The sky is a bit cloudy with a few drops of rain in the air, but it is getting warmer through the morning. We don't have far to go so it's 11:30 when we pack up and leave. We stop in Aldi in Alcantarhia and then at a fuel station to top up the LPG, before driving along main roads which are much quieter as it is Saturday. There are the usual orange stalls in many lay-bys and the fields are full of blossom. We also see a number of storks in nests. We reach the...

Yesterday the sink, today the water heater won't fire up. We check gas and the heater's fuses but no joy, and the delay means we don't leave until 11:30 We drive through Faro - very busy and Portuguese drivers are impatient and unpredictable - and go on to a motorhome accessory shop N+G know and want to visit. All along the roads are stalls with huge piles of oranges for sale. After buying a few bits we go into Albuferia looking for somewhere to stop for lunc...

A lovely bright, sunny morning greets us as we hear the town clock chiming 08:00 confirming our new time zone. Ali goes to wash, and Nick hears "Oh!" from the bathroom. As she put the plug in the sink the waste trap broke clean out of the bottom. We get a couple of visits from locals selling oranges and strawberries as the two Nicks fashion a repair with large plastic washers cut from an empty pork scratching tub. We dive to Cabanas and find parking at the en...

We leave the lovely marina location on the outskirts of Seville and drive a mile to the supermarket, where the Nicks are abandoned in the carpark for almost an hour, before joining the A-49 which will take us right into Portugal. On the way there are many orange and lemon plantations. We cross a number large bridges over small trickles of water or completely dried river beds. There are also large areas of sand pines with carpets of yellow flowers [a bit li...