fuel um and that was about it for costings wasn't it I haven't missed anything out oh the the cost of the tunnel sorry yes yes and the and the Euro tunnel very I use my Tesco Club Car vouchers um for that um which is a shame they only double up the points now but you know if you are a Tesco Shopper and use their Club card you can um use the club card voucher points to to then convert them to get money off your Crossing on the Euro tunnel uh and well worth doing and are looking at going again out with soon so stay tuned for our plans for our next one yes definitely and it will be this year so you know we're not waiting around till next year to go back out to Europe and we are going to be doing it slightly different as our traveling out to get there um and where well we'll just have to wait and see on that one but definitely stay tuned for our next European it's more it's similar similar but in a different way yeah so still in the motor home so still in the motor F yeah we're not taking a tent on our backs or flying our hotel flying or anything like that so we're still in the motor home we're just arriving there in a different way but you'll find all that out when we do we'll we'll stay tuned and we'll do a vlog on it it's just a lot easier because if we explain it all in the a we've waffled on enough thank you for staying tuned with us right to the end if you're still with us now we do appreciate it yes we do definitely um and well I suppose that's it from us um but yeah look out for our next Vlogs of our UK travels and we will see you on the next one so thanks again for everyone that has 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