{"id":3059,"date":"2018-06-03T12:04:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-03T11:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samsonandsuzi.com\/2018\/06\/03\/moving-on-up-to-oia-spain\/"},"modified":"2021-06-17T21:50:45","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T20:50:45","slug":"moving-on-up-to-oia-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samsonandsuzi.com\/?p=3059","title":{"rendered":"Moving On Up To Oia, Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"

We moved to a beautiful part of the Spanish coast, facing the Atlantic, about 30 miles north of the Portuguese Border and stopped here for ten days. The site was so relaxing, our pitch was facing the sea and about 10 metres above the sea level, we spent so much time outside watching the rocks and rock pools appearing and disappearing, the mist rolling in and out, the sun setting and rising and just listening to the waves crashing into the rocks.<\/span><\/p>\n

The site was layered in grassy stretches, and the site filled at the weekend with families enjoying the pool and the sea. We made friends with a lady who owned the most beautiful cat ever, a Bengal Tiger that cost her \u0080800, he was 8 months old and loved to wander around on his lead. We visited a few local towns, Baiona and A Guarda and visited some historic sites, but most of our time was spent relaxing and watching the views, even late at night!<\/span><\/p>\n

Site Pictures<\/span><\/h3>\n

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View from the rocks of our trailer.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Some of the amazing rock pools.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Rock pool contents.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Sunset at the site.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Photo of the bay, taken about midnight.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Our view from inside the trailer.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Daily strokes with this fella!!!<\/p><\/div>\n

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Oia’s monastery, now left to the forces of nature.<\/p><\/div>\n

Baiona (pronounced Bay-on-na)<\/span><\/h3>\n

This small seaside town is dominated by an old fort that has been renovated to accommodate a 4* hotel and restaurant, with a small narrow street area behind the main parade, full of old buildings, squares, churches and tavernas. The fort is open to the public and you can walk the whole length of its walls; it is the only place we have ever seen a safety notice!<\/span><\/p>\n

We also met a very friendly seagull, who would not leave us alone….we had no food, yet it was happy for us to get within 3 feet of it before it flew away to the next stretch of wall to eye us up!<\/span><\/p>\n

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A Guarda (pronounced A Warr-da)<\/span><\/h3>\n

This small fishing town is home to the remains of an Iron Age settlement, right on the top of it’s mountain, overlooking the port below. The circular houses were built in stone and surrounded by a 2 layer security wall and only two entrances, with evidence of roads down to the port and river estuary. The area is fascinating, the museum was very interesting and whilst I was in there, got talking to a member of staff; he was strangely looking at a video and reading about Flag Fen boats (in Peterborough) so I told him that we lived there and introduced him to the information about Roman villages being found alongside the A14 expansion last year. He was so interested!! Talk about a small world!!<\/span><\/p>\n

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We moved to a beautiful part of the Spanish coast, facing the Atlantic, about 30 miles north of the Portuguese Border and stopped here for ten days. The site was so relaxing, our pitch was facing the sea and about 10 metres above the sea level, we spent so much time outside watching the rocks […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-spain","post-preview"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samsonandsuzi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samsonandsuzi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samsonandsuzi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samsonandsuzi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samsonandsuzi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.samsonandsuzi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4000,"href":"https:\/\/www.samsonandsuzi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3059\/revisions\/4000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samsonandsuzi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samsonandsuzi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samsonandsuzi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}