7.5 months of living in a motorhome and we’ve had an absolutely marvellous time. My only regret is that it’s only been 7 months. We’ve covered 3 countries, 4 if you include Gibraltar, Working 40+ hours a week has slowed us down but that has been fine. I found living and working in a motorhome quite easy to do. Working in Portugal was not easy because the Internet is absolutely awful, luckily for 2 weeks of Portugal I was on annual leave.

It’s hard to name the best place but it would be between the Pyrenees, Sierra Nevada, and Picos de Europa or the area around Caminito del Rey. These seem to have one thing in common – steep hills/ mountainous areas.
So what cities? My favourites have to be Lisbon and Porto along with Combria, interestingly these are all in Portugal. In France I liked Nantes City but it’s not up there at the tops.

Tourist traps and small towns? Mont St Michel despite it being a very cold wet February day. France has some fantastic fairytale castle towns my favorite being Guérande. Besalú in Spain is a small town and if you’re ever in the area visit it. My favourite coastal resort has got to be the resort of Alcossebre in Spain.
We’ve done our fair share of coastal towns mainly as we stuck to populated area to ensure internet access. I would like to do this trip unencumbered by work not only from the point of view of time but also freedom to move inland where we’d be off the grid. As we’ve gone on we’ve got braver and spent less time plugged into electricity, using the solar panels and the gas as our form of energy, but we have no choice to be on the internet as I simply cannot work without it. I found working difficult because it’s quite hard to stop in an evening when you don’t have a band or kayaking to go to. Sightseeing gets pushed around a working day slowing progress.

So what about the places we have stayed, France it was always “aires” a fancy car park where you can get your chairs out, you have services and normally electrics for around €10 a night. Northern Spain tend to be downgraded campsites with all the facilities and costing about €15 a night. As you move through Spain and into Portugal we started getting more and more free areas with no electricity just the service points. However some of them did have electricity and stopping in a car park that provides electricity and water for €0 is ok by me. We have stopped in some strange places, one of the most peculiar one’s was a town centre car park by the bus station, getting up as the commuters go to work and sitting at the desk working as the shoppers stroll past. I’m certainly looking forward to the next stage of this trip which will start early next year.