My girlfriend and I are going to spend a month in Spain and Portugal Sept 27- Oct 24 2015. She needs to work on the internet two time periods, each period being Mon - Friday from 3pm-11pm and she needs a good internet connection.
We have never been to either country and wanted some advice on our plan. By the way she is 54 and I am 65 but we are very young for our age.
here are our questions
Are we spending too much time in Portugal? too much time in Lisbon? should we cut down Lisbon to see more of northern Spain? are we spending too little time in Barcelona. We are going for a month and it seems too short.
So here is our tentative plan.
Sept 26 fly LA - Lisbon
Sept 27 arrive and spent one night in Lisbon
Sept 28 - Oct 2nd, rent a car and go to a Farmhouse in Redondo Portugal with another couple , friends of of ours from LA who are into wineries. They found this charming Farmhouse on a Cork farm.We will spend 4 nights there.
Oct 2 - Oct 5 Leave Cork Farm Friday and Drive to southern Coast of Portugal and ver the following 3 days explore the souther coast making our way back up to Lisbon.
Oct 5 - 9 Rent a house or apartment ( airbnb ) in Lisbon and this will be one of the weeks she will work from 3pm - 11pm. I will explore while she works and in the mornings we can make trips outside the city.
Oct 10 - 12 Fly to Bacelona. Spend 2-3 days
Oct 12 or 13 ( not sure, need help here because we don't want to be in too touristy areas) Here is where we have options. Get to Seville ( train? Fly?) spend the next week going to Seville, Arcos, Rondo, Nerja, Granada and making our way to Madrid on Oct 19th
Oct 19th rent an apartment in Madrid and this is another week where she works 5 days 3pm - 11pm. Oct 24 Madrid back home to LA