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Location: Segovia, central Spain, 1230 m asl, Csb Mediterranean with strong continental influence, 40º43 N
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The funny thing is that, as the Iberian peninsula is a quadrilateral four-shided shape and I live in the central area of it, wherever I came from the four cardinal points, there is always a beach.
As I said before, Santander is the closest one as it's located some 390 km away north, then Valencia at 425 km away east, then Figueira da Foz at 488 km away west in Portugal, and finally Motril at 546 km away south.
As you can see, each of them is climatically way different to the others.
Thus, people from my town and adjacent areas too usually tend to go to Valencia rather than Santander because that northern city can be very gloomy sometimes.
Location: Segovia, central Spain, 1230 m asl, Csb Mediterranean with strong continental influence, 40º43 N
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Originally Posted by The East Frisian
Looks like that seems to be a german thing only to pay for entering a beach, i also think the beaches should be free to everyone.
There was a time that I did a ten-days trip from home to The Netherlands by car, and it was three years ago.
One day I was 3 km away west to Vlissingen to experience those large sandy beaches they have there; the beach still was free, but the parking that I previously found by the GPS was located in a plot of land which was not for free, but 6 € a day.
We don't have many crabs here, only the chinese mitten crab. Our waters aren't salty enough. European crayfish is excellent though, it's actually tastier than the Spanish or French similar crayfish. Must be the salinity and temps of the water. We have also the signal crayfish, but it is not as good. The Chinese are particularly poor.
But you're allowed to fish them only from mid July to October, so they're hideously expensive.
There was a time that I did a ten-days trip from home to The Netherlands by car, and it was three years ago.
One day I was 3 km away west to Vlissingen, to experience those large sandy beaches they have there; the beach still was free, but the parking that I previously found by the GPS was located in a plot of land which was not for free, but 6 € a day.
Location: Segovia, central Spain, 1230 m asl, Csb Mediterranean with strong continental influence, 40º43 N
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Originally Posted by Mac15
That looks like NI.
Do your ancestors built dikes, human dunes and polders there to prevent your country being flooded by both high tides and European winter storms? I don't think so, but whatever.
Other than that, both are gloomy oceanic Cfb climates, so the way landscapes look would be almost the same in both countries. .
There was a time that I did a ten-days trip from home to The Netherlands by car, and it was three years ago.
One day I was 3 km away west to Vlissingen to experience those large sandy beaches they have there; the beach still was free, but the parking that I previously found by the GPS was located in a plot of land which was not for free, but 6 € a day.
This one:
It must be strange having to go uphill to get to the sea. Or are my eyes deceiving me?
LA and OC beaches are the closest, weather in summer is usually mid 70s through mid 80s on average. The warmest being long beach, and coolest redondo beach.
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