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Quote: Originally posted by naturalblonde on 12/11/2014

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   Its a bit late I know, but having had a successful October in France, we rather fancy spending 3wks or so over Christmas in Spain and/or Portugal.   We spent 9 wks there in the summer and know our way around a bit, but I've got lots of questions for anyone used to overwintering there.

1) Where is the weather likely to be best?   does it rain quite a bit?

2) Anyone who reads out Blogs knows that we like to tour around and not spend too long in anyone place.

3) Will be still be able to move about, or will sites be full of long term stayers?

4) Will we need to book?

5)Any other helpful tips, or site/ Aire recommendations gratefully received!

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Having read your Spain/Portugal blog you seem to like the same sort of sites and locations we do - in fact we've been to a lot of the same places!  We've spent two winters in Spain/Portugal, but never been there over Christmas - we took a cheap flight home for a week. But this year we're going in early December and staying until March.  Like you we prefer to travel around rather than stay in one place, but decided it might be safer to book a site just for the Christmas period - it would be awful to turn up on spec and find "no room at the inn"!  However we've not booked anywhere for the trip down, or for the post-New Year period.

It's true the weather is warmer south of Valencia, but plenty of people spend the winter further north and enjoy it.  It's also possible to find pleasant sites with good-sized pitches and not a shell-suit in sight, but you have to do quite a bit of research and ignore the odd bad review - not everyone has the same tastes!  We were tempted to return to sites we'd enjoyed before, especially in the Cabo de Gata or Murcia area, but have settled for a site on the Costa de la Luz, Pinar de San Jose.  It's in a lovely area that we've been to before, and gets good reviews.  But the weather can be windy - the beaches are popular with surfers and kite-surfers.

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Quote: Originally posted by naturalblonde on 13/11/2014Thanks Crach and KarlFritz for your helpful info. I've been reading blogs and was surprised at the bright blue skies in a lot of the photos from December and January.

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Looks as though we will give it a go.

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Quote: Originally posted by KarlFritz on 13/11/2014

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Having said that my good lady and myself found Portugal nicer than Spain!
(That might set the cat among the pigeons!)

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