Southern Spain/Portugal.

[Andyvon]

My wife and I are touring southern Spain and Portugal for three weeks in November. We are also staying in Gibraltar for a few days. We are visiting Granada, Seville, Cordoba etc but wondered if there are any places others have been and would specifically recommend. We have a hire car, plenty of time to potter, and we like history, culture and long, quiet walks.

[buildersmate]

Try Ronda hill-top town in Andalucia.
http://www.andalucia.com/ronda/home.html

[buildersmate]

The link within the website doesn't seem to work, but you could get at it from the Home page.

[nickmo]

Seconded for Ronda - and do go into the gorge as well as the bull ring and town - pastries there are worth the extra few calories.... plus have a go at Tarifa, and Casares - hill town, and one of the most pretty pueblo blancos. Also, Montefr�o has stunning scenery and location - west of Granada.

Caves at Guadix, and one of the most well know of Andalucias castles at La Calahorra is worth a viewing.

Sierra de Carde�a y Montoro Natural Park in the Cordoba region is home to loads of wildlife including lynx, so if you want a walk about - weather dependent - make for this region - not often on the tourist trail, but worth it all the same.

andalucia.com is a good site for info on the region....have a trawl through and see what else takes the fancy. Have a nice time..! and be amazed at what people in Gibralter eat compared to Spain...........i.e .egg, chips and beans....but at least tax free shopping is a plus, and the people are really nice too. The monkies on the Rock aren't though - don't feed the little blighters if you can help it.

[filthiestfis]

You can take the ferry from the port of Algeciras, near Gibraltar, and do a day trip to Morocco i.e. Tangier, Tetuan ...its about 2.5-3 hours to get there by ferry but not expensive.

[filthiestfis]

nickmo-in Gib a diverse array of gastronomic cuisine is available, including Chinese, Italian, Indian, Spanish, Maltese, Portuguese.....we dont just eat egg, chips and beans! Quite frankly we like a bit of everything but deep down prefer Spanish food.

[mrsann]

Go inland alll the previous advice is sound.I lived in Southern Andalucia for over 18 years and love the hill towns.The advice to visit the Extremadura (Caseres) is sound if you get that far try to visit Merida as well It's the best preserved Roman town outside Italy and overall one of the best anywhere.The people of the Extremadura are fab too.Alternatively visit Las Alpujarras the hill region a bit further East than the Sierra Nevadas.If you want to get the feel of the area read Chris Stewart's books Driving over Lemons A Parrot in the Pepper tree and he has a new one out too.He's an amazing guy used to be drummer with Genesis and now lives and farms in rural Andalucia.He brings the area to life

[Jane Hunt]

Excellent ideas for you on:

http://www.spanish-property-today.com
http://www.spanish-property-for-sale.tv

great regional information.

[Andyvon]

Thank you very much everyone. We were planning to visit Ronda but the other destinations are not really covered in the guide books we have and we will make a point of trying to visit those.

Thank you all again.