Granada, Cordoba, Seville

I hear you CY, but to retain my independence  I am becoming a convert to fly in somewhere, then trains, taxis, small town centre hotels, and eating in local restaurants.

Sure it costs more, but it saves those thousand mile drives, crowded campsites, city centre parking hassles, shopping and cooking - and avoids the tiresome journey we just had with storm delayed Brittany Ferries who didn't get us back to Plymouth till way past midnight a couple of days ago. 

Not for me afraid Cy,  I loathe organised trips, hate hotels. OH is the same, after 45 years military service he likes to go where he wants, stay as long as he wants eat when and what he wants.

We are not sailing until the 12th September, spending time travelling down from Roscoff.  Probably moving into Spain sometime in the first 2 weeks of October, weather dependent. No ferry booked for return but we have until the end of the first week in December so plenty of time to linger here and there.

I agree with LTC, I would hate to ordered around from venue to venue, much prefer to do things at my pace.

To be fair we are going for the weather, the cultural bits are just to fill in the time

I'm afraid that type of holiday is my worst nightmare.  Although we do fly out to Lanzarote each year it's to our apartment there and its for 3 weeks. We have a car for the duration so come and go as we please, just like at home but with the sunshine.

Going away in the van is pretty similar, stop when we want, leave when we want, we don't tend to do busy noisy sites didn't think you did either. 

At least in the van if you don't like your neighbours you can just move on,  on organised trips your stuck with them 

Tammygirl,   Can I suggest that you add Segovia to your itinerary ( probably before Toledo). Can’t remember the name of the site but it was  an easy cycle into the centre.

Thanks MikeyA, will look at that.

The site at Segovia is El Acueducto; nothing special but easily accessible and only 250 meters from the bus stop into town. 

Thank you 

"A visit to Jerez is also on the cards (must look online to see if there is a show) "

We  just missed the 2pm English visit so took a photograph instead!

We visited Cordoba earlier this year and stayed at Camping Albolafia in Villafranca de Cordoba. It is about 15km from Cordoba and is an easy drive along the motorway to get to the town. If you have a campervan there is a regular bus service from the town about 500m from the site. Lots of campervanners used it.

The site is a good standard and we enjoyed it. Would recommend it and would go back. If you go to Cordoba the Mezquita is a must. Enjoy!

Thanks Dellboy, I think that's the site we are looking at using good to know about the bus as I believe its not easy parking in Cordoba.