Hello whoever stumbles upon this post!
Looking for advice and ideas. 11/08/2026 will travel to Porto, Portugal with a plan to get a rental and travel to Spain. Idea is to find a hotel somewhere between Porto, Portugal and Leon, Spain and on the big day travel somewhere around Leon to find a viewing area.
Maybe someone could advise how to really choose a viewing spot? Is getting snacks and parking on random roadside would be a good idea? Never been to Spain, so had to imagine what to expect!
For reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_August_12,_2026
There’s a static image of the path, plus an animated gif of timing.
Thank you for link, but this is not the information im looking for, i know the path an times, but more specific places, how to choose one.
Oh, this was mostly for others, in case they didn’t know. Just wanna help how I can.
that’s thoughtful:) will you go to see eclipse as well?
Yep! Going to Iceland. Plane and hostel paid for.
wow nice! I didn’t really check Iceland option that much, because of cost. But would love to go to Iceland some other time! Hope you will have an amazing trip!!!
Hope you find a spot in mainland Europe! I expect it’ll be limited and costly at this point (I booked in September and things were mostly booked).
i check, and, in my opinion, it’s that bad, could find quite many decent places, especially becaue we are splitting in half and because we are so much more flexible with car. £200 for 2nights for 2, not bad at all
That’s really good! I couldn’t get a hotel at all for that price. I ended up with a hostel for 200 a night in a 6-person room in Reykjavik. Most hotels were completely booked or at least 400 a night (and I’m going for 6 days).
Probably because Iceland is closer to the States, and has one of the longest times for totality.