Boondock Puffins

If you’re after a dose of Spanish countryside with a side of historical grandeur and just a hint of insect warfare, then Castile and León may well be your spiritual home. It’s the kind of place where Romanesque churches peek over golden hills and the quiet is only broken by the gentle whine of your Read more

Porto, as it turns out, is rather proud of its bridges. And rightly so. Chief among them is the Dom Luís I bridge – a hulking double-decker affair designed not by Eiffel himself, but by his overachieving apprentice Théophile Seyrig. Think of it as the Eiffel Tower that decided it wanted a more practical career Read more

Today was Porto day – home of port wine, a thousand bridges, and apparently the place that inspired Harry Potter (because of course it did; everything these days has a Potter link, doesn’t it?). Anyway, we were off to the City of Bridges, though our day began, somewhat optimistically, with a run along the Camino Read more

First impressions of Portugal? A bit… meh. Nothing to write home about. The air smelled vaguely like a tourist brochure, and the roads were just roads. Nothing alarming, just… nothing. You know when you land in a country and think, This’ll be fine, but I’m not holding my breath? Yep, that was Portugal in the Read more

You always imagine camping in northern Spain will be all sun-drenched cliffs and azure skies, don’t you? The sort of place where your tent flap opens onto a Mediterranean postcard, and you eat olives straight from the jar while wearing sunglasses at 9am. Well. Not quite. We rolled into Camping Rinlo Costa, just outside Ribadeo, Read more