Catching up on the blog posts (slowly!). So we’re on the 7th July and we had a spare day to explore Madrid. It was scorching hot, so we had to take it easy really and planned on visit a couple of small markets. However, one was packing up and the other, which was an…
Sounds like an 80s road trip comedy! Its Monday 6th July. After our night in Santiago, we set off for our next phase of the roadtrip by air. We drove down to Vigo airport, parked up the little pocket rocket and caught a flight down to Madrid. The original plan was to spend a…
Back to the plan and we headed to Santiago. This is the first stop to a place where I have some very happy memories of holidays with my parents during the 1990s. I’m trying to work out the last time I was here, and it must when I was around 16 years old. Maybe…
We decided to skip the last day of the festival (4th July). We were pretty tired and worn out and there was only Mastodon we really wanted to see, so we packed up the trusty festival cart and headed back to the car. Thankfully it was safe and as we left her. After a…
Today was a very special day at the festival. In January we had an email announcing that we could apply to have a wedding ceremony at the ResuChapel. It was not a legally binding ceremony, but it got us plotting a surprise. We decided to apply and we managed to get a space. We…
Today marked the start of the first festival and gigs of our trip. Its quite interesting how this relatively small town plays host to a massive metal festival every year. It seems well integrated and welcomed by the locals. I bet it certainly helps the bars, cafes, mini markets survive the rest of the…
I had hoped to do a daily check in on our roadtrip, but it has been a crazy busy and eventful week, plus it was tricky to get power whilst at Resurrection Fest. Today marks a week of being on the road. I’ll try give a quick summary so far, and I’ll do some…