Every year thousands of people walk many miles from all corners of Europe on a pilgrimage like no other, to Santiago de Compostela in Galicia, Spain. The “Camino de Santiago” is possibly the world’s most famous pilgrimage and one that we have been wishing to walk for many years. This pilgrimage has existed for over one thousand years, along many different routes and all culminate at Santiago de Compostela in Northern Spain.
The American film “The Way”, directed by
Portugal is a beautiful country, friendly and very affordable. If you have been following this blog you will know that we have been driving through the length and breadth of this country. Our six week motorhome road trip here has been wonderful. We found that particularly the central and northern regions to be the most authentic and these regions have fast became our favourite areas for exploring by motorhome or by car…or in fact by any mode of transport. Here we found a
The Douro, a river made famous by a very unique product: Port Wine. Tasting the Douro Valley with its many wine varieties became our mission during our visit to this incredible wine producing region. Although wine production is not the only interesting thing to see in this area.
The green rolling hills of the Douro Valley with its slopping terraces brimming with grape vines are famed for being one of the worlds best drives…well, we can certainly attest to that, but it is also one of the hardest,