Tam, Jade and Franky's European Adventure

Ooft it's took me 15 minutes just to read through this thread and pop thanks etc on comments since my minor indiscretion.

But of a delay in posting since some little madam chewed through my bloody phone charger cable.
As she hasn't chewed anything else ever in the van I can only assume she figured if I was back on here is spend less time fussing over her so she resorted to sabotage.

She's been in a funny mood the last few days .....insisted on driving one day and I patiently sat for 10 mins while she tried to figure out how to reach the pedals and then I had to take over.

Stayed in the same spot in Malaga for a week as it was handy for the beach and I got a nice tan ....even jade now has a few Brown bits.

I met this really weird but interesting belgian dude who was an artist and a little eccentric
He turned up on the Friday evening while I was sat outside the van catching some rays ....at first I thought he was German as he spoke like colonel grubber from "hello hello"
He said " gud evenink kanst du tell me es eet okaaaaay fur me too park ze car here? Ee do not hav ze camping car but I sleep outside eet and I don't vish too be ze bother"

I said no probs claus knock yerself out :)

And that was that I couldn't get rid of him.

Strange dude ...he had a lifesize maniquin in his passenger seat that he had dressed exactly like him complete with straw hat and a pipe ...and a stuffed dog in the middle seat

Stark raving bonkers he was but a decent chap so we slaughtered the bottle of Greek wine I've carted round Scotland England and most of spain ......i do like a well travelled grape:p and put the world to rights
I told him youd all banned me from here and he said " zat es nicht zo gut .....in my day ze wud be shot zen brought bak to lifes und shot again! " bit harsh but there was no holding him back.
P.s he also thought ze hymers were gut wohn mobils :p

Anyway I woke up in the morning and true to his word he was sleeping outside .....im glad it didn't rain. ....he was 74 and was heading to morroco as it was apparently his life's dream to visit Africa and paint some place ...thoroughly nice guy he was :)

Had lunch with the barber dude that cut my hair on Sunday .....he took photos lol apparently my tattoos impressed him and he wanted my pic for his website .....jade might have sneaked in a few too.

So here's a few pics of up till that point cause I moved after that.

There's a really cool airbrushed camper I spotted in malaga in there too and the biggest motorhome I've seen complete with matching toad ... ( no trailer )

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He looks like my kind of guy.......
I mean the mannequin!!
 
Hi Tam. Loving the photos, there is a place in Morocco we’re all the Artists go its amazing the houses the small streets in fact all over painted by Artists who visit a particular time of the year, it facinated me, love your idea of sharing a bottle and the information/stories start to flow, treasure these memories you are making, and so pleased to have you back sharing them.
Your right :) and chatting with him and the barber guy ( bob) and the Bavarian couple etc all interesting people I'll likely never meet again but I'll likely never forget.
 
Yet dugs just enjoying the sun but that coach thing is mental. :eek:
Mahoosive ain't I. .....i really wanted to see the inside but despite the door of it always being a little open I never saw the people from it .....i think they sat inside the whole week.
The also had 2 colour coded scooters which were parked outside the day I arrived but they must go inside somewhere as I never saw them again.

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Morning peeps.

Thank you all for all the nice posts I really am touched....

Not in a Jimmy saville way mind you ....more in a orange clad Harry whatsisface kind of way. ..

I'm afraid my phone's about to die though so you'll have to wait a bit for an update on where we are etc
Yay he’s back!!!:party2:loving the photosx3!!!
Just making up for lost time! You could have your van tattooed!!
That humongous MH is obscene!!!
 
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Yay he’s back!!!:party2:loving the photosx3!!!
Just making up for lost time! You could have your van tattooed!!
That humongous MH is obscene!!!
The old saying Is “A bad penny always returns” Don’t know if it’s just a Scottish saying or not but I’m sure Tam will agree :LOL:
 
I don’t think the rest of Fun know where you are now and what you really have been up to all week.

A few paragraphs doesn’t cut it. You can do better than that !
 
So......anywaaaay
I moved from Malaga on Monday. .....wen to an aire to dump and fill etc , topped up gas done some shopping and thought I'd visit torremolinos as it's a place is heard of, I did find a roadside place to park there but after jade and I had been a cycle along the sea front etc I think I'd seen all it had to offer so we moved on .....kind of wish I'd just spent the night there though as couldn't find anywhere nice after that for absolutely miles , tried a few spots along the coast from park4night but they were all crap and ended up at some random aire in a village I'd not heard of with nothing in it ...so we spent Monday night there as it was getting late.
And then we headed for marbella Tuesday morning .....not an easy place to find a nice spot for a MH so we parked up in a wee village san pedro about 3km past Puerto banus which is the millionaires playground apparently. Porshes, bentleys, ferraris everywhere and folk with more money than sense .....still whatever floats your boat as they say and there were some lovely boats ....and some lovely posh totty which I checked out whilst sipping the most expensive beer I've had in spain €5 :eek::eek: and it wasn't even a pint.

But nice cycle runs from here along past marbella and I've been doing 20 to 25km a day for the last week or so :)

So here's some pics of the sand artists in torremolinos , the marina at torremolinos and then Puerto banus and Nikki beach marbella

Still here tonight it's a nice wee quiet spot parked roadside near some very expensive mansions but only myself and one other motorhome here and it overlooks the beach again ....lovely and quiet.
Not sure if I'll move tomorrow or Friday. ...have to watch my timing now as I've a friend flying over for a week from the 6th of June so I need to get him back at Malaga and then I need to head sort of back up to Murcia after that to get jade steralised in July.. .so I need to head down visit gibralter algeciras cadiz etc then inland for seville cordoba etc and back towards Malaga for June 6th
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hey I am sure Jade has grown since we last saw piccies of her ..she looks bigger :D
 
yeah the thing is when your with them all the time you don't notice it so much , but other people do (y)
 
Not sure if I'll move tomorrow or Friday. ...have to watch my timing now as I've a friend flying over for a week from the 6th of June so I need to get him back at Malaga and then I need to head sort of back up to Murcia after that to get jade steralised in July.. .so I need to head down visit gibralter algeciras cadiz etc then inland for seville cordoba etc and back towards Malaga for June 6th

SLOW DOWN!:eek:
We have til 4th june to get to just above Murcia (280km/175m in 17 days) for kids visiting. We are above Granada and looking if we have enough days!

You are not as bad as Ian T B but sounds a busy few weeks(y)
 
yeah the thing is when your with them all the time you don't notice it so much , but other people do (y)
I know well here's a pic of her on my knee to compare
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Cracking pics again, lovely story and so good to have you back. Hope i'm still trecking when i'm that age!!!
 
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh the wanderer returns,
 
Cracking pics again, lovely story and so good to have you back. Hope i'm still trecking when i'm that age!!!
Whit????? Your nearly 50% aulder than me ya cheeky bugger

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Good to see you back and looking forward to reading more of your travels(y)

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Sixty odd pages ago :whistle:

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...and today

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I'd say she's grown a bit :D2.



...and it's about time you changed your shorts young man :rolleyes:.
Hmmm maybe a little bit

Ha ha yes these are my most practical shorts as they are cargos and I like the pockets

But they do get washed. ......im no a minger honest :p
 
Hmmm maybe a little bit

Ha ha yes these are my most practical shorts as they are cargos and I like the pockets

But they do get washed. ......im no a minger honest :p

My favourite shorts are m&s shorts, I have lots of pairs and mostly the same colour, I bet people think I’ve had them on all week...:lipssealed:
 
My favourite shorts are m&s shorts, I have lots of pairs and mostly the same colour, I bet people think I’ve had them on all week...:lipssealed:
I only brought 10 pairs of shorts with me :p none are the same but 5 are swim shorts with only 1 pocket in them, I've 3 pairs of denim shorts 2 are ok but one pair is way too thick and too warm really then there are these ones and a grey pair I mostly swap with
The extra pockets are handy for carrying dog balls and poo bags lol.
But as I've been living in vest tops and shorts now the last 2 or 3 weeks I just hand wash stuff and hang it up in the en suite :p and they are dry next day.

It's good now we have consistent weather.

I've brought so much clothes with me and I'll likely never wear most of them.

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