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Having lazed around at Peniche for a couple of days, it was time to do a little more driving and head inland. Our first destination was the cumbersomely-named but scenic Parque Natural das Serras de Aire e Candeeiros. As its name suggests, this natural park contains two mountain ranges – the … [Read more...]
On leaving Ribeira d'Ilhas, we retraced our route for a couple of kilometres to use the motorhome service point at Ericeira. This is located by a garage and is free. It uses a Euro Mini Relais type service point that provides fresh water, grey water disposal and toilet waste (black waste) emptying … [Read more...]
The day dawned cloudy and we decided to head back inland towards Lisbon to visit Sintra. Sintra’s Palacio Nacional was once the summer residence of the Portuguese royal family – Sintra is close to Lisbon but up in the hills where the weather is cooler. These days, Sintra is a major … [Read more...]
Leaving Pego do Altar, we headed up the IP1 and then west along the IP7 towards Setubal, Lisbon and the Atlantic west coast of Portugal. Our ultimate destination was Cabo da Roca, the most westerly point on mainland Europe. The first are of interest was the Parque Natural da Arrabida, an area … [Read more...]
Leaving Luz, we set course for the Barragem de Alqueva. This dam created the largest man-made reservoir in Europe and is a monumental piece of engineering. An entire village - Luz - plus numerous other buildings, roads and geographical features were submerged to create the reservoir. While the … [Read more...]
We left Caceres, via Carrefour (more strawberries...) and McDonald's (more WiFi) again. I would tell you how to find them but alas, our route was unnecessarily circuitous and we did get slightly lost before we got there. Follow the signs for Centro Commercial or alternatively the … [Read more...]
The day dawned fresh and sunny and we headed straight to the Monfrague National Park. The main attraction of this place is its birds – particularly vultures, eagles and rare black storks. Although we aren't big bird watchers, the idea of seeing big birds of prey in the wild proved irresistible and … [Read more...]
Leaving Avila at the not-too-early time of 0930, we picked up the N502 and set course for the Sierra de Gredos Regional Park. We took the route across the top of the park on the AV-941 (also called the CL-500 - not sure why Spanish roads often have two names). We then turned south onto the N-110 … [Read more...]
Leaving the ferry around 0830, Bilbao's rush hour traffic made itself known but caused no great problems – navigation out of the port (situated just north of Bilbao at Santurtzi) and down to the motorway was pretty straightforward. Our first day's route took us past Burgos and Valladolid … [Read more...]
We recently completed a month-long motorhome tour of Spain & Portugal. Now we're back in the real world, I thought I would share with you some of the highlights of our 2,800 mile trip. The trip started with a long journey from the north of England down to Portsmouth. In fact, UK driving to … [Read more...]
