Spain vs Portugal - what is it like to go on holiday?

Green wine?! 🙂 gravel in the South. Hehe. Portugal wins!

The nice Portuguese people, the beaches (the waves!), the green wine and the beautiful nature are strong pluses for Portugal, but I agree that Spain has some great places!

Seems like Portugal is in our favour! 🙂

Take care......:-)

The main difference - we think - when it comes to seafood in particular, is that in Portugal (especially on the Algarve coast in the south) restaurants almost always serve freshly caught fish.

In Spain, however, you almost never get fresh fish in the restaurants and in the shops it is almost always frozen fish that has been thawed and sold, which we find a bit boring!

Today we left El Raco Camping in Benidorm and we are now at the well-known and nice campsite Spätzle Fritz, which is located 32 miles north of Benidorm next to the town of Vinaros - recommended !!!!

Now that I'm studying Portuguese, it sounds like it should be on my list even though I'm studying from a Brazilian perspective!

Are you hungry for more festivals?
http://www.dn.se/resor/ett-eget-land-i-sydfrankrikes-hjarta/

It's been a long time since I commented, I've been travelling in Portugal:-) and haven't had time to catch up yet:-)

I agree with some of your list. For example, the Portuguese tend to be friendlier than the Spanish (in service professions).
Agree that English works poorly in Spain and better in Portugal for several reasons.
I find some motorways terribly complicated in Portugal, I have travelled a lot but still do not understand how to pay. The latest information is that you can go to the post office and pay. It is also very expensive! I have never travelled on a toll road in Spain, not even in the north. The motorways / road signs are also difficult to follow (unless you are going to Lisbon, all roads lead to Lisbon ...), where cities that you CAN reach via part of the said motorway are on the signs, but it can be a real detour. Here I want to add a disadvantage of Portugal; that the house numbers are not in order but can jump from 103 to 40 to 95 and so on. Very difficult to find a specific address.
Beaches: possibly gravel on Mediterranean beaches in Spain, not on the Atlantic coast, where the sand is as fine-grained as in the Algarve.
Don't quite agree with your observation of nature. Spain and Portugal are very similar, the Algarve is as barren as southern Andalusia, then it gets greener the further up you go.
When you write that you feel Portugal is less exploited, I first thought that you meant tourism and what has been built in the wake of tourism, and thought that you have been to the only places in Spain where foreigners really gather. But then I realised that maybe you mean that the land is more exploited in Spain, and I can agree with that. All the land that can be cultivated is cultivated here. In Portugal, I feel that the conditions for cultivation are slightly worse and that more industries have been built instead. At the same time, Spain is a slightly richer country than Portugal, or at least was before the crisis, partly thanks to farming. This has led to the boring plastic sea in Almería (although you can drive past it, there are some fantastically beautiful places to discover! http://casaannika.blogspot.com.es/2014/12/almeria.html
Public toilets are better in Portugal than in Spain.
I disagree with Bosse and Gerd about the fish. Here, fresh fish is sold in the fish shops. Fresh fish is eaten a lot in the coastal regions of Spain, as well as in Portugal, while inland people eat more meat in both countries.

Nice to see a comparison!

I agree with much of what you write in the list. There are lots of attractions in both countries, but we like Portugal the most. It rains more in Portugal and that makes the country greener. We also like the food more in Portugal and that they are not so touristy.