Spain and Portugal 2019

North Again – Back Through Spain From Galicia to Santillana del Mar and back into France Our route north took us through Santiago de Compostela, the ultimate destination of all those Camino pilgrims we had passed a couple of weeks earlier. We actually drove straight through the city and, somewhat […]

North Across Spain   Recently updated!

West to the Coast – Caminha Leaving the heat of inland Portugal for the Minho and the Atlantic After five days in Bragança, we had had enough of the heat. And the dust. Especially the dust. So we packed up the tent, shook out as much fine red Portuguese dirt […]

West to the Coast – Caminha   Recently updated!

Into Portugal – Heat, Dust and Bragança Puebla de Sanabria to Bragança through the mountains From Puebla de Sanabria we turned south towards Portugal. On the map it didn’t look particularly dramatic. The road had other ideas. Almost immediately we found ourselves winding through mountains and deep valleys, the road […]

Into Portugal – Heat, Dust and Bragança   Recently updated!

Across the Pyrenees and Into Spain Oloron-Sainte-Marie to Puebla de Sanabria We were up early. There was a long day ahead of us and, more importantly, breakfast needed to be dealt with. A visit to the local boulangerie produced a quiche, which seemed an entirely reasonable way to start the […]

Across the Pyrenees and Into Spain   Recently updated!

Apparently Six Months of Travelling Wasn’t Enough The Dordogne to Oloron-Sainte-Marie – and the road to Spain Having spent the previous six months travelling across half the world, much of it on trains, you might have thought we would be ready to stay put for a while. Apparently not. We […]

Spain & Portugal 2019   Recently updated!