Iberian Images
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The Road Trip
In April 2013 we did a three week road trip around the Iberian Peninsula - Spain and Portugal.
Museum of Ham - MADRID
We started in Madrid, then south to Cordoba, and Ronda – the town that sits on a precipice.
ronda
And Grenada for the Alhambra.
part of the alhambra
Next was Tarifa (via a quick stop in Gibraltar) on the southern coast of Spain. Tarifa is only a 1 hour ferry ride away from Tangier in Morocco, so we went for lunch!
rooftop restaurant in tangier
It was then west to Seville before heading into Portugal – the Algave (overnighting at Monchique), Lisbon, Porto and Parque Nacional da Peneda Geres in the far north of the country.
lisbon
Back in Spain we visited a wet San Sebastian and sunny Barcelona, nearby Vic and Montserrat before leaving the Iberian Peninsula via the small Pyrenean nation of Andorra.
mercat de la boqueria - barcelona
Three weeks was barely enough time to scratch the surface. We loved every minute and vowed to return one day.
alcazar de los reyes cristianos - castle of the Christian monarchs, cordoba
In the spirit of nostalgia here are some of our favourite images from that trip.
palacio de cristal - parque del buen retiro, madrid
madrid café and cerveceria
mezquita, cordoba
inside la mezquita
alcazar de los reyes cristianos, cordoba
flamenco in cordoba
gardens of alcazar de los reyes cristianos
early morning, cordoba
cordoba
grenada cathedral
grenada
from the alhambra
morning in the alhambra
grenada
ronda
barbary macaques of gibraltar
gibraltar
tangier
dates - tangier
tangier beach
tarifa diners
seville
seville
cork tree, algave
lisbon
castelo de sao jorge
mosteiro dos jeronimos, lisbon
Padrão dos Descobrimentos (Monument of the Discoveries), lisbon
Portuguese custard tarts - yum!
church, porto
busker, porto
parque nacional da peneda geres
parque nacional da peneda geres
a wet san sebastian
isla de santa clara, san sebastian
wind farms are ubiquitous
la sagrada familia, barcelona
boqueria market, barcelona
boqueria market, barcelona
segways, barcelona
fc barca
fc barca on attack
inside la sagrada
part of the edifice of la sagrada
mountain path, montserrat
montserrat
mural, vic, catalonia
andorra la vella
the pyrenees, andorra
For more information on travelling the Iberian Peninsula here are some useful websites:
Turespana https://www.spain.info/en/
Visit Portugal https://www.visitportugal.com/en
Visit Gibraltar http://www.visitgibraltar.gi/
Visitandorra https://visitandorra.com/en/
Ken and Cally
