Iberia 2018

Introduction

This is  a diary of our three-week road trip around the Iberian peninsula in April 2018. We are leaving on Sunday, April 8, heading south-west across the border, and will spend the first night at the castle parador at Cardona in Catalonia. In fact, we will be staying several paradors on this trip, thanks to an old Lymington friend, Lorna, who represents the parador chain in Ireland. She has provided lots of good advice, and made good value bookings: April is low season, and there are good deals for "seniors".

I have scanned a map of Spain showing the paradors, but I think it is probably too small to read the names. In principle we will be going clockwise around the peninsula, stopping at Valencia, Sevilla, Lisbon and Porto, Galicia, Bilbao and many places in between. We are skipping Madrid and Barcelona, which we have visited and enjoyed in recent years.

This time we will using our iPhones for photos, which is something of an experiment, but most people seem to manage so I expect we will too.