As Brexit casts its travelling shadow on us we are balancing the time that we might spend travelling in the Schengen zone with staying in our Nerja home. We've decided that travelling in Portugal with the 'van works if we spend less time in Nerja in the spring, planning to use almost all of the 90 days allowed in the previous 180. Unfortunately this will impact on the time we can spend in Nerja during September/October.
So - after a couple of trips to Nerja up to March, if all goes to plan, we'll be heading for Portugal via France and Spain for around five weeks, meeting up with our daughter and partner in Lisbon, from where they're working for a couple of months. We'll work out the rough itinerary soon.
The trip won't be with our car of eight years - our much loved, powerful, comfortable VW Touareg; we've downsized. We now have a Volvo XC60 Recharge - which is a plug in hybrid with a 2 litre turbo petrol engine. It won't have the lugging power of the 3 litre diesel Touareg but should do the job while allowing local electric only trips back home. I've sat behind a 3 litre diesel in various forms for some 20 years so, for me, it's quite a change. Still, it's controlled by a Google driven touch screen which is a bit of a novelty and it goes like stink when asked to perform so we'll see how it goes with 1.7 tonnes on the back... Watch this space; OK Google?
