Awe-mazing Road Trip to Portugal

Brent and the kids had Thursday and Friday off and we had a car rental for the weekend so we really wanted to take advantage of the situation.  The forecast for most of Spain was rain except in Valencia (the beach) where it was to be in the 70s.  Unfortunately we couldn't find any available hotels in Valencia so we started looking the other direction and couldn't fine anything from one city to the next until we got as far out as Portugal and ultimately found some rooms in Guarda, Portugal.  By this time it was 1am, and the kids were in bed thinking we were going to Valencia in the morning.

 We set out the next day with a few cities in mind to stop at on the way there or back depending on the rain as we were approaching.   To keep this post from being too long I thought I would do a post for each stop.  Warning: there will be several.

This post is just to show some things we saw along the way from the roadside.

This is bull country and luckily for the kids we found some rather friendly ones.  There were several of these colorful bulls along this stretch of the Highway. 

This abandoned castle was out in the middle of some farmer's field.  We wish we could have found an exit to it.

Here is another view of this same castle.  We saw many other ruins along the drive, although none were quite this large.

Not a great picture as we were going 120 km on a busy highway when I stuck my camera out the window and snapped this.  This is just on the side of the road right in the middle of a large town.

At least with all the rain we saw many 
beautiful rainbows along the way!