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Hi all

We've just got back from another camping road trip in the 1996 110 CSW 300TDi. Covered ~2,500miles without a hitch apart from annoying rattly front pads - more of that in a separate question thread.

Spent about 10 nights in the back of the Landy on our (sleeping platform) and the rest in our ground tent and used the ferry from Portsmouth / Bilbao and return. It's not cheap but saves a big drive through France and is very relaxing.

I can recommend the northern part of Spain and Portugal - the bit at the extreme west of Spain (Asturias and Galicia) has dozens of beautiful, both wild and sheltered beaches and it's very quiet (in June anyway). The drive along the northern coast back to Bilbao is magnificent and includes the Picos de Europe.

Afraid no major off-roading to talk about - just one excursion to find the set of the burial ground in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly which was about 4km on gravel up and over a hill. We gave a couple from the UK a lift to find it (they were each standing on a side step) as the gravel was too dodgy for their road bike.

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If you decide to come back, I strongly recommend you to visit Lugo during the "Arde Lucus" ("Burn Lucus"). Four days to remember our kelt and roman origins. Book acomodation some months earlier! Lugo takes it name from the roman god Lugh.

Nice place to visit is also the Ancares mountains, natural border between Galicia and León. Las Medulas, ancient roman gold mines, also a good place to visit in the Bierzo region in province of León.

www.ardelucus.org

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Thank you for the advice, they look like great places.

We really rushed the part of the trip back along the north coast. It was a "clockwise" trip from Bilbao and most of our time was spent in mid central Spain (Segovia etc), across through Extramadura to mid Portugal and then north and north west to Atlantic Galicia via the Serra da Peneda.

"Next time".

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We looked at taking the caravan but the cost of the ferry / fuel through France + campsite made us get take a package holiday. Good to hear it's a nice place though, maybe I'd be able to make it pay by stopping in France for a couple of days on the way :)

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