Spain and Portugal Instagram Roundup
Well. It's been a while, hasn't it? As I type this it's been about 24 hours since I returned to the U.S., I'm drinking some tea, and my cat--whom I haven't seen in three weeks--is cuddled behind me on the couch. Home sweet home! Yes, the hubs and I just got back from three weeks of travelling around Portugal and Spain. There were some days we broke 9 miles of walking and we have the sandal tan lines to show for it! (And maybe some toned leg muscles, too?)
I also decided to change my blog name (again!). I obviously posted these photos on my Instagram when my handle was still @corkingaround, but you can now follow me there at @travellinglore; the same goes for Twitter. This also means I had to re-"claim" my blog on bloglovin, so feel free to re-follow me there, too.
I'm still backlogged on recounting my travels from July 2016 to present, but here's a teaser of some of the amazing things we saw while driving around the Iberian peninsula.
A bird's eye view of downtown Lisbon, Portugal. This view reminded me a lot of Croatia given the maze of houses with orange tiled roof tops.
From Lisbon we took a day trip to Sintra where the Quinta da Regaleira was one of many things we visited that day.
On our third day in Lisbon, we again ventured outside of downtown to a town called Belém. There we visited the Monastery of Jeronimos, which was constructed by King Manuel to thank the Portuguese explorers for their discoveries.
We also traveled to one of Portugal's many wine regions, the Douro Valley. This photo was taken from a viewpoint called São Leonardo and only just starts to show the beautiful terraced vineyards of the valley.
Next up in our Iberian Peninsula circuit was Spain's hill towns. We stopped in Mérida to take in some Roman ruins. Pictured here is an amphitheater that was built around 8 B.C. and was excavated and restored during the past 100 years.
Grazalema, Spain was another hill town stop in our circuit. These iconic towns usually have their buildings painted white.
In order to end in Barcelona, we had to make our way back to Lisbon to catch our flight. To break up the drive we stopped to see some megalithic structures. Before this trip I had no idea that these structures were present in the Iberian Peninsula. This one dates back to around 5,500 B.C. and is older than Stonehenge.
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