Portugal
Travel Blogs from Portugal
A day with 'We Hate Tourism Tours'
... did not stop people from going down to the ocean. Instead we stopped at the town of Cascais, this is the Saint Tropez of Portugal, although it does not have the mega yachts in its harbor. Here we walked around for a short while, before heading onwards. ...
Stairs!
... booked something in Lisboa, so we have quite a drive ahead. After breakfast we loaded the car and took of, heading out to Portugal. Around lunch time we were around the town of Castello Branco, so we left the highway and headed to the town. Here we ...
Sagres, Salema, Burgau and Praia da Luz.
Sagres, Cabo San Vicente, Salema, Burgau, Praia da Luz and ...
The Rain in Spain Sent Us Insane So We Left
... 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 ...
Wind, Stripey Buildings and Bakery Brawls
... 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 ...
Suprise, its Porto..
... Travelogue) (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 ...
Port for breakfast
... . 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 ...
Lisbon (Portugal not North Dakota!)
... 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 ...
Luxury in Evora
... 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 ...
Flying home
... . 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 ...
Pastries (and other goodies!) in Portugal
... 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 ...
Lisbon, Portugal
... in 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 ...
Going out with a Bang
... a 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 ...
Holidaying with baby
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 ...
Algarve adventures
... , 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 - ...
Day trip to Guimaraes
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 flagon of Porto
... 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 ...
Coimbra
... 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 ...
A visit to the beach
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 ...
The gritty side of Porto
... 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 ...
Enough is Enough
... 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 ...
Faro - city of Carlosesese
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 ...
Lisbon vs Jacqui and Jo -- round two
... , 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 ...
Portuguese plans...
... 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 ...
Lazing on the beach
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 ...

