Spain/Portugal where are you?

Our plan as far as we have one includes the Douro valley me Porto jan not in any order I would quite like to visit the Templar castle at Tomar again might just go & sit on a couple of barragems depending on the weather

,Porto, Why not...?.... Before it gets too wintery.
Leave the van on the cracking aire at Peso de Regua... 3 Euros a night, with hookup.. Free without.
Take the train one way, boat the other, if possible. Book.a city centre hotel,on booking.com, about an hour before you're due to arrive.. Ring me,if you fancy giving yourselves a treat.
 
Ps. There's an easy route, via BRAGANÇA.....( CORRECTION )
Or the white knuckle ride that shadows the river.. How brave are you...it'll be worth it ...
We went in the difficult way, out the easy way,as we were going north.
 
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as seasoned travellers know there is a single road racing down from irun to seville 600 mls or 9 hrs hard driving on our way up and down we have used the aires in palencia overnight as a natural break, this trip we have gone of the main route to the beautifull old town of Ampudia timber overhangs on all the old buildings and there ripping up the tarmac to replace it with old fashioned style block paving beautiful, the aire is free with al the wet services and there’s even a medieval castle 100 yards from the aire, image.jpg
 
We're on the aire at Castro Marim.
Be warned, there's a 3 METRE height limit on the Guardiana Bridge.. Big works afoot on the structure.
Portuguese for " Duck " is " Pato ".... Lee.
 
Well I have so enjoyed catch up reading this thread.

After an aborted trip last year (Reasons beyond my control) I am all set to begin the long haul down to Sun, Sea and Sangria.


I am planning to head down and over the channel after 'Giants' in Liverpool, so should be on French soil by on or just after 11th of October. Meeting up with Full Timer and Steve for the intitial bit, as they have kindly offered to help me find my feet.

A very basic, subject to much change, route of down through France, across Northern Spain, into Portugal and along the Duro, down the Atlantic coast, across the Algarve, back up the Costas, with the odd detour and finally back up through France.

Aiming to be back in the UK no later than the start of March, In time for Legends of Rock 2019 at Great Yarmouth.


I am one of lifes potterers and so bearing that in mind, all advice and guidance most welcome and meet ups along the way.



Chat and see you all soon


Ed sur du Pain Grillé
 
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I hope I have not cursed another excellent thread with a TOASTY LONG POST , sorry I will keep it short next time :egg:
 
Enjoy your European adventure Mr Toast. We won't be going south until February but who knows we may have the chance to meet up..
 
we were over in france just after the 12.5%hike in fuel duty and although that impacted on the fuel price didn’t seem to have affected the rest of the economy,this trip the impact of that is felt everywhere aka ‘if you’ve got it it came by road’ food wine etc has risen in price since we were last here in april and now they are removing the exemption of vat from hgvs or commercials above 3.5ton stand by for another round of price increases,
 
Well I have so enjoyed catch up reading this thread.

After an aborted trip last year (Reasons beyond my control) I am all set to begin the long haul down to Sun, Sea and Sangria.


I am planning to head down and over the channel after 'Giants' in Liverpool, so should be on French soil by on or just after 11th of October. Meeting up with Full Timer and Steve for the intitial bit, as they have kindly offered to help me find my feet.

A very basic, subject to much change, route of down through France, across Northern Spain, into Portugal and along the Duro, down the Atlantic coast, across the Algarve, back up the Costas, with the odd detour and finally back up through France.

Aiming to be back in the UK no later than the start of March, In time for Legends of Rock 2019 at Great Yarmouth.


I am one of lifes potterers and so bearing that in mind, all advice and guidance most welcome and meet ups along the way.



Chat and see you all soon


Ed sur du Pain Grillé

I very much hope you mean me, Full Member.
Because I'm really looking forward to your company, Ed - and so is Steve!

Colin 😊😊😊

 
I hope I have not cursed another excellent thread with a TOASTY LONG POST , sorry I will keep it short next time :egg:

Short ?
That was terse, compared with some of our enthusiastic posts on here.
Toast in Portuguese.. Pâo Torrada.
 
Well I have so enjoyed catch up reading this thread.

After an aborted trip last year (Reasons beyond my control) I am all set to begin the long haul down to Sun, Sea and Sangria.


I am planning to head down and over the channel after 'Giants' in Liverpool, so should be on French soil by on or just after 11th of October. Meeting up with Full Timer and Steve for the intitial bit, as they have kindly offered to help me find my feet.

A very basic, subject to much change, route of down through France, across Northern Spain, into Portugal and along the Duro, down the Atlantic coast, across the Algarve, back up the Costas, with the odd detour and finally back up through France.

Aiming to be back in the UK no later than the start of March, In time for Legends of Rock 2019 at Great Yarmouth.


I am one of lifes potterers and so bearing that in mind, all advice and guidance most welcome and meet ups along the way.



Chat and see you all soon


Ed sur du Pain Grillé

You might consider changing your route around Iberia from anti-clockwise to clockwise. In other words Spain-Portugal-Spain.

The Atlantic coast is much more pleasant in Spring than Autumn according to my investigation. I changed my mind when I circumnavigated the peninsula over the Winter of 2016/2017 ....
 
Us softy Algarve bunnies, say.... " Never go north of Lisbon between November and April "...
 
North Spain

We arrived in Bilbao from Portsmouth on Thursday. If the weather was good plan A is to tour along the north coast. As it was 30 degrees driving out of Bilbao, we thought that was good enough for plan A so tonight we are in a campsite, Camping les Sauses Playa, Ribadsella. Initially we thought we might stop at San Vicente 2 but missed the entrance and decided to head for Llanes. The aire there was closed because of a Rally Car Show. So we came to Ribasella to find the CU temporarily closed. Basically we decided to check in here for 17€ a night before we ran out of Spain, or daylight whatever came first! Oh and there’s a cycling route we want to have a go at tomorrow.
 
Nearly there.

Hi all,

Laruns tonight, then a run down the D934 tomorrow crossing into Spain at Pourtalet. We won’t go far, probably stop at Sallent de Gallego which looks nice.

I love parking in the foothills of mountain ranges -

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Pat
 
having bored you with my favourite place in france this is one of my portugal favourites well actually i have so many portugal favourites this has to be my favourite northern portugal stop, it is parked under the battlements at Braganca a fortified town bottom terrace view over the valley pretty close to heaven , 4F88F38A-A2CE-4F54-B7ED-1323E0BDD825.jpg
 
Now back up in France at Souillac after drifting through the med coast. One place I would recommend is aire at Castellón . It has been extended by doubling the pitches with a picnic area behind. Big plus is it’s free and about 100 metres from a fantastic beach. There is potable water and emptying both grey and black plus a WC .2884FAE4-E9FB-4469-B6B5-FA1E59858B58.jpg
 
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having bored you with my favourite place in france this is one of my portugal favourites well actually i have so many portugal favourites this has to be my favourite northern portugal stop, it is parked under the battlements at Braganca a fortified town bottom terrace view over the valley pretty close to heaven , View attachment 67741

Agree, Ken.
We had 2 nights R&R there, after our Porto jaunt.
Lovely place. Good, cheap local grub.
Are you going to do the Porto visit ?
 
we are aiming to visit porto can’t overnight in the city with molly along but we’re told can park at port and get ferry in then tram back hope to stay here till monday then float down towards vila real explore some wine and end up in porto midweek
 

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