Wednesday it’s April 2025.
Today was designed to be a day of driving and oh boy it didn’t disappoint. The sat nav tried to take us on a newly built dual carriageway but we managed to find the original country road and stayed on it for the whole 86 miles. As my friend Arthur would say it’s not a drive out if you don’t find a few peaks, narrow roads and hairpin bends and today he would have been a happy man.
The road had virtually no traffic on it or villages along the way, although we did drive through two small towns, we stopped at one, Mogadouro and went for a walk around the town. There wasn’t a great deal there but we walked up hill to the old ruined castle from where there were good views.
The scenery was magnificent, we drove through regions with the almond trees in blossom, there were olive groves, small areas of vines, terraced hill sides with fruit trees. Other areas were scrubland but covered in Broom plants covered in white flowers, there were poppies, large bushes of white flowers and other wild flowers that I didn’t recognise.
We weren’t far at any time from the Spanish border and our route was mainly along the River Douro, often dropping hundreds of feet down to it and then climbing up again to gain height. The photos we took couldn’t do the scenery justice and at times the skill to take a panoramic view would have been helpful.
taraabit 