Ready to board
16 de junho de 2018, África do Sul ⋅ 🌙 9 °C
Heathrow to Barcelona
17 de junho de 2018, Inglaterra ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C
Luckily we are only passing through London...It's raining 😊
Heading to 1st stop Spain ... 🇪🇸
Sandwich wrappers in Spain
17 de junho de 2018, Espanha ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C
Had a giggle reading my sandwich wrapper ..... 😂😂
Self-Toll gates
17 de junho de 2018, Espanha ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C
Take a ticket, drive until you get to where ypu want to leave the highway, and pay the machine 😁
Valencia
18 de junho de 2018, Espanha ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
Pretty old buildings complete with Orange trees on the pavements 😊
Ladies of the plastic chairs?
18 de junho de 2018, Espanha ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
Driving through the middle of nowhere, we came across ladies sitting at the side of the road.
Apparently everybody knows about the places along the highway on Spain’s Mediterranean coast where theLeia mais
Spanish Olive trees
18 de junho de 2018, Espanha ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
Near the small town of Ulldecona, is a unique piece of natural heritage: a 1,700-year old tree which might be the oldest, scientifically dated, olive tree anywhere in the world.
Researchers at theLeia mais
Spain's Greenhouses
19 de junho de 2018, Espanha ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
Since the 1980s, Almería in southern Spain has developed the largest concentration of greenhouses in the world, covering 26,000 hectares. The greenhouses reflect so much sunlight back into theLeia mais
Hollywood in Spain
19 de junho de 2018, Espanha ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
The only real desert in Europe of approximately 280 square kilometers, is a protected natural park and has attracted film crews since the 1950s. It hardly ever rains (less than 240 mm annual rainfall)Leia mais
Roquetas de Mar
20 de junho de 2018, Espanha ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
Pretty seaside town in Almeria Spain. Stayed at Hotel Don Angel.
Sierra Nevada mountains
20 de junho de 2018, Espanha ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
Finally some scenery without greenhouses 😁
Winter snow still lying in the crevices in the high peaks!
Castillo de La Calahorra
20 de junho de 2018, Espanha ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
Castillo de La Calahorra is located in La Calahorra, in the province of Granada, Spain. It is situated in the Sierra Nevada foothills. Built between 1509 and 1512, it is one of the first ItalianLeia mais
Gibraltar
20 de junho de 2018, Gibraltar ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
Gibraltar is a headland on Spain's south coast, belonging to Britain. It’s dominated by the Rock of Gibraltar, a 426m-high limestone ridge.
First settled by the Moors in the Middle Ages and laterLeia mais
Toro de Osborne
21 de junho de 2018, Espanha ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C
The Osborne Sherry company (founded by Thomas Osborne Mann in 1772) erected large images of bulls starting in the 1950's to advertise it's Brandy de Jerez. The original image contained the name ofLeia mais
Spanish Sunflowers
21 de junho de 2018, Espanha ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
The late spring and early summer seem to be the time for sunflowers in the south of Spain. In the middle of nowhere, outside Seville, there are field upon field of sunflowers (or girasoles inLeia mais
Solar collectors - PS10 and PS20
21 de junho de 2018, Espanha ⋅ ⛅ 29 °C
The solar collector towers, named PS10 and PS20, began operating in 2007 and 2009. Each is surrounded by a field of angled mirrors known as heliostats, which reflect solar radiation onto a receiverLeia mais
Faro - Portugal
21 de junho de 2018, Portugal ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C
After 4 days in Spain, we crossed into Portugal.
I wish I learnt to speak Portuguese from my Portuguese school friends 🤪
Spending our 1st night in a seaside town called Faro. Not too small as itLeia mais
Shazzij Travel LogAgree 🤪 We even had people fighting outside the hotel at 4 in the morning
Nossa Senhora de Guadalupe Chapel
22 de junho de 2018, Portugal ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
The Nossa Senhora de Guadalupe Chapel is situated in between the small villages of Budens and Raposeira, in the lovely department of Vila do Bispo, on the western side of the Algarve region.
ThisLeia mais
Fortaleza de Sagres
22 de junho de 2018, Portugal ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
The Fortaleza Sagres is located at the southern tip of the Sagres Peninsular and this uniquely designed fort protected the town from raiders from North Africa.
This is where Henry the NavigatorLeia mais
Portugal Day 2
22 de junho de 2018, Portugal ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
Much of the drive though the Algarve was through huge citrus orchards. This is because the Algarve produces up to 70% of all citrus harvested in Portugal. Between 300,000 and 400,000 tonnes of theLeia mais
Almada to Lisbon
23 de junho de 2018, Portugal ⋅ ⛅ 25 °C
The toll gates at the bridge crossing the .... from Almada to Lisbon.
The statue of Christ the King is a Catholic monument and shrine dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ overlooking theLeia mais
Mosteiro dos Jeronimos
23 de junho de 2018, Portugal ⋅ ⛅ 25 °C
The Mosteiro dos Jeronimos is a highly ornate monastery that is situated in the Belem district of western Lisbon. This grand religious building was historically associated with the early sailors asLeia mais
Torre de Belém
23 de junho de 2018, Portugal ⋅ ⛅ 25 °C
Belém Tower also known as the Tower of St Vincent is a fortified tower located in Santa Maria de Belém. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site because of the significant role it played in theLeia mais
Wild fires in 2017
23 de junho de 2018, Portugal ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
Portugal's fires have burnt 520,000 hectares of forest during 2017, 52 times the size of Lisbon and representing nearly 60 percent of the total area burnt in the entire European Union in 2017.
Portugal Day 3
23 de junho de 2018, Portugal ⋅ 🌙 19 °C
A beautiful country with friendly people and quaint rural villages and countryside.
The scenery varied from vineyards and citrus plantations to large farms and little villages, interspersed with theLeia mais