We had a very eclectic trip around Spain in May that started in the Pyrenees on the west coast of France as we drove into beautiful Basque country on the west coast of the Atlantic ocean. We then took in some splendid towns along the Asturias, before parking our car in Sarria and traipsing through medieval villages in the south west on the Camino de Santiago for a week. Then […]
We spent a week in May exploring Portugal from the verdant Duoro Valley across to Porto on the Atlantic coast, down to the busy Lisboa area then along the southern coast to the pointy tip of Sagres and the beachy coves of Lagos. We crossed the border from Spain near Chavres and our first stop was in Alijo in the Duoro valley where a quietly spoken gentleman at the Tourismo […]
Our most challenging and enlightening adventure to date must be our week in Iceland, which we visited in late March 2024. The ‘Around Iceland’ visitors guide has a welcome note from Lilja Dögg Alfreðsdóttir, the Minister of Culture and Business Affairs which sums up the country nicely: “every day there is an adventure waiting to happen in Iceland. With its abundance of mountains, glaciers, rivers, lakes, caves and otherwise rough […]