@@pedrofmc0000 In Galicia you have also too many wind at the beaches. So, that's fine. Oh, and the weather this year in the Algarve is fantastic, with a sea surface temperature at 22-24°C.
Wonderfull route trough my grandparents' homeland. The dead trees are result of the 2017 forest fire season (that was a long period of dry, and the eucaliptus and pine trees, that are foreign species help to spread the fire. The same happened in Portugal, California and Australia. Fortunately, 2018 and 2019 have been very rainy and humid years and there weren't any fires.
Glad to hear it! I was a bit worried as we have a "plague" of 'Bark Beetles" killing trees in the Western US. I'd hate to hear that other countries like in Europe had the same sort of plague! A fire like that is bad enough (not downplaying the severity of what happened).
Really enjoyed the choice of music... and the scenery in that area is awesome! (I didn't learn until relatively later in life that Spain wasn't all hot and rather flat with only a few mountains. Stereotypes struck again!)
Spanish stereotypes are based in Castillian and Andalusian stereotypes, the dominant cultures in the Iberian Peninsula. Galician culture isn't hispanic at all!!! And the climate is very different from the one of Castille.
@@diogorodrigues747 spanish steoreotypes comes from advertisments of Spain in summer, and millions of tourists visiting the most Hot summer áreas of Spain. If millions of tourists would visit Castilla and some areas of Andalucía in winter they would change their mind.
@@diogorodrigues747 Galicia is part and parcel of hispánic world. So much that in some south américan countries, spaniards are known as gallegos, whether they come from Galicia or other regions of Spain. Galicia gastronomy is very apreciated all along Spain, with thousands of restaurantes and specialitied available in supermarkets and food shops. Main clothes company is galician. And some Galicia phrases and songs are used and famous all along Spain.
@@Trurl2010 I don't know if you are Spanish or not, but I think you're wrong. Galicia, por most sociologists, is not hispanic. Being in Spain doesn't mean that the culture is hispanic (in fact, Galician people usually get along very well with Portuguese, but they think somewhat strange the culture of Castille). No, spaniards are not know as "gallegos", my friend. Spaniards are known with various names, the most common is "castillian", because the Kingdom of Spain emerged from the ancient Kingdom of Castille. I know that. Galician cuisine is much better than Andalucian cuisine. However, that doesn't mean they are totally hispanic: in fact, lots of Galician dishes have a lot in common with Portuguese dishes (probably because Portugal, and mainly in Southern Portugal, had thousands of "migrants" from Galicia after the Reconquista, and Northern Portugal was already in the same kingdom as Galicia before, so...).
It would be nice to have a complete video database of all European highways and major scenic roads, Google Street View is a great way to explore streets and neighborhoods but it's too slow to explore long travel distances!
This freeway was in a very bad shape a few years ago, but it was fixed and now it's a very good freeway. Unfortunatelly, Galician typical forest is almost gone. It was replaced by eucalyptus and pine forests (the same in Northern and Central Portugal). This forests are very inflamable - Galicia and Northern/Central Portugal are the major hotspots for wildfires in the Iberian Peninsula because of that. Probably the pines at 05:11 are the remains of the big 2017 wildifire season, the worst ever in Northwest Iberia. A curiosity: Ribadavia (07:00) was one of the most important villages in the II World War refugee market. Trains arrived in the village, full of French refugees, and then a group of sisters (the Touxa sisters) took them through the Gerês mountains into Portugal and the port of Leixões, to carry them into America, safe from the Nazis. This was a riscky and secret job: in fact, most of this reality was only discovered a few years ago. Most of this story was full of miths and legends, but now we know that it was a true story from an horrendous time.
Most of the pines in Galicia are autochtonous. It's known as "Pinus Pinaster Ait, ssp atlántica" or known is Spain as "Galician Pine". The cultivation of eucalyptus has been restricted by law since 2012 to very well defined areas due to the damage it causes in the soil by drying it in excess due to the amount of water it needs. www.madeirasestanqueiro.com/caracteristicas-del-pino-gallego.html
@@pedrofmc0000 That's not true. The Eucalyptus area has been growing and growing since 2012. In fact, lots of places have been cleaned for planting eucalyptus. If there is a rule, the Galician government is not aplying it. And no, most of the pines are not autoctonous, they are rock pines ("piñeiros bravos" as they are called in Galician) and they're autoctonous from Northern Europe and introduced in Galicia in the Middle Ages.
@@diogorodrigues747 I've just seen this comment which I hadn't seen before. Before telling me I'm lying, you could at least try to find some information on the internet. As it seems, you have a satellite in your head and so you know better than me, a Galician, what trees grow in my own autonomous community. You can't even imagine how many demonstrations there have been in Galicia since 2012 regarding the forbiddance to limit the Eucalyptus growth. And BTW! I lived in Sweden for a long time and if you had seen the local pines you'd be really surprised. Since the century XVI and later lot timber of nordic pines were imported through Flanders because they were the best and highest for ship masts thanks to their height. es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinus_pinaster Page 54: armada.defensa.gob.es/archivo/mardigitalrevistas/cuadernosihcn/33cuaderno/cuaderno33.pdf Page 124: www.iaph.es/revistaph/index.php/revistaph/article/view/4279/5714 You are a pedant. Have a good day
@@pedrofmc0000 I know Galicia very well, and yes, eucalyptus area has been growing since 2012. I'm not saying that there isn't any rules, I'm saying that, if there are some rules, the regional government is not acting at all.
Every, every, each portion of terrain from here to Straight of Gibraltar was reconquered for us from the moors in the past. How is fucking possible at 2020 we still have another country colonissing our territory? thanks for the video and for share my beatifull country.
Hola. Cuantas horas toma desde Vigo a Ourense?. Vivo en Vigo y voy a tener que trabajar en Ourense (en un pueblo), asi que quiero saber el tiempo de trayecto para salir antes de mi casa. Gracias
Hi, I travel a lot around Western Germany, Benelux. POLAND has changed its roads amazingly in recent years, we have overtaken Great Britain in the length of roads. Our roads are new, safe and comfortable in line with EU standards. Come to Poland, vacation business.
This motorway reaches an elevation of 1340 m at Padornelo Pass, that's only 30 m below Brenner Pass, although the scenery is arguably not as impressive. Fun fact: According to wikipedia, if you don't count San Bernardino and Mont Blanc tunnels (which are part of motorways but the tunnels themselves only have one lane per direction), A-52 can be considered the 4th highest motorway in Europe, after the Spanish A-1 (1440 m) , the Italo-Austrian Brenner Motorway A22/A13 (1370m), and the Austrian A10 (1340m)
@@EuropeanRoads Oops, I forgot about A-92, and I've been through it! Now I see that some other high motorways like A-2 at the Puerto de Alcolea (1208 m) are missing too in the Wikipedia article.
@@davmorax6616 AP-6 also reaches approximately 1310 meters at the northwest portal of the Guadarrama Tunnel. I haven't been able to locate a sign though. A-23 reaches 1282 meters at the Puerto de Monrepós. Spain has most of the highest points on the European motorway system.
@@EuropeanRoads Yes, that's what happens when like 80% of the country is a huge plateau surrounded by mountains. BTW, you know the Spanish motorway system better than me! Love your videos! :)
@@davmorax6616No way 80% of Spain is meseta. Meseta is a high plateau. In Spain It lies mainly in the Two Castillas, León and Madrid. These regions extent for less than 200.000 sq km. And a lot of mountains and large hills on them (nearly half the surface of the Two castillas). So meseta is no more than 25 to 30% of Spanish surface.
