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 […]
We love walking, especially multi-day hikes so we thought we’d better give one of the most famous walks in Europe a crack and do a section of the Camino de Santiago. We walked 115kms of the Frances way from Sarria to Santiago de Compostella over 5 days and nights. Our days on the Camino had a nice easy rhythm, waking each day around 7am, doing our stretches, and heading off […]
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 […]