Portugal Travel Blogs

Monsaraz.
Jan 2, 2009 (19 photos)

Portugal..

Faial, Pico and Sao Jorge Island.
Sep 13, 2009

Faial, Pico and Sao Jorge Island.

Sagres, Salema, Burgau and Praia da Luz.
Jan 3, 2009 (20 photos)

Sagres, Cabo San Vicente, Salema, Burgau, Praia da Luz and Faro.

The Rain in Spain Sent Us Insane So We Left
Jun 26, 2007 (10 photos)

... 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
Jul 1, 2007 (7 photos)

... 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...

Lisbon, Portugal
Mar 4, 2008 (25 photos)

... 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, ...

Port for breakfast
Nov 1, 2007 (82 photos)

... . 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 ...

Pastries (and other goodies!) in Portugal
Jun 3, 2008 (153 photos)

... 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 ...

Lisbon (Portugal not North Dakota!)
Jul 17, 2006 (3 photos)

... 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 ...

Suprise, its Porto..
Sep 9, 2005 (4 photos)

... ) (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 ...

Luxury in Evora
Jul 18, 2006 (6 photos)

... 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 ...

Faro
Sep 25, 2006 (28 photos)

... 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. ...

Flying home
Aug 18, 2006

... . 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 ...

Sintra and Cascais
Nov 6, 2006 (27 photos)

... 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 ...

Going out with a Bang
Aug 17, 2006

... 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 ...

Lisbon
Feb 18, 2007

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Coimbra
Oct 1, 2007 (8 photos)

... 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 ...

Algarve adventures
Jul 1, 2006 (22 photos)

... 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 flagon of Porto
Jul 5, 2006 (17 photos)

... 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 ...

Holidaying with baby
Apr 9, 2007

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 ...

Day trip to Guimaraes
Jan 23, 2008 (10 photos)

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 visit to the beach
Jan 22, 2008 (6 photos)

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
Jan 20, 2008 (5 photos)

... 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
Aug 6, 2006

... 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...

Faro - city of Carlosesese
Jun 10, 2003 (6 photos)

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 ...

Lisbon vs Jacqui and Jo -- round two
Jun 15, 2003 (6 photos)

... , 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 ...

Lisbon
Oct 27, 2006 (53 photos)

... 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 ...

Lazing on the beach
Jan 15, 2008

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 ...

In and around Lisbon
Jun 29, 2006 (34 photos)

... 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 ...

Portuguese plans...
Apr 27, 2007 (17 photos)

... 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 ...