{"id":7835,"date":"2025-03-24T14:12:44","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T14:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/?p=7835"},"modified":"2025-04-16T09:14:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T09:14:33","slug":"eurotrip-14-2025-journey-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/?p=7835","title":{"rendered":"Eurotrip 14, 2025 \u2013 Journey Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We left Camping El Astral at Tordesillas on Friday morning for a 4 hour journey to the coast. We had booked a night at Camping Helguero before our ferry crossing at 13:00 on Saturday. We arrived at Helguero campsite (near the pretty port of Comillas) early in the afternoon and the weather was warm and sunny. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some cables under the caravan had worked loose so balancing the caravan on a grassy ledge, I sent Moe under the van to carry out repairs.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1021\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG20250321154852-1021x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7838\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG20250321154852-1021x768.jpg 1021w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG20250321154852-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG20250321154852-768x578.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG20250321154852-1536x1155.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG20250321154852-2048x1540.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG20250321154852-767x577.jpg 767w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1021px) 100vw, 1021px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Repairs to Ruby at Camping Helguero, Comillas, Spain 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1021\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG20250321154838-1021x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7839\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG20250321154838-1021x768.jpg 1021w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG20250321154838-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG20250321154838-768x578.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG20250321154838-1536x1155.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG20250321154838-2048x1540.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG20250321154838-767x577.jpg 767w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1021px) 100vw, 1021px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Repairs to Ruby at Camping Helguero, Comillas, Spain 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The break in the stormy weather didn&#8217;t last too long and by the morning, the campsite was a quagmire. <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1021\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG20250322092842-1021x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7837\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG20250322092842-1021x768.jpg 1021w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG20250322092842-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG20250322092842-768x578.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG20250322092842-1536x1155.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG20250322092842-2048x1540.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG20250322092842-767x577.jpg 767w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1021px) 100vw, 1021px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Wet start to Saturday, Helguero campsite, Spain 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>This set the scene for a very stormy crossing over the Bay of Biscay. Joe spent the first 18 hours lying on his bed!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our arrival at Portsmouth was precisely on schedule at 20:00 and we were one of the first outfits off &#8211; before 9pm we had pitched up on our ferry pitch at Rookesbury park CAMC site. An uneventful tow back to East Devon and we arrived home around 2pm, Monday 24th March 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1021\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG20250324094114-1021x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7836\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG20250324094114-1021x768.jpg 1021w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG20250324094114-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG20250324094114-768x578.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG20250324094114-1536x1155.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG20250324094114-2048x1540.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG20250324094114-767x577.jpg 767w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1021px) 100vw, 1021px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Rookesbury Park CAMC Ferry pitch, Spain 2025 trip<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Another great way to spend winter and the beautiful weather which greeted us in England was in sharp contrast to rather wet winter in Spain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hasta el proximo ano&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We left Camping El Astral at Tordesillas on Friday morning for a 4 hour journey to the coast. We had booked a night at Camping Helguero before our ferry crossing at 13:00 on Saturday. We arrived at Helguero campsite (near the pretty port of Comillas) early in the afternoon and the weather was warm and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/?p=7835\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Eurotrip 14, 2025 \u2013 Journey Home<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2025-spain","category-2025-europe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7835"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7848,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7835\/revisions\/7848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}