re: Looking for Recommendations for Spain

If I could afford it, I would stay in the Paradors.

If I had the time, I'd redo a trip we did a decade ago last week of November, first week of December. I'd go to Gerona, one of the most beautiful small cities I've ever seen in fall. Then slowly work my way down to Tarragona, which I love. From walking evenings on la Rambla to visiting their museum for Roman relics, and then fussing with the local trasnportation system to get to the two leveled aquaduct to the nw of downtown to seeing the Rosemary growing as weeds with Thyme at the base of every Rosemary bush in abandoned fields.

Read Braudel's The Mediterranean to get a feel for the history. Drink Dr. Mueller white wine. Buy the local dry sausage that tastes so good that the smell doesn't matter.

So few tourists that you can fell like a local.