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Portugal’s Alentejo to Mertola
From Megalithic stone circles that make Stonehenge look like babies they’re so old to hilltop white villages and deserted mines – the interior of Portugal’s Alentejo is a treasure trove.
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Évora – City of Bones and Books
A town of peacock cries, chapel of bones and bookshops with bubble-gum machines that spit out poems – Evora is not to be missed.
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Over the border from Spain’s Badajoz to Portugal’s Guadiana River
White cubic houses, wild flower meadows, ancient treasures and wonderful walking trails – the Alentejo has it all.
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Mérida – Spain’s best kept secret
Spain’s Merida is a well-kept secret to many travellers. It is a jewel of a town with an ancient history, small enough to walk around.
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Tracing the Guadiana from the Cabaneros Mountains to Embalse García Sola
From a pastoral idyll to the haunting reservoir, Garcia Sola, we chase the Guadiana River in Spain…
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Cabaneros Natural Park – Ciudad Real Province
Storks, bats, wolves, eagles, wild Mediterranean Maquis – The Cabaneros have it all.
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The Somport Tunnel to Zaragoza
The biggest Good Friday Procession in Spain and a city full of the charm of the ancient and the modern.
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A Sprint through France to Spain
Driving through France to Spain – detours along the way. Who can resist France in spring?
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Rambling on Wexford’s Baginbun Head
Spindrift bowls across the sea in all directions as our ferry pulls into Rosslare – at last. Delayed from leaving Fishguard, we then suffered a gut lurching four hours where the captain had to go north into the Irish Sea for safety reasons rather than diagonally across to Rosslare. More than ever, I can see…
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