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Historic village
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Nearly Nine
... or come for the first time as Lucy told me because she believes that a black hole swallowed her up when we were last in Portugal !!! Elvas On the way back, I was moving. Now normally, I never tell Lucy how fast I drive, but with this fucking ...
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Wonderful Portugal!
... recovery. Although we only crossed an invisible country borderline from Spain the differences were noticable immediately upon entering Portugal. Most importantly, the people were kind, generous and eager to help. They were proud ...
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Portugally Yours...
... the mysterious zone between borders. Maybe that's a safe place to make a ruckus but it sure was awesome. The road into Elvas, Portugal (the first castle town over the border) was a little winding route riding along-the-freeway, with really no cars ...
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Evora, tout en traversant le centre du Portugal
... 259: Après des heures de route, merci à Louis qui a tenu le volant même dans les petite routes sinueuses du centre du Portugal. Disons qu'au-delà du « power steering », il fallait du « power bras » pour ne pas se retrouver dans un ...
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Elvas Jul 14, 2010
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Heart of Alentejo
Landscape is full of vineyards. Soil is structured through shale. That makes Alentejo's wines quite mineraly - as they accompany venison (boar in our case) well. Good dinner at Café Restaurant Alentejano. Many excellent wines do not find their ways to ...
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Elvas y Evora
March 15 Elvas Another hour of motorway driving has brought us into Portugal, and by 3 pm we were exploring this little hill town of Elvas (please, no Graceland jokes). We had already noticed a change of architecture in western Spain, with white hacienda ...
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The Quiet Alentejo
We'd planned meander around eastern Portugal in the Alentejo region. This region is isolated and off the beaten path. Lying on the border of Extremadura Spain, the land is rustic but lovely, to say the least. We left the valley and ventured toward the ...
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Spanish influence
... television for his reelection (he will not be successful). It's one of the rare moments that I experienced dinnertable television in Portugal's restaurants not opting for the football channel. In the morning we get prepared for the third leg of our tour ...
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Elvas
The small castle town of Elvas was disappointing in that the castle was locked up tight to visitors so all we could do was walk around the castle wall. It did look to be in great shape, however. Located just 15km from Badajoz, Spain, this castle saw ...
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