Okay today was travel day. Plan is to bus it from Bilbao Spain to san sabastien Spain which is located in northern Spain close to France. (Julie) Sue and (gopher) Kerry have researched our travel route leaving Nuevo Linda (Spanish for lovely bride) and her Sherpa (me) to obliviously follow along. First we walked 10 minutes to the tram then hoped on, expecting to pay someone. No one to be found so freebie it was. Cha-Ching schlamper up 3 euros. 5 sto...

Okay today is a bad travel, day but that happens. I will blame Kerry for this, but deep deep down I don’t believe it’s his fault. Don’t get me wrong tO his face I’m berating him for his poor planning. Today up at 430 for 5am shuttle pick up for a 650 am take off from Madeira to Porto. Then a 11 hour layover until our flight up Bilbao Spain takes off So here we sit Over their we sat Let’s watch swinging door repairman work. One screwdriver b...

Today was “Safari Madeira” day which is a full day safari from hotel overtop the mountains to the northwest corner of Madeira. All this in an open air 4x4 Jeep vehicle. Pickup up 830am and one more couple and off we go with Kerry/sue on one side of back bench Dom and I the other The ride and view was incredible. Our driver explained the history of island and how they used fire to burn down areas of the forest 600 years ago, so they could start building...

Today is recovery day from previous day of “too much”. You see yesterday we decided to save 15 euros and walk down a mountain rather can take a waiting taxi. No wait, 7.50euros per couple as we could shared the cab making it 3.75 euros per person. Well actually less because while saving the 7.50 euros (Dom/ me) we grabbed a drink for 1.20euros on our way down. So our ride down the friggin mountain would of been 6.20 euros or 3.60 per person . Subt...

Today Oh boy up at 3:30am for 4 am shuttle to airport for 6 am flight to Madeira Portugul by Tapp air, which is a portugees airline, very nice 1 hr 45 minute flight Shuttle ride in a BMW mini van. The ride was scary (or so we thought at the time) with our driver again driving his vehicle up and down roads like he stole it. We arrived shaken but not deterred. Our Airbnb is a very nice two bedroom two bath suite with a strained head and neck view of the ocean...