Thursday 22 February 2024
All too quickly our road trip has, sadly, come to an end. Our Spain - Portugal - Spain sandwich has ended in San Sebastián, the weather is taking a turn for the worse and it’s time to head for home.
Our first couple of weeks in Spain, at the beginning of January, were spent driving south of the Pyrenees and heading west along the north coast towards Galicia. My sister asked me for our itinerary before we left, we knew which direction we were going in but not where the road would take us. This was what I sent her for our first month!
After leaving Portugal just over 2 weeks ago we’ve driven 1750 miles through some amazing scenery in central Spain. We’ve visited sophisticated cities, imposing fortress protected towns, medieval settlements and the remains of Roman era sites.
The landscape has varied enormously from stubby vineyards to lush olive groves, terraces of cherry trees to vast wheat fields. There’s been mountains, rivers, hot springs, waterfalls, palaces, castles, monasteries and museums - but there’s still so much more to see.
Rioja Region
I couldn’t have done even a rough itinerary of this last part of our trip for my sister but looking back at where we’ve been it would look vaguely like this!
Our very rough route through central Spain
We’ll come back to Spain I’m sure to explore the eastern and southern parts of the country and, who knows, we may even venture into Morocco! I hope you’ve enjoyed my little musings and photographs - thanks for coming along for the ride with us.
Small van - big world (he did come back to get me!)
No comments:
Post a Comment