Portugal Travel Blogs

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A travel blog entry from Monsaraz by stevefn
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Faial, Pico and Sao Jorge Island.

A travel blog entry from Horta by stevefn
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Sagres, Cabo San Vicente, Salema, Burgau, Praia da Luz and Faro.

A travel blog entry from Sagres by stevefn
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... enough so we headed south. If going west across Spain wasn't going to work we'd go south and go to a whole new country - Portugal.   And it worked, as the border came into sight the clouds began to thin, the rain stopped and by the time we crossed ...

A travel blog entry from Viano Do Castelo by peteandmandy
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... here. The accompanying photo making it look a lot better than it was. We spent the evenings in the tent sheltering from the cold wind and with the forecast of more of the same we made the call to move on, leaving Portugal behind, heading inland towards...

A travel blog entry from Costa Nova by peteandmandy
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... one of Portugals largest banks. After that we said our goodbyes to Lisbon andgot on our night train back to Madrid. Portugal was a terrific country, I definately plan on going back sometime and seeing what else it has to offer. The people were friendly, ...

A travel blog entry from Lisbon by tbassplayer
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... . As we board the bus we're handed a bottle of water by a beautiful young guy in the costume of the prime minister of Portugal from the year in the 1700s that a devastating tsunami hit Lisboa.  He is giving away the water that inundated the city. Our ...

A travel blog entry from Lisbon by aussiepanda
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... the globe (the latter under Spanish sponsorship). The giant Monument to the Discoveries reminds us of the discoveries of Portugal's early explorers while seafaring motifs proliferate in the cloister at the Monastery of Jeronimos. Belem is also where the ...

A travel blog entry from Lisbon by chronometers
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... costs around $2.50. Hopefully this should help explain why we are only spending seven nights in Europe. A few more days in Portugal, then quickly through Spain to get to Morocco. She Said: A few things Todd left out... I unexpectedly cried for the ...

A travel blog entry from Lisbon by globedecker
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... ) (months ago, im the organised one) and at 5.15 Friday night I found out I was going to Porto (in Portugal).. Pretty tiled Buildings, bridges galore, Port (not that i drink it) many many beautiful churches.. Our plane out was delayed an hour so ...

A travel blog entry from Porto by itsem
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... the New York area, we are continually surrounded by people speaking different languages and practicing diverse customs. Here in Portugal, the people, culture, foods, and way of life aren't that much different than those we encountered in previous travels ...

A travel blog entry from Evora by globedecker
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... streets are done in mosaics of small basalt rock. It is pounded into sand. This can be seen in many towns and cities around Portugal. It is very predominant in the cities of the Algarve area, it gives them a unique charm. The old town area is very neat. ...

A travel blog entry from Faro by audreyandjack
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... . Port day in Porto. Getting lost everyday while hiking in Serra da Estrella, but still making it up the highest point in Portugal. Suddenly deciding to go home early. Cheese and bread diet. Drinking way way too much in Lagaos. The day of puking ...

A travel blog entry from Lisbon Airport by bootsmade4wlkin
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... free).  So instead, we headed back for the night after making the decision to seek out a fado performance elsewhere in Portugal. The next morning after a fabulous breakfast and packing our lunch, we headed out to tour some of the gardens of the ...

A travel blog entry from Coimbra by meganandkevin
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... enjoying their Sunday. Most shops and even a lot of restaurants close on Sunday. It is a real family day still in Portugal. There were peacocks and chickens running loose around the park. We then took a train from Cascais back to Lisbon. It went all ...

A travel blog entry from Sintra by audreyandjack
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... free shot with every drink that you order. Any sleep that you get is a drunken sleep. I arrived in the party capital of Portugal with two days left, and determined to make the most of them. My hostel was called the Rising Cock, a family run place with ...

A travel blog entry from Lagos by bootsmade4wlkin
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A travel blog entry from Lisbon by marc-patty
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... salt marshes, sand bar islands and expansive beaches liberally sprinkled with Roman ruins that caps the southern most point in Portugal. The resulting environment is a strange but beautiful mix rich in life. We checked out the cork trees first - large, ...

A travel blog entry from Faro by technotrekker
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... is back to Spain on an overnight train destined for San Sebastian and Basque country. Unfortunately I'll miss the game to see whether Portugal goes through to the World Cup Finals. However if all goes well I'll hear about it anyway and then catch up with ...

A travel blog entry from Porto by technotrekker
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This was our first major holiday with our one-year-old baby and I wasn't really up for it. My wife J was desperate for some sunshine at the tail end of the English winter and this made us look south. I had no desire to return to the Canary islands ...

A travel blog entry from Madiera by supertrampz
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On our last full day in Portugal, really the last full day of the European part of our holiday we headed to Guimaraes for a day trip. We started by attempting to see inside the Se (Cathedral) which is literally across the road from our apartment. Having ...

A travel blog entry from Guimarães by guykb
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As I mentioned on a previous post, we were keen to explore a bit out of the centre of Porto and were particularly interested to see what was at the mouth of the Douro. We had seen waves crashing when we had taken our river cruise so this raised our ...

A travel blog entry from Porto by guykb
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... you come into contact with some of the seedier aspects of life here. Spitting, for example, is a national pastime in Portugal but takes on Olympic proportions here. I keep looking for signs announcing competitions for public spitting. Longest spit, for ...

A travel blog entry from Porto by guykb
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... other time in my trip I would be laughing about it now. But I wasn't laughing. And then it all became clear. It was time to end it. I would finish out Portugal, end with a bang, and after eleven months on the road, see what the States had to offer...

A travel blog entry from Praia de Mira by bootsmade4wlkin
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Despite our eventual triumph we were quite off Lisbon and so decided to head down the coast to the Algarve. We took the bus to Faro which was very hot although it did stop for ice cream. We liked Faro. It's very pretty. We booked in at the youth hostel ...

A travel blog entry from Faro by jo
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... , apparently, but now it is all given over to sins of the flesh. They serve steak with egg on there ... that happens in Portugal, we don't know why. And we were very pleased with ourselves after that so we decided to head for a bar recommended by the Rough ...

A travel blog entry from Lisbon by jo
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... that can be spotted from many areas of the city. It was erected during the late 1940s to publicly thank God for sparing Portugal during WWII. An elevator carries visitors to the top for a spectacular view of Lisbon. The grounds of the castle made for a ...

A travel blog entry from Lisbon by audreyandjack
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The first priority for the day was to try out the pasterleria 5 metres from our front door. The Gomba café is full of locals and has fantastic pastries and cakes. More importantly, as we were to discover, it also has excellent coffee. The girls enjoyed ...

A travel blog entry from Lagos by guykb
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... World War. I hadn't really planned on coming here but after receiving a nice invitation to visit a new friend in southern Portugal, here I am. It's a great little town too, a grungy place perched at a confluence of two streams emptying into the Tagus ...

A travel blog entry from Lisbon by technotrekker
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... see how this one works out for us.   I write this entry from a campground outside of Salema, in the Algarve region of Portugal.  Truth be told - I don't even know anyone who's ever been here. Until one of you email and tell me you've been here ...

A travel blog entry from Salema by gr8escape
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