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We drove all over Spain in 2019 and it was fairly easy. It sure helped that we speak Spanish and my husband knows the metric system. Barcelona was pretty crazy in the center and Valencia was crazier. Parking is a hot mess but the outskirts of all large cities is pretty easy.

Love your videos. Clear and concise. Very helpful indeed. Well done 👍🏻🇪🇸

Wow what a fabulous video. Thankyou so much. Incredibly helpful.

Thanks a lot for the video! I will be in the Canary Islands in Tenerife starting Friday! You have answered more than the questions I had. God bless you!

Once again, Tony, you are the king of helpful videos about visiting Spain. All the positive comments that could possibly be said about you, the information, and the way you present it...I will triple! AAA to you! with muchas gracias!

Very helpful and well delivered, thank you!

Thank you for the very informative video. I m going through all of your Spain videos one by one to prep for a trip in 2weeks. They are the most helpful ones I can find on internet. Thank you 🙏

this is super helpful! Thank you so much for this great information.

This is as useful as it gets! Thank you so much. I'm feeling more confident now about our trip in January to Andalucia.

Very informative and useful video, thank you!

Many thanks for your time & useful info 🙏🙏🙏

Thank you very much for your kind explanations!

Me encanto! Una explicación facilísima de entender y bastante concisa! Súper buen trabajo!

Excellent video. Very useful and well-made. Hello from Ireland, and thank you.

Very useful video. Thanks for sharing the info.

This is extremely useful! Thank you!

❤❤❤❤Hi sir thank you for crossing my way this morning...love to listen your calm clear way of speaking... I think I will learnmore from you about driving here in Spain.. I have difficulty of the language here but I'm sure watching your videos will teach me a lot❤❤❤❤❤

Wonder video! Thanks for sharing ;). Looking forward to visit Spain soon.

Hi Tony, I love your explaining voice, its calm and controlled. We are rebooking our failed COVID trip from June 2020 and I am super excited and nervous at the same time but you are definitely making the process easier and calmer. KUDOS!!!

Thank you for all the good advice 🙏

Great video as always. Thanks 🙏

Just wanted to say that I can tell you worked hard on this video and I appreciate the effort!

Great video, answered all my questions prior to driving in Spain.

Thanks Tony, very helpful.

About to spend 20 days driving around Spain and Portugal so this is possibly the best video I've watched! Gracias.

Thank you for the video. One tip I'd add, for Americans specifically, is to use the left lane on autopistas/autovias for passing only. This etiquette is not common in the USA where many drivers will just stay in the left lane (or center lanes when there are 3+lanes), causing other drivers to pass/overtake them on the right. Another tip is about zipper/late merging when one lane is reduced on autopistas/autovias. Some drivers may come from regions where most drivers abandon the lane that's closing as soon as they know is closed ahead, well before the merge, causing frustration at the merge point.

Thanks Tony. UK crew.

thank you for the tips, i'm coming to Spain end of this month and plan to drive along from Barcelona to Valencia and Seville

❤ Great video - very easy to understand

¡Muchas gracias por la información!

very helpful thank you. i go to lanzarote twice a year. some of the traffic light systems there we dont have in 🇬🇧 but i learned something new from this video. thanks again 👍

Great video. Thank you.

Vídeo MUY informatívo. ¡GRACIAS! ☺

Great video :). But one thing: dont forget snow chains if you visit Central Spain (Segovia, Ávila, Valladolid, Salamanca, Soria, Vitoria, Cuenca, Madrid, León or Burgos). Yes, there are some cold and snow waves every year. Enjoy this country! You are so welcome here and also in our brother country Portugal 🙂

Thanks for this Tony, I'm looking forward to driving from Lloret de Mar to Barcelona tomorrow!

Super helpful video!

Muy agradecido Tony! Saludos desde Puerto Rico! Subscrito al canal!

Hola Tony, gracias por la information, bastante util.👍

Great video.. very informative

Thank you for doing this. The rules are very similar to here in Canada. We are travelling soon and English videos help a lot.

Brilliant thank you so much. 😊

thank you so much!

Perfect video.. Thank you :)

Such a detailed explanation ! Just so helpful. I am planning to visit Spain soon from Mumbai, India. Thank you so much.

Thank you for this information. I am from the US and am coming to Spain next week on a photo and video safari where I will be driving almost every day to a new location or area.

We rented a car in Spain and toured Portugal and France with it, too. I remember in Paris I was driving on fumes and couldn't find a gas station - I had to enlist a taxi driver to take me there - most stations were closed due to a holiday. I was so happy I had a Mercedes mini-diesel. and fuel lasted a very long time.

perfect quality content with no nonsene humor or stuff or promotions. Appreciate the information👍

Such a very useful vedio. I will hire a car in Ganada and drive to Sevilla next month. Thank you for your sharing.

Thanks!

I left JAEN in the morning and drove to Burgos without having to stop for a light thanks to the Ring roads in Madrid. I was astonished and thankful to the Madrid Transport Ministry.❤

Thank you

Amazing 👏

Great video. Very informative. I love the idea of road trips but I hate renting a car. I don't want to search for parking and I don't want to be afraid to have a glass of wine or a beer. The last time I was in Spain I spent a lot of money on taxis. But it was worth it.

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Thanks again for a fantastic video. If you don't mind the comment, here in United Stated yellow color lines are used to let know drivers that they are driving in a two way traffic. Thanks so much, greetings from California.

Excellent information. Now it's time to update with additional information about Low Emission Zones. And will rental cars meet the requirements of the LEZs?

Thanks

Hi Tony, firstly, many thanks for setting up this channel in English and focusing on what Spain has to offer the road trip tourist. I found it very informative. I am booked on a ferry to Bilbao from Ireland for a motorcycle road trip but keeping a weather eye on the Covid situation. I have a few questions as I don't recall from my previous trip to the Picos de Europa in Oct 2018 how a few things work in Spain! Some petrol stations have pump attendants, so if a use these stations and wishing to pay for fuel by Mastercard, do I pay at pump, pay attendant or can I pay inside the kiosk as he/she is filling the tank? How do I say in Spanish "please fill the tank"? Finally, the intention is to travel to Nerja September 12th, then to Granada, across to Cadiz September 19th and from there travel via Salamanca to Bilbao Sept 30th, what kind of temperatures am I likely to encouter inthe Andaluscia region mid to end September? Many thanks

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Good video. Going to Spain I. September and hiring a car. Will be near enough my first time driving in Spain. I did have a tiny experience of it last year going on a quad bike for 3 hours some of that time on roads following someone. I noticed a few times I nearly went to left when there were oncoming cars as I’m used to driving in the uk where you do drive on the left. So this is going to be the main thing I have to remember in Spain. Sounds easy but I’m sure there will be times I do have to be reminded. Can’t go through red lights ever in uk so that will be easy to remember.

Excellent advice on 20 km below posted limit when passing a cyclist !

Hi Tony, I watched this video last year, before visiting Mallorca, and found it very helpful. I drove for two weeks without a problem. Just had one fright, turning from a roundabout onto the MA 13, started to speed up down the slip lane to the Motorway, to find that I had to give way to traffic on the left lane of the sliplane. This would never happen in the UK, and you may wish to mention this hazard, if you update this video. Keep up the good work!

Perhaps include a piece on road signs. The arrows indicating who has the right of way are not intuitive for foreign drivers. Also the fact most gas stations require you to prepay and to enter the amount you are willing to reach. Some people don't realize you won't be charged the amount you enter if you don't fill up to that level, only that it's the maximum you would be charged. Very helpful!

Thank you for the tips. I would like to make a road trip from Netherlands to spain with my 2014 FIAT panda.

A great video, gracias. Can you offer any similar advice for the dos-and-donts-of-driving in Portugal too? I know the Portugal road rules are broadly similar to Spain and Italy and France but there must be important differences still, no? Thank you.

thanks for this video! i’m from london and will be driving in fuerteventura. do you have any tips as i just got my license

I was 60+ with a life time or driving on the left when I had the bright idea in Cadiz to purchase a 400 cc scooter to tour central and northern Spain. Two things, never drove on the right and the scooter was a death trap, good manufacturer undone by 15 years of hard use and poor maintenance. Got on my way with a trial trip Cadiz-Granada-Cadiz and a few hundred K's on inner city roads. Autopista was fantastic to drive countered by 2 lane blacktops with variable centre line or not. At night reverting to the lefthand lane on a low illumination country road was very easy and sometimes not obvious for kilometers. 4,000 km over 10 days on the scooter before it haemorrhaged all fluids and discharged sundry metallic bits, another 1,000 km in 10 hours driving a Golf. Enough about my experience, what did I learn that Tony hasn't mentioned. STOPPING DISTANCES, especially on the scooter but also albeit to a lesser extent in cars. Whether due to a build up of oil or fine dust my STOPPING DISTANCES were substantially LONGER than I experienced in NZ when the road is dry. DRY ROAD SURACES WERE SLIPPERY!

I moved to Portugal and its very easy to drive in Portugal, just like home.

Hi Tony, really enjoyed your video and your very pleasant presentation manner. One question please, I understand the need for a HI-VIS jacket, if say I breakdown on a main road. But let's say I pull into a open patch of ground next to a country road. Do I still need to wear a HI-VIS jacket, if say I leave the car to take a picture?

Hello Tony, just subscribed to your channel. Once again thank you very much for this informative video! this is just my 2nd video! I'll go through all your videos about driving in Spain. We will be in Madrid end of November and planning on renting car to see the surroundings of Madrid - Toledo, Avila, Segovia & Salamanca would be the furthest west we will go. Should I be concern of snow in November? We are 1stimers here. Thank you very much.

Thank you so much for this very informative video. A question if I may - does the fluorescent jacket have to be yellow, or can it be e.g. also orange or green? Some countries have very strict rules on the colour of the jacket, so just wondering. Thanks.

Thank you! Do you have any tips for driving in Mallorca?

Thank you, helpful. I am planning to drive from Seville train station to cordoba, then to granada, torrox/malaga, and white villages , then from malaga to ronda to seville. Include a drive from seville to cadiz... any tips to select good routes... it will be in 1st week ofOctober, mainly.

Do a video on the 8 lane rotondas because they are more confusing than spanish verb conjugation

Great video! How is the drive from Malaga to Puerto Banus?

I wish I had been driving a four wheel drive in Arcos de la Frontera. The rental car I was driving had a clutch that slipped. I almost didn't make it up the hill to the plaza.

Excellent video.. THANK YOU. I am travelling from the UK to Malaga via Salamanca then to Cartagen then to Valencia, then home via Zaragoza..... I have bought a clean air zone sticker for France but am struggling to see if I need one in Spain....my campervan is new and Euro 6 ,please can you advise..... thanks again Howard.

Hola, I am planning on renting a regular bicycle in the Gothic area. I am traveling solo next month and spending 10 days there. Will it be challenging riding a bicycle all over the place including Sagrada Familia? Thank you.

Thank you so much for this very informative video! I'm planning to stay in Spain and Portugal for a month and am planning on potentially renting a car so your tips came in handy (paying after pumping gas for example!). Do you have any recommendations in terms of what map service to use? Is google maps enough? You made a point about not using the autovias when doing road trips, is there a way to disable this on any mapping service (turn off highway)? Again, thank you so much for the video!

Do you have any advise for roadside assistance insurance? What should we know in case of any emergency while driving? Thank you again for being an invaluable resource. Regards.

Thank you for sharing so many of your videos. We arrived in Madrid yesterday and I have been following your instructions from the airport and have had no issues from buying metro tickets to places to stay and eat. Question: what is the fastest and inexpensive way to get an eSIM for my iPhone for our 9 day stay as we travel around Spain. Thanks.

Hello, I have a suggestion. You videos are very helpful but even more helpful would be real world explanations. Example, on this video if you stop the video at 1:06 and 2:14 which show real road side signs and then if you could explain exactly what they are saying line by line or even word by word, that would be fantastic. I'm also now watching your types of roads video and the same suggestion would apply there. Keep up the great work you do in any case, very helpful.

Thank you very much for your video which is very helpful for me as i plan to drive from Lagos to Sevilla, then onward to Barcelona, exploring the quaint and charming smaller cities and towns in Southern Spain。 May I know how i drive from Portugal to Spain in a rental car? welcome advice for alternative modes of transportation. Thank you and best regards! 😀

Thank you for this awesome video. We are planning to rent a car while in Spain. How do you know when you have received a traffic violation from a roadside camera and how do you "pay it immediately"?

Thanks. In a 90 zone, overtake a bicyclist at 70, that’s counterintuitive to overtaking a car in the usa.

i love the information. I would like to drive from Lisbon to Florence. can you help me plan the trip. I would like to take 3 weeks to sight see

Hi, great video thank you. We are driving from Madrid Airprot to Nerja July 2nd. A family of 7. Any advice please on best route? We’d hope to stop a couple of times to eat and stretch our legs. Thank you. Donal

Great video, we are planning to come to Madrid on September this year. This is our first in Spain too. We will be renting a car to drive to Boltana for our hotel.

After 7 years of driving in Spain, the thing that still haunts me is the number of people who hug the right hand lane all the way round the rotonda even when they're taking the last exit. This can mean that they're outside (& quite often behind) you as you attempt to take the second or third exit. It happens very regularly.

I noticed amber flashing lights on the congested section of the motorway/freeway MA-20 between the airport and Malaga (not at a crosswalk) not sure what the mean, can't seem to find information online. I assume it means caution?

Hello Thank you for your videoes on taking the train and driving in Spain and Portugal. May I seek your advice? We are palnning to drive from Porto to San Sebatian along in November. Is it advisable to rent a car in Porto and drop it off in a town in Portugal before Spain? Which car hire companies allow this? Then, we would like to hire a car in a town Spain and the drop-off would San Sebastian ? What are your recoomendations ? Thank you for yor time.

We are wondering if you would recommend driving from Granada to Lisbon. We are also looking at flying but we would prefer to drive and see some of the beautiful cities along the way.

Thank you for this and all your other helpful videos! We have a question about the type of driving licence required. Our hire car company (we will collect the car from Dollar in Zaragoza ) says we need an international driving permit. We have UK licences and have hired cars in Lanzarote with no problems just with our UK licence so wonder if you know whether we really do need the international licence? Thanks in advance for any advice you can give.

I'm confused as to driving on the right? Do you mean just stick to the right lane? Also, any tips on driving from Málaga to Nerja? I've watched this video like 5 times. Thank you so much for this. Super rich information

Hi, thanks for sharing. Una pregunta por favor. I am from Tunisia and have been in Barcelona for 2 months, I am getting my TIE card in one month and buying a car next week. My question is can I drive with my tunisian driving licence untill I change it to spanish one ? some people say says some say no, I am confused 😕 Thanks in advance 🙏

Hello. I am going to go to Sevilla in August. This is my third time in Spain and I've been going back to Europe (from the U.S.) in the last 6 years. We've always just taken the public transportation since we really don't leave the city center (unless tours). This time, we'd like to try renting a car and drive from Sevilla to Algarve/Lagos region in Portugal. And also - consider the possibility of driving to different Andalucian cities instead of taking the train. Thank you for this video - it's really helpful with the basic info. I have a few questions and I'd really appreciate if you can give tips: - Do I need to have some kind of temporary license? Or will my passport and original license (where I'm from) do? - Once we enter Portugal border - do we need to stop and show documents (passport, etc)? - The idea of taking the country roads sounds really nice - I'd like to do that... but will there be available ones to drive in Portugal (coming from Sevilla)? - Can the maps/gps tell what country rides to take if we don't like the "autovias"? - Is it easy to move from country road to "autovias" or vice versa as we drive? - With the Covid situation now - can we just drive to Portugal (from Sevilla) or do we need some kind of health document to show when we enter the border (like vaccine proof, negative test results, etc)? Our trip is coming soon and I'm really excited! :) Thank you again for your time and info!

What is the lane discipline for turning right on a rotundas? Do you stay in the outside lane or got to the middle?

As a Brit, we fill our fuel up in litres and drive in miles per hour. We have to deal with both Imperial and metric every day. We like to be different 😂

First, thanks for your advice and the video is very useful.​ I have a question ?​ Drinking water or coffee is allowed while driving?​ Hanging a mobile phone next to the steering wheel for the sake of maps, does it count as a traffic violation?