Corsica is known as the ‘Island of Beauty’ and I’d add an adjective in there – the ‘Island of terrifying Beauty’ due to the crazy roads carved high but not deep in the jagged mountain tops, which are the only means to access the beauty of the island (the seaside and mountain villages, beaches and hiking trails). There is a little train that runs between some of the major towns […]
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 […]