Spain/Portugal where are you?

I visited these spots in person in the Spring of 2017 and was very impressed with what I found.

It's a great coastline to visit :D
 
after ian took us to the hills yesterday’s today we spent in the valleys by the river beaches FF88B49B-D6F6-4A0A-B0C0-A4179124C129.jpgD62B5C85-78E7-42A8-BABF-04D7FFF4E6B1.jpg
 
we called in to ian (stitch) portugese estate on wednesday for the night and have stayed five days he has been the perfect host taking us all around this beautifull area and introduced us to his friends for meals etc been a great time but now time to move on going to the local vineyard this morning then onto Coimbra pronounced (quimbra) (B932A54D-4938-47D8-A75C-03846C9D5AE8.jpg9E91BD46-755F-4FC6-9758-6D37B3724BD4.jpg
 
Sounds great Ken. It's hot and dry down here. You're in the right place.
Coimbra is well worth a visit.
If you fancy a sideshow, look at Conimbriga, nearby..." The best preserved Roman ruins in Portugal ".... Quite a story behind it.
Should be worth an overnight stop ?
 
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The Silver Machine is parked up in a nice Aire, organised in individual parking bays, in Zamora (AF) in POIs. Zamora is a real gem, we only really stopped here for one night as it was a convenient aire on the way to Salamanca and we’ve stayed two. The older part, a short walk away, contains loads of Romanesque buildings, a unique cathedral and ruined castle, all contained within walls dating back to the 9th century. We stayed in an Aire in Leon two nights ago and Ponferrada the night previously. both (AF) in the POIs. I would recommend both. They each have services and had a decent nights sleep in both. Surprised in Leon as it’s pretty central and across from a shopping centre (with supermarket). You need to get to Leon by lunchtime. It’s 20 spaces, some limited in size by tree branches. We got the last decent space at about 12.45pm. Motorhomes were still arriving, in the dark, about 10pm and had to move on some place else.
 
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Hi, we’re currently in Baeza, about an hours drive north of Granada, a town we’d never heard of a few days ago, but our 1999 edition guide book said it was nice, there are 2 free Aires in town, so here we are. We are in the new aire behind the bus station, good drive over services, and handy for the town and large día supermarket.
Weve been in Aires in Merida, Zafra and Cordoba (all in POIs). I would recommend all but Merida is 12€ and Cordoba at 2€ per night, no services, is basically a car, bus, lorry park and has the potential to be pretty noisy. We were lucky I think.
We are on our way to Toleda where we have booked into Camping el Greco for 4 nights as we have friends flying into Madrid to join us for the weekend.
 
Yes, The historic towns ,being always busy, regularly charge, where less attractive towns are free and want your custom.
Still Cordoba Mosque and the old town, Toledo, too ,are very tourist orientated. It's worth paying for a couple of nights, to experience it all. Merida is a bit pricy, but, off season ,you can park in the town, if you want to visit the Roman attractions. You probably could avoid the aire.
If you're into that kind of thing.. Google Cuenca. There's a POI on the top the hill.
Get there before the weather turns cold.
 
Hullo all.
We have a number of vans on their way down, some first timers amongst them.
There's so much knowledge, let's share our experiences.

We're staying in the East Algarve. Always happy to help, if we can.
 
on the way back last month we stayed just outside merida picked a parking place out of park 4 night it was alongside the roman dam which supplied merida 11kms away lovely spot as well as free,
 
Used it quite frequently, Ken .
Lovely place to take Molly for a walk..

Somehow we're never passing by it at knocking off time. There's so many quiet stopping places on the old N630 road, an easy pull off from the motorway. The Santiago Pilgrims and touring cyclists use it, so there's plenty of nice places to sample the local cuisine.
 
Albufeira, about a 15 minute stroll into the town centre.

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Here for a couple of weeks, visitor coming from the UK, before travelling up to see Jòse and his family, on to Ian's and finally travelling up the Druro in the New Year.

All advice and guidance most welcome

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Douro ! new year 🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀!!! be careful your not being lulled in to a false sense of good weather we had minus 5 in salamanca in january couple of years back,
just before Coimbra the roman ruins paul is promoting a page back is well worth a visit we cheekily overnighted there without a problem,
 
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Douro ! new year 🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀!!! be careful your not being lulled in to a false sense of good weather we had minus 5 in salamanca in january couple of years back,
just before Coimbra the roman ruins paul is promoting a page back is well worth a visit we cheekily overnighted there without a problem,
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Take your thermals, Ed.
Good advice from Ken.

We Algarve Softies rarely venture north of Lisbon before the end of April.
 
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It is safe under tyre but just cold in the van or... ?
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We went over the tops from Vila Formosa, via Castello Rodrigo, early May..
Spectacular journey, but the deciduous trees hadn't broken into leaf.
The whole plateau was barren and grey.
Once we'd dropped down, it all burst into greenery.
Brilliant aire at Regua..
Leave the van , train or ferry to Porto.. Treat yourself to a couple of nights in a central hotel and do the tourist bit.
 
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It is safe under tyre but just cold in the van or... ?
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weather is weather ed we got to the algarve one year late march lovely weather hadn’t rained since before christmas, a week later it started raining & didn’t stop for a week so next year we went middle of february & it was awful tilll april 1st as they says you pays your money, on the main roads Spain seems to have snow ploughs parked on each hill if their expecting snow
 
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