Portugal & Spain: A24 + A-75 Chaves - Verín

[@Phynne85]

I like those vids with electronic music. So much more satifaction and Adrenalin

[@danachappell3861]

Beautiful scenery!! I love your adventures. I never know where you are taking us until I get on board. lol Love the hills, the dales, the sunshine, and nice highway. Have a great week, and can't wait for the next adventure!!!

[@GazilionPT]

3:08 This small river (or creek) makes the border between Portugal and Spain. Fun fact: on the Portuguese side (going north, to Galicia, Spain) the river is identified (on the signage) under its Galician name (Ribeira de Feces), while on the Galician/Spanish side (going south, to Portugal) the river is identified (on the signage) under its Portuguese name (Rio Pequeno).

[@XOSTRAS]

Portugal y España, paises hermanos.

[@diogorodrigues747]

Y Galicia y Portugal aún son más hermanos, son "irmaos"...

[@ivanmacgar6447]

@@diogorodrigues747 no solo Galicia, también Extremadura, Huelva, la antigua región leonesa (Salamanca, Zamora, León) e incluso Asturias tienen bastantes similitudes con Portugal, si bien es verdad que en el caso de Galicia por idioma es más obvio.

[@driving_all_over]

I like how Portugal use the same font for their motorway numbers as we do

[@joeharper9126]

Jovis where you from?

[@driving_all_over]

@@joeharper9126 The UK

[@RochaGamesPT001]

Uk motorways is the shittiest I have been, 70 mph speed limit, speed traps everywhere. In Portuguese and Spanish highways there is giant hills and big ass curves at 75 mph and no speed traps ready to destroy people's lifes

[@driving_all_over]

@@RochaGamesPT001 The antiquidated ones don’t eg the M50

[@AVG-qw3bz]

Have you recorded the A4 from Amarante to Vila Real? That section has a 6km lenght tunnel, and awesome bridges! (Túnel do Marão and Viaduto do Corgo)

[@diogorodrigues747]

Your first video in Portugal!!! Wow... 😲

[@albertodillon]

I remember in the old times you have to change money Spanish pesetas into Portuguese escudos or vice versa now no problems with Euros

[@MelodicEngine]

Superbe vidéo, musique au top !

[@rapdouceur]

Yoann Cintrat La musique avec la vidéo me donne des frissons

[@DaveDVideoMaker]

Do you have any videos when driving in Romania, Serbia, Slovakia or Hungary (not uploaded to KZbin)? If so, please upload them if you can.

[@EFRANEED]

Beautiful

[@jesusiscoming4358]

I am from Verín :D

[@diogorodrigues747]

Quando penso em Verín, a primeira coisa que me lembro é do polvo e do castelo de Monterrei. Estive aí em 2018 e diria que é uma bonita cidade... ;)

[@Hugo-Funky]

I am from chaves

[@JAlves88]

​@@Hugo-FunkyI am from the village of anelhe 😂 next door

[@rp7159]

What a dream? Totally different from UK. Hardly any cars on the road, no litter, no dumped bottles of urine, no bollards, no lane closures, no signs of weeds growing out of the cracking tarmac, no dumped tyres, no unmanned roadworks, no stop start traffic, an actual hard shoulder in case of breakdown to pull into and no smart motorways!!

[@DaveDVideoMaker]

And not as many tolls (except the M6 Toll in Birmingham, and the M4/M48 toll bridges near Bristol).

[@diogorodrigues747]

@@DaveDVideoMaker Yes, that's true... England has much less tolls than Portugal (or Spain)!

[@PrimiusLovin]

Don't think that it's all sunshine and roses down here, there are bad roads like in pretty much any other country. I traveled through the south of England and I don't remember seeing anything of what you're talking about! I also traveled in Spanish, French and Swiss motorways and I have to say that the Swiss motorways are kind of a letdown and not exactly up to the same motorway standard because pretty much every local village has access to them making Swiss motorways way more congested, especially around cities... but hey, you only pay 40 swiss francs per year to have access to the motorway, so I guess you get what you pay for.

[@RochaGamesPT001]

Uk motorways are the worst ever roads. Filled with speed traps and speed limit changes everywhere, plain and monogamous. Police checking you 24/7, horrible contry

[@EpicThe112]

Like it from what I can see with the locals there is mutual intelligibility between European Portuguese and Castilian Spanish to make it easy on the Spanish Traveler on this Motorway which is evident on the signage. Portuguese Motorway tolls seem to operate like interstate 90 Massachusetts Turnpike and the entire Pennsylvania Turnpike system since March this year all electronic tolls.

[@diogorodrigues747]

No, Castillian Spanish speakers have lots of trouble to understand European Portuguese speakers! Galician speakers, however, can understand European Portuguese very well (and the region after the border is Galicia).

[@tanjawiuk709]

Olá a todos .. Tenho uma pergunta, por favor .. Entre Chaves e Virín na Espanha em que cidade o shopping é mais barato ..como açúcar melk, peixe e frutas ... Agradecemos antecipadamente ..

[@diogorodrigues747]

Shopping? Não há centro comercial nem em Verín nem em Chaves... O mais próximo é em Vila Real (Portugal), se não estou em erro. E eu estou a excluir o centro comercial da Carrefour em Ourense porque não é bem um centro comercial mas sim uma galeria comercial com lojas da marca francesa Carrefour.

[@euro_public_transport]

Dear European Roads, can you please film the B1 and the E40 in Aachen and the N278 from Vaals to Maastricht? p.s. I live in one of these regions

[@Xapiro]

😍

[@GazilionPT]

1:31 You're wrong. "V. V.de Raia" is not a misspelling. Note that the *"de" is on a smaller font, and raised,* meaning it's not the misspelled preposition+article "da" but rather part of an *abbreviation:* "V.de" is the abbreviated form of "Verde". Cutting some letters in the middle but leaving the very last letter(s) is a common way of abbreviating. That's how "Senhor" becomes "Sr.", "Doutora" becomes "Dra.", and "número" becomes "n.º". The same thing happens in English: "Ga." for "Georgia", "Pa." for "Pennsylvania", "Dr." for "Doctor". Going back to the signage on A24: in fact, the original signs were "V. V.da Raia", and *that* was the misspelled version, so they were corrected to "V. V.de Raia".

[@GazilionPT]

Ah, a real mistake (or miscommunication) on the A24 is the mismatch between km markers and exit numbering. Clearly, two different guys dealt with each of those (or a very excentric guy dealt with both), because km 0 is at the border with Spain (Galicia) and numbers grow southwards, all the way to Viseu, while exits are numberer 1 to 22 from south to north (1 in Viseu, 22 just before the Spanish border)... It's a bit confusing.

[@fredgrove4220]

How long has the tolls been electronic? When I used to do Portugal regularly, they would only accept cash.

[@diogorodrigues747]

Since 2011, and only in some highways (most of them were freeways).

[@alexanderdimitrovsky866]

More videos in Portugal 🇵🇹🙏

[@diogorodrigues747]

I think he has more videos in Portugal... I read an Internet forum (SkyscraperCity) and he have published a few fotos of other Portuguese roads.

[@muminmirzoev3376]

cool roads (Let's be friends)

[@peridot12782]

3:10 Spain

[@ivanpalmerjuan3834]

What is the title of this music from the video, please?

[@DaveDVideoMaker]

Look in the description or at the end of the video. You’ll find it.

[@pedrorubiotejero_aka_prt]

These motorways like A24 was constructed under a form of motorways called SCUT (Without Costs for the User in English). But in 2011 all this free motorways became tolled. Also, I hope you recorded some Portuguese roads

[@diogorodrigues747]

It's true, unfortunatelly. But I think that in Spain it will happen the same thing that in Portugal soon.

[@pedrorubiotejero_aka_prt]

@@diogorodrigues747 For now, that was a typical summer Spain's government promise. Spain's summer gvernment promises just lasts for the rest of the summer

[@alican8497]

adamsın bro :)

[@aymanla471]

before the EU there was a hard border between spain and portugal or no ?

[@kempo_95]

Before the EU, yes.

[@bundesautobahn7]

Hard border but in Euro-style of the time soft-ish. You could in theory still be waved through the border without customs check and passport control, especially during vacation season.

[@Hugo-Funky]

United states of europe ♥️

[@mrknowmyself]

Music😍😘

[@tenzinsangpo2221]

Buena sera-ciai ciao By Mauro

[@igordzik1358]

Music???

[@diogorodrigues747]

"Through the door", Lumidelic

[@igordzik1358]

@@diogorodrigues747 дякую.

[@diogorodrigues747]

@@igordzik1358 Sorry, I don't speak Russian. :(

[@igordzik1358]

@@diogorodrigues747 gracie

[@rdtdababy859]

Hold up 0.65 euros and 1.65 Euros That’s got to be werid and how

[@markdecoto6046]

Weird how you barely know when you cross a border. Blink and you think you’re still in Portugal.

[@diogorodrigues747]

That would be true if there were no road signs. Literally you cross the border and start seing things in Spanish... It's almost like a "footprint" of Spain, even though Galician and Portuguese are almost the same.

[@newmanchester8504]

My dad told me when you cross borders between countries in Europe, you have to show papers. He is dead wrong. Crossing border between countries in Europe is like crossing into another state in the United States. Showing paper work and going through red/yellow tape is on the borders of Mexico, Canada and the United States. Countries in Europe are part of the European Union (EU). On crossing the border, they are moving forward while Mexico, Canada and the United States are moving backwards.

[@diogorodrigues747]

Actually the interesting part here is that you don't cross into very different countries at all. Galicia and Northern Portugal are quite the same - very similar landscapes, shared cuisine, a very identical language, a shared history, lots of cultural similarities...

[@newmanchester8504]

@@diogorodrigues747 , so Spain and Portugal are similar? Well, I've been to Europe. Northern Europe. Went to the UK, Belgium (an unknown town in the Flemish part of northern Belgium), Norway, Germany (Deutschland) and France in 2017 on a cruise. Also, I've been to Mexico and Canada. I've never been to Portugal, Spain, Italy and the other countries. My father, mother and sister went to Spain, France (southern France) and Italy. My father thinks Spain is like Mexico and he also thinks he can buy whatever he wants with American money. Well, you don't. And what my dad thinks isn't true. He tried to buy something at a store in Hamburg and the people won't take his money because I was American. So I bought what he wanted with euros I had. One thing I notice in France and Germany is the drivers. When I was in Hamburg, Germany and Le Harve, in northwestern France the drivers are horrible. I also got ran over by a bus in Hamburg on a rainy day and also got ran over by people on bicycles. I heard British drivers are the worst. I didn't try any of the food in the countries I was in in Europe, but tried some British food on the cruise ship that I was on sailing to these countries. By the way, has Catalonia broke away from Spain?

[@diogorodrigues747]

@@newmanchester8504 No, Catalonia is still Spanish. Long story...

[@newmanchester8504]

@@diogorodrigues747 , I heard about it in the past. But, it is good that Catalonia is still Spanish. Unlike Mexico, Spain has other languages. Again, I've never been to Spain so I know a little by looking at things online. Spanish is here in the United States (in Texas where I live and in the southwest) and in Mexico, countries in North America and South America because it came from Spain through Spanish colonization in the new world. I am thinking that Spanish in North American countries like Cuba and South American countries have a different dialect that Spanish spoken in Spain. I know a little French because I want to learn how to speak French. French is the most difficult language to speak. In French, all I know is merci (Thank You), je parle francais (I speak French), Parlez-vous francais (Do you speak French?), Au revoir (goodbye), Nouvelle-France (New France), rappel (reminder) and Quebecois (people living in Quebec in Canada). You got Quebec French, Louisiana French or Cajun, Acadian French, Walloon ( French in the south part of Belgium) and Metropolitan French. I'll take Quebec French because it is more pure and old world than Metropolitan French. A stop sign in Quebec is ARRET.

[@diogorodrigues747]

@@newmanchester8504 Spain has a long and interesting history. Do you know why Spanish is also called "Castillian"?

[@muminmirzoev3376]

Классный дорога Давай дружить

[@rthelionheart]

In Spanish, "de" is correct. The signs show the name in Spanish which is where the destination ultimately is, in Spain.

[@EuropeanRoads]

The town is located in Portugal and its name is Vila Verde da Raia. However others have explained that 'V.V. de' is likely an abbreviation of 'verde' and not a misspelling of 'da'.

[@BORCH2212]

Los portugueses estan un poco desfasados en señalizacion. Hoy en día ya no se indica como destino el país sino la ciudad. En lugar de "Espanha" debería indicar Verín o algo así. De hecho en el camino de vuelta se indica A-75 Chaves. Por otra parte he visto señalizaciones de muchos países y la española es la mejor con diferencia: es mucho más visible, el tipo de letra y el tipo de cartel reflectante con los indicadores en recuadro hace que se vea infinitamente mejor.

[@diogorodrigues747]

A A24 do lado português é um pouco mais antiga que a A-75 do lado espanhol. A A24 no troço Vila Pouca-Chaves foi inaugurada em 2002 e a A-75 em 2011. As autoestradas mais recentes em Portugal, como a A4, não dizem Espanha, mas sim as localidades de destino do outro lado da fronteira naquela estrada. A sinalização em Portugal também reflete com a luz, sim... Não sei onde foste buscar essa ideia!

[@jmms6008]

Eh, chaval estuviste alguna vez en cataluña o en el país vasco??? Yo ya estuve en un montón de autopistas cuyo destino era “francia”

[@jmms6008]

Además, no es por nada, pero la señalización española tiene sus cosas, por ejemplo en las salidas no dice a donde vas, solamente te pone el número de la salida y ya. Además las autopistas españolas destacan en sus malas áreas de descanso y en los baches así que no las pongas como las mejores de europa porque no lo son.

[@jmms6008]

Además lo de que reflecta la luz, sucede en todo europa, en verdad dudo mucho que hayas conducido en otro país. Pero te dejo algunas ventajas de las autopistas portuguesas: - Generalmente mejor trazado y peraltado - Mejor asfalto - Mejores áreas de descanso - Peajes electronicos en gran parte del país donde no hay ni que reducir velocidad. - Señalización de las gasolineras mas cercanas con su precio (también lo hay en españa pero es muy poco común) - Menos radares - Implementaron mucho antes los galones que avisan de la distancia de seguridad - las señales que indican monumentos son mucho más vistosas - gasolineras en las que pagas en el surtidor como en Francia, mucho mas cómodo. Ventajas de las españolas: - Gasolina mucho más barata - Menos peajes (de momento)

[@jmms6008]

Además, que narices! Las señales españolas no se leen mejor ni de coña, a veces tienen demasiada información y otras veces hay que leer entre lineas porque las señales están medio en euskera y no se entienden