Lembackcom

  • Home
  • About
  • Archives
  • Contact
  • Portfolio
  • Travel List
  • Travel
  • Food
  • Photography
  • Snippets

Summer Road Trip Destination: Spain

31 July 2018 By: Marlene4 Comments

We have been back from our road trip holiday for this summer. It was a lengthy but interesting drive through different cities we hadn’t been to before. We spent our summer holiday in Málaga last year, and we liked the town a lot. We’ve been to Barcelona several times, but it was not until we visited Málaga that we decided to see more of Spain. We thought we could explore or discover unfamiliar places by taking a road trip. Spain is quite big to explore so we carefully planned which cities we should be driving through. Although it did not come out ideally as planned, we had a great and memorable holiday.

Usually, we stay one day or two in a place and take time to go around, eat in a restaurant and read about the place. This time around, we planned on staying a week in an apartment hotel to spend time resting and relaxing. A place near the beach or an enclosed area with a swimming pool would be perfect. The picture above is in Vera, where we stayed in an apartment hotel for one week. It is also a walking distance of the beach, and the area has a private swimming pool. We liked most here that we didn’t have to take the car to shop for groceries or dine in any of the restaurants in the area.

Another place where we planned to stay for a week was at the beach in Cartagena. The rocky bay in El Portus made for a perfect escape from the crowded city of Cartagena. Unfortunately, we cut short our stay here ( just three days instead of one week) because of the downhill and uphill walk to the beach and back to the apartment, respectively. We didn’t know that the restaurant close to our apartment was closed for the summer holidays and the restaurant down the hill was not the one we expected at all. It’s an open-air restaurant, and we’re both sensitive to cigarette smoke. Other than that, we felt peace staying up the hill despite the considerable crowd downhill.

Other places we visited in Spain:

  • Valencia
  • Murcia and San Pedro del Pinatar
  • Cartagena (city centre)
  • Sevilla (Seville)
  • Valladolid
  • Burgos
  • Bilbao

The hotels we stayed:

  • Best Western
  • Accor Hotels
  • HHonors
  • Melia
  • Thalasia

We spent 25 days on this road trip and the longest we’ve ever had so far, breaking our record of 18 days when we took a road trip to Italy in 2014. It could have been longer if we held on to our plan but being spontaneous makes a road trip more exciting. The hotel chains we hopped from one place to another:

About Marlene

Marlene works as a teacher, but she blogs in her spare time. She started blogging in 2007, and since then, it has become one of her hobbies. She writes for Lemback.com, which she and her husband have built and managed but later moved to Wordpress to join other WP bloggers. Connect Marlene on Twitter

Comments

  1. Willie says

    5 August 2018 at 12:14

    Wow interesting! I’ve never done any Europe tour. Most of my friends did it. And nice weather over there ya?

    Reply
    • Marlene says

      5 August 2018 at 13:19

      And I’ve never been to Malaysia and other parts of Asia. I think we just have to explore the place near us. The weather? It’s hot this summer!

      Reply

Trackbacks

  1. Volvo C70 – The Car That Served Us Well says:
    27 June 2021 at 14:38

    […] Our love for road trips led us to buy a cabriolet or a so-called convertible car. We both loved the colour and how it suited perfectly the kind of car it is. It was absolutely an eye-catcher on the road. I remember a couple of times, some people just stopped and said, “nice car you have”. We drove it for the first time to Italy, and the farthest it reached was to Spain. […]

    Reply
  2. 3 Reasons Why You Should Travel By Motorcycle says:
    6 January 2022 at 13:52

    […] Travelling the world offers multiple benefits. You’ll see beautiful sites, meet people from all backgrounds, and create long-lasting memories. That’ll be the case regardless of what way you decide to travel. However, travelling the world by motorcycle can offer a host of additional benefits. […]

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *


This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Connect with Us

  • Facebook
  • Flickr
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
  • RSS
  • Twitter

The Admins/Authors

Blogroll

  • Amor's Personal Blog
  • Davao Zone
  • Mindanao Advice
  • Mindanao Maps
Blogarama - Design Blogs

Search a post or tag

Travel Tags

airport Around Sicily Around Sweden Barcelona Berlin Catania cruise Davao Denmark Europe food travel France Germany Gothenburg Helsingborg Hotels Italy Karlskrona lifestyle Monaco Munich Museums in Sweden Norway Paris road trip roadtrip roadtrip 12-13 roadtrip2014 roadtrip2016 Sicily Singapore Spain Stockholm Sweden Switzerland Syracuse TeachersTrip teaching job Torpa-Stenhus Travel travel-tips travel-video vacation Valencia winter

Featured Photos

Pisa, Italy
Bell tower
Florence, Italy

Vinci, Italy
Verona, Italy

Gallery



What’s up?

  • Top Of Eiffel Tower

    Top Of Eiffel Tower
  • Joan of Arc – Brave and Bold

    Joan of Arc – Brave and Bold
  • The Champs-Élysées – Revisited

    The Champs-Élysées – Revisited
  • The Public at The Louvre

    The Public at The Louvre
  • Luxor Obelisk in Paris

    Luxor Obelisk in Paris

Featured Post

St. Regis Singapore

The St. Regis Hotel

More Posts from this Category

Copyright © 2007–2025 · Lemback.com · Modern Blogger Pro Theme · About