20 photos
I left Sagres after completing the nature walk at the fort. My room that night was in Seville, Spain, so I had a long drive ahead. But I took a slight detour to visit Tavira, one of the easternmost Portuguese towns in the Algarve.
I spent three weeks traveling about the Iberian peninsula in September 2019.
These photographs and short videos are essentially in chronological order.
I arrived on the morning of September 6, and checked into a hotel near the airport to recover from my overnight flight.
The next morning I began my journey, driving to Segovia, about an hour northwest of Madrid.
These photographs and short videos are essentially in chronological order.
I arrived on the morning of September 6, and checked into a hotel near the airport to recover from my overnight flight.
The next morning I began my journey, driving to Segovia, about an hour northwest of Madrid.
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Seville Spain, September 13, 2019
342 photos
I arrived at my B&B just in time for a gorgeous sunset. The B&B was in the far outskirts of Seville, but close to a rail stop. Seville is mostly known as the home of Flamenco and bullfighting, but has more to see.
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Gibraltar, La Linea Spain, September 14 - 15, 2019
309 photos
I arrived in La Linea (full name is La Línea de la Concepción - translates roughly as "The Border"), where I had a hotel reservation, early in the afternoon of September 14th.
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Driving from Gibraltar to Grenada, September 16, 2019
16 photos
Leaving early on September 16, I took the coastal route at the start of my drive to Grenada.
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Granada, La Alhambra, September 16 - 18 2019
382 photos
Of course, the reason one visits Granada is to see La Alhambra, the marvelous mostly Islamic palace that overlooks the center of town.
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Cordoba Spain, September 18 - 19, 2019
290 photos
I arrived in Cordoba in the late afternoon of September 17. My hotel was in the old Jewish Quarter of the town, within easy walking distance of the Cordoba Mosque/Cathedral and other attractions.
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The suburbs of Valencia Spain, September 20, 2019
3 photos
I left Cordoba shortly after noon on the 19th for the long drive to the outskirts of Valencia, where I would spend the night. The "Hotel Iris" near L'Eliana was in fact a rather funky motel, reminiscent of what one would find in rural areas of the United States in the 1950's.
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Barcelona Spain, September 20 - 23, 2019
581 photos
I left the motel near Valencia in midmorning and arrived at my hotel in Molins Del Rei, a suburb of Barcelona, in early afternoon. In another serendipitous bit of scheduling, I had arrived on the first day of Barcelona's major annual festival, La Merce.