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Fátima

Series_Pilgrimage Spain

Pilgrimage in Spain Santiago de Compostela Photo impressions of our visit to Santiago de Compostela, the most important pilgrimage site in the world after Jerusalem and Rome. It is a beautiful city, with a lot of atmosphere and colour thanks to the pilgrims who have completed the difficult pilgrimage, each with their own story.

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Santiago de Compostela

Travelogue Spain and Portugal 2023 (2)

travelogue Spain and Portugal 2023 (2) Travelogue of our camper trip through Spain and Portugal that we made in August and September 2023 with a stop in Normandy in France Although the plan was to travel to the Lofoten in Norway this summer, we had to change our plans and instead we travelled to the south of Europe. We first spent a few days in Normandy in France and then we went south to Spain and Portugal. Our visits to […]

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Terrugem

Bullfighting – arenas and posters

Stories Bullfighting – arenas and posters A short introduction to our interest in bullfighting arenas and more Bull fighting is not a sport. It was never supposed to be. It is a tragedy. In recent years we regularly travelled with our buscamper through the inland of Spain and Portugal. In most villages and towns there is a bullfighting arena and we both find it fascinating to visit and photograph the local bullring in the places we visit. It is fantastic […]

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Pedraza

Travelogue – Spain and Portugal 2023

travelogue Spain and Portugal 2023 Travelogue of our camper trip through Spain and Portugal, that we made in early spring 2023. In the winter period we both suffer from the winter blues. A good remedy for this is to look for the warmth of the sun and that is what we did. At the beginning of March, we left for Southern Europe to the border area of Spain and Portugal. The weather gods were good to us and during the […]

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Campo de Criptana

Travelogue Spain 2022

travelogue Spain 2022 Travelogue of our camper trip through Spain, that we made in October 2022. In the autumn  of 2022, we travelled through Spain from the north to the south and back, mainly inlands. The route we followed went through the regions: Castilla y León, Extremadura, Andalucía and Castilla-La Mancha.  We drove about 6.500 km during this trip, of which 4.000 km in Spain Photo series  We have published all photos of this journey on SmugMug. Together with the […]

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El Cerro "Mirador de la Memoria"

Mirador de la memoria

Stories Mirador de la Memoria A tribute to all the victims of the Spanish Civil War The Silence of Others The Silence of Others, filmed over a six-year period, reveals the epic struggle of victims of Spain’s 40-year dictatorship under General Franco, as they organize a groundbreaking international trial and fight a “pact of forgetting” around the crimes they suffered. The film offers a cautionary tale about fascism and the dangers of forgetting the past. When clicking on the stills […]

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Mogarraz

Mogarraz

Stories Mogarraz A story about a small Spanish village, a photographer and a painter Portraits on the walls Mogarraz is a municipality located in the province of Salamanca, Castile and León, Spain. On our way to Béjar we saw in the village of Mogarraz, while driving by, painted portraits hanging on several houses. It caught our attention and we decided to park the camper and explore the village. To our surprise, we saw that portraits were placed on almost all […]

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Spain

Country Series Spain This is the 5th publication in our country series. Our intention is to share with you in one page our relation with the pertinent country. Our relationship with Spain Looking back, we’ve been to Spain quite many times. I don’t count the two holidays I (Adriaan) spent as an 18- 19-year-old in Benidorm and Lloret da Mar. Beach and going out, that was it. The first time we went to Spain together was in the spring of […]

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São Pedro das Cabeças

Travelogue – Spain and Portugal 2019

Travelogue Spain and Portugal 2019 A roundtrip with our buscamper that we made in the spring of 2019 in Portugal, which started in the Extremadura in Spain. 14 March 2019 – 8 April 2019. Distance: 7,145 Km Photo gallery The photo’s of this journey have been uploaded on SmugMug in the Portugal folder and they are merged with photo’s of our later and earlier travels in Portugal. The link:  Portugal .  The photo’s of Extremadura are incorporated in the series: Extremadura. […]

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Mallos de Riglos

Travelogue – Northern Spain 2018

travelogue Northern Spain 2018 Travelogue of our camper trip in Northern Spain, that we made in September 2018. In September 2018 we made a camper trip through Northern Spain and travelled through the regions Aragón, Navarra, La Rioja, Cantabria, Asturias, Galicia and Castilla y León. A very alternating journey that began in the mountains, the Pyrenees, then to the rough Atlantic coast ending in a rural desolate part of Spain. We drove 5.925 km. Photo series The photos of our trip are […]

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