I have created this part of my web site so that I can share some of the wonderful places that I have visited in Portugal, Spain and France. Other people may enjoy holidays on a beach, skiing or visiting far flung places. I have found fascinating places to visit on my motorbike all within a day or two’s ride of where I live in the Algarve.

I am fascinated by our history and in particular where it relates to places and people during the period from the Roman Empire to the end of the 18th century. I do not have a good memory so visiting places of historical interest, taking photographs, reading books and writing a little that I have learnt on this website will I hope help me remember something of what I have seen and read about.

Also it is nice to share what I have seen and learnt with anyone who might be interested without becoming a boor! You don’t have to click on the following articles – but if you do you may read something of interest, there are photographs with each article.

1. Sintra - 15 km west of Lisbon & 10 km north of Cascais - Portugal

2. Tomar - 100 km north east of Lisbon - Portugal

3. Morella - 200 km south west of Barcelona & 50 km west of Amposta - NE Spain

4. Bragança - Close to the Spanish border in the north east - Portugal

5. Alcobaça - 90 km north of Lisbon & 10 km south east of Nazaré - Portugal

6. Mosteiro da Batalha - 110 km north of Lisbon & 20 km NE of Nazaré - Portugal

7. Guimarães - 40 km north east of Porto - Portugal

8. Narbonne - 50 km north of Perpignon on the Mediterranean coast - SW France

9. Carcassonne - 50 km West of Narbonne & 90 km SE of Toulouse - SW France

10. Montségur - 50 km south west of Carcassonne - SW France

11. Paderne Castle - 4 km north of Albufeira - Algarve - Portugal

12. Óbidos - 60 km north of Lisbon & 20 km east of Peniche - Portugal

13. Mina de São Domingos - 50 km north of Vila Real de Santo Antonio - SE Portugal

14. Monsaraz - 140 km north of Vila Real Santo Antonio & 50 km east of Evora - Portugal

15. 3 days camping between the Algarve & Penamacor - the southern half of Portugal & close to the Spanish border

16. Rio Tinto - (King Soloman's Mines) - 50 km north east of Huelva - SW Spain

17. Coimbra - 208 km north of Lisbon and east of Figueira da Foz - Central Portugal

18. The Golegã Horse Fair - 133 km north east of Lisbon - Central Portugal

19. Chocolate, a Windmill & a Pilgrimage - A motorway ride up to Óbidos (2 hours drive north of Lisbon) and back down via the west coast - Portugal

20. The Romans in Spain & Portugal - A brief history of the Mediterranean from around 1500 BC to the Roman occupation of Spain in 205 BC - Followed by an article on Italica a Roman city in Spain near Seville.

21. Conimbriga a Roman city near Coimbra in Portugal.

22. Segovia and its wonderful Aqueduct (70 kilometres north of Madrid).

23. Cerro da Vila - A Roman Vila at Vilamoura in the Algarve, Portugal.

24. Merida - A Roman city 70 kilometres east of Badojos in Spain.

25. Miróbriga - A Roman town near Santiago do Cacem in south west Portugal a little north east of Sines.

26. Milreu - A Roman villa and Temple near Estoi just a few kilometres north east of Faro and just a little south of the A22 motorway.

27. Abicada - A Roman villa near Alvor (just to the west of Portimão) in the Algarve, Portugal.

28. Baelo Claudia - A Roman town and port at Bolonia 18 kilometres north west of Tarifa in southern Spain.

29. Córdoba - A city made famous by the Mosque built by the Moors there in the 10th century AD. 150 kilometres NE of Seville.

30. The Alhambra at Granada - The last of the Moors strongholds in Spain 160 kilometres south of Córdoba.