Category: A Spanish/Portuguese Meander 2025
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Catalonia to the Basque Country
From Andorra we began winding our way across Catalonia to San Sebastián on the Bay of Biscay. the Pyrenees remained impressive for our drive. We wound our way through tiny hill top towns, always topped with a church, through fields of hay and grazing cattle and deep ravines where roaring water pushed through sheer rock…
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Sleeping to the sound of cow bells, Andorra Explorer
Last night we stayed in the capital of Andorra, Andorra da La Vella. It really gives an odd first impression of the country. It’s all very newly built, there are loads of prestige car dealers, high end investment banks, brand shopping and difficult parking (which is not good when you are in a 2.3m tall…
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Montserrat to Andorra, pilgrims and tax havens
Monday morning started with some life admin for the van, the AdBlue light had come up on the dash and we needed to get some coolant, of course these things combined well with coffee and breakfast, so by late morning we were on the road again. It’s a short drive from Barcelona to Montserrat, winding…
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A Catalonian ramble
I landed in Barcelona on Saturday around 1:30pm, so after some significant hours of flying or in transit in Dubai….. my head took some time to catch up with me on the ground. I stumbled out of the airport and somehow Lesley and I managed to find each other relatively quickly and we were away…
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A new trip begins to take shape
I’m not sure how Lesley and I decided that we might take a trip across northern Spain and down to Lisbon in Portugal in a campervan sounds like an interesting way to meander across 3 countries (Andorra counts!), so why not?! So we will be taking ourselves where ever the wind shall blow and where…
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