This weekend I visited my friends António and Graça, they came to get me at the railway station of Santarem on friday evening, and took me to their house. In my email I had said, "please do not make any problem, I can sleep on the couch!" Well, seems that this was an understatement, since they have 12 bedrooms!! The house is wonderful, large but …
We heard about Nazare, Portugal from an Austrailian woman who was staying in our hostel in San Sebastian, Spain. Our travel book didn´t have any information on the town but she raved about it so we decided to check it out. She also mentioned that she ...
... that has a viewfinder filled with European images. We are not so much into the food in Portugal, lots of people eat hotdogs and pastries. Nazare has one fantastic store where a crazy haired artist woman has a studio from which she ...
... . We were very concerned about where the bus was taking us as nothing was looking appealing. Then around the corner came Nazare - a beautiful little town right against the Atlantic ocean. Lots of sand, sun and shopping - kind of like Whiterock ...
We were going to head to Lisbon but decided to stop in Nazare first. Nazare is a pretty ocean town that is very busy in the summer with tourists and beach goers. We arrived to a slightly overcast day and an empty beach. We stopped at a small restaurant ...
... , so of course we had to stop to try some. Yummy! We then finished our day at a beautiful little beach community called Nazare. We had another nice sunset, this time from our hotel room balcony, and finished the evening with a dinner of fresh ...
A quiet day just getting sorted again! When you are travelling everyday you sometimes need to do nothing for a day or so just to organise the cupboards, garage and get straight again. Sweep out and clean floors and generally just be!! ...
... and his murdered love Inés de Castro. This is quite a story which you can read about it in Wikipedia under Pedro 1 nof Portugal. The nave is a huge and slender space, devoid of any ornamentation, which envelops you in a feeling of ...