Re: 4 days and a car in the south of Spain

Romeo Raabe schrieb:
On Nov 13, 2:44 pm, Martin Theodor Ludwig <m...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:54:42 -0800, Romeo Raabe <m...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
We are planning to spend 4 days with a rental car starting in Granada
and ending in Madrid as we have 4 days extra on a trip and wonder
about driving distances. We know that's not a lot of time, but do not
plan to spend hours in museums, just want to see the basic sights to
wet our whistles for future trips, wife has not been to Spain. My
question is driving times ...
Most major highways are in very good and straight shape with little
traffic (some more crowded exceptions I remember were the near-coastal
roads in the East and South). Normally you can ride at (or over ;-) the
speed limit what is 90 (sometimes 100) km/h on single carriageways and
120 km/h on freeways (I'm not sure about the fines - until ~2 years ago
you could do 50% over the posted limit with risking 93 EUR at maximum,
but ARAIR nowadays it's more strictly enforced).

Be sure to have a recent(!) map - during the last years (since Spain is
in an EU member ;-) lots of new highways and freeways have been built,
and the numbering scheme changes every now and then (it happens e.g.
near Reus that you look in vain for the "old" highway N-340 to finally
find out that A-7 is what you are looking for, whereas what is labeled
A-7 in last year's map actually figures as AP-7 on the signs ...) Some
freeways (normally those with AP labels for Autopista) are toll roads
(except at some city bypasses) whereas other freeways are free (those
with A labels for Autovía. The IME best maps are from Michelin: they
exist in the 1:1 million scale (one *** for entire Spain and Portugal)
and in 1:400.000 (as several regional sheets or as all-Iberic atlas) and
make the (non-)payable toll visible by different colours of distances.

HTH,
Martin

(some pics atwww.mtl-9.de/2005esandwww.mtl-9.de/2005es2- for French
usewww.mtl-9.de/2005es/index-f.htmandwww.mtl-9.de/2005es2/index-f.htm
or www.mtl-9.de/2005es/index-s.htmandwww.mtl-9.de/2005es2/index-s.htm
for Spanish)

I've got a map coming from AAA, and I have a Spain card for my Garmin
C330, so am hoping those are sufficient. I realize traveling down to
Malaga between Granada and Seville will slow me down somewhat, but
wonder if its still an entire day, or can it be done reasonably in 4-5
hours driving? Then from Seville to Cordoba, how long a drive, and
lastly, up to Toledo, about how long from Cordoba?
thanks


Skip Malaga, it's not worth it with such a tight schedule.
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