France & Spain October 2025 - The Return

It might be a bit early to be planning the return for a holiday that we haven't started yet and that's a month away! But one needs to have a look at the maps and suss out places to stop that aren't too far apart, or requite driving all day and also that mean you see little or nothing of the countryside.

That's why I try and avoid motorways where possible, and toll motorways in particular. Okay, you can speed along and cover long distances.  For a lot of the time you only get to see  the road stretching away in front of you and often just a bank of grass where they have tried to hide the road from view!

The rough route that I have planned from Kione Playa in Alcossebre to Calais Ferry Port takes in a route we haven't done before.  Well, some of it we have but not for many years. At the moment I have planned stops at Camping-Car Park aires, although once the route is cut down to each day (from an overall route) then we can refine, and I like the idea of the France Passion sites. So I may make some changes where I can.

Once thing we can't change is the Irish Ferries boat back home. That date's pretty much set in stone. Another consideration is Reggie's worming and passport stamping. It has to be done between 24 and 120 hours before we land in UK.  I like to give it a couple of days.  This year we are going to try a different vet to see what they are like.  They are based in Denderleeuw.  

More work needs doing and I will take the small laptop with me when I go to work on it it the evenings.