Category: Spain and Portugal Winter 2019-20

Porto

We went to Porto for the day with my cousin Isabel and had coffee, lunch and tea, interspersed with a bit of business with a lawyer.

Cafe Majestic
Cafe Majestic

Cafe Majestic is a very famous cafe in Porto with a wonderful interior – definitely to be visited if you go to the city.

We also tried to visit Libraria Lello (a famous bookshop) which was the inspiration behind part of the interior scenes of Hogwarts in Harry Potter, but the queues went down the road and you actually have to book on line. Here’s a link to some photos

Lunch in a delightful restaurant down a little side street


Wandering around the streets we came across a few more sights. A shop named Coutinho so of course we had to have a photo of Isabel and myself outside, an amazingly old cash register which still worked, and a church covered in beautiful tiles.

  • Two Coutinho cousins
  • Porto street
  • Very old cash register
  • Tiled church in Porto

Travelling down to Spain

This year we set off on 20 December, and got down to the Ribamar campsite at Alcossebra on Christmas Eve. We crossed the channel on Eurotunnel (so easy) and took the route recommended by Susy – Rouen, Chatres, Orleans, Clemont-Ferrand .., and then follow your nose to Spain. It was a very pretty route.

We stayed the first night at an Aire in Montreuil sud Mer, about one hour from Calais where we’d stayed before. The second night at a camperstop in Bruère-Allichamps – very pleasant by a river (once you’d worked out how to get in), and the third night at a Camperstop in the car park of a restaurant Chez-Nous in Fitou. Lots of vignerons around there so of course we had to contribute to the local economy. Both of these stops were found through the CamperContact App.