Huelva
30 september 2022, Spanje ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C
Trigueros to Valverde del Camino
1 oktober 2022, Spanje ⋅ 🌙 13 °C
Valverde del Camino to Minas de Riotinto
2 oktober 2022, Spanje ⋅ 🌙 17 °C
Minas de Riotinto to Aracena
3 oktober 2022, Spanje ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
Reiziger
It looks like a cinder cone, but there aren't any volcanoes in your neck of the woods. So what _is_ this?
Alan SykesOnce the largest opencast mine in the world, where the Río Tinto company set up shop and destroyed a landscape.
Aracena to Cañaveral de León
4 oktober 2022, Spanje ⋅ 🌙 16 °C
Cañaveral de León to Fuentes de León
5 oktober 2022, Spanje ⋅ 🌙 16 °C
Fuentes de León to Valencia del Ventoso
6 oktober 2022, Spanje ⋅ 🌙 15 °C
Valencia del Ventoso to Zafra
7 oktober 2022, Spanje ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
ReizigerSantiago Matamoros in all his glory still seems to be a popular theme - I cynically wonder if that's not one way to make a political statement without much risk of censure.
Laurie ReynoldsHe’s gone from the cathedral. Last time I was there they had the base surrounded by flowers so that the moros being killed were not visible. But now the statue is gone.
Alan Sykesthey removed it in 1939 at Franco's request when his Moroccan general Mohamed Meziane was due to lead a victory parade in Santiago.
Zafra to Villafranco de los Barros
8 oktober 2022, Spanje ⋅ 🌙 16 °C
Villafranca de los Barros - Almendralejo
9 oktober 2022, Spanje ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
Almendralejo to Mérida
10 oktober 2022, Spanje ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C
Mérida to Aljucén
12 oktober 2022, Spanje ⋅ 🌙 13 °C
Laurie Reynolds
I’m sure you already know this, but I only learned after three visits that the museum is designed to mimic the shape of the aqueduct. It’s so obvious but I never realized it! Are you going to Santa Lucía soon? I followed your tracks there once. Not to be missed!
Aljucén to Aldea del Cano
12 oktober 2022, Spanje ⋅ 🌙 13 °C
Aldea del Cano to Cáceres
14 oktober 2022, Spanje ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
Cáceres onto the vía de la Estrella
16 oktober 2022, Spanje ⋅ ☁️ 24 °C
Arroyo de la Luz to Brozas
17 oktober 2022, Spanje ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C
Brozas to Alcántara
18 oktober 2022, Spanje ⋅ 🌙 13 °C
Alcántara into Portugal
19 oktober 2022, Spanje ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C
Idanha a Nova on
20 oktober 2022, Portugal ⋅ 🌧 14 °C
Orca to Ferro
21 oktober 2022, Portugal ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
Ferro to Belmonte
22 oktober 2022, Portugal ⋅ 🌧 13 °C
Belmonte to Guarda
24 oktober 2022, Portugal ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C
Guarda to Celorico da Beira
25 oktober 2022, Portugal ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
Laurie ReynoldsThese are two towns we’ve never visited in Portugal. Do you recommend them both equally? Or do you have a favorite?
Alan SykesGuarda is much bigger and generally more impressive, especially if, unlike me, you get to see it when it's not completely shrouded in thick wet cloud. Celorico da Beira was a lively, friendly place, but I was possibly biased in its favour because of seeing it in the first sunlight I'd seen in Portugal.
Celorico da Beira to Trancoso
26 oktober 2022, Portugal ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C
To Lamego
27 oktober 2022, Portugal ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C
ReizigerAn Aztec calendar in Huesca is just mildly ironic, given the gifts of Spain to the Aztecs.
Alan Sykesthere's some fairly breathtaking cultural insensitivity all round the launch sites. PS Huelva - Huesca is on the French border. La magia.