Perpignan is a French town that used to be Spanish! And you can definitely feel the Catalan /Spanish influence in the food, the language, the architecture and the historical monuments around town. Perpignan wasn’t just Spanish however, It started out as the capital of the Kings of Mallorca – and the palace they built (Le Palais des Rois de Majorque) is still standing and in good nick today. The region […]
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 […]
