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Travel Blogs from Faro, Portugal

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Algarve adventures, Faro, Portugal travel blog

Algarve adventures

A travel blog entry by technotrekker

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Faro is the capital of an extremely pleasant region in Portugal called 'The Algarve', which sits at the very southern tip of the country around 280km south of Lisbon. As mentioned previously I wasn't planning to head this far south but an offer from ...

Faro - city of Carlosesese, Faro, Portugal travel blog

Faro - city of Carlosesese

A travel blog entry by jo

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... met Carlos the First, the waiter who *loved* us. He made us delicious kebabs. The next day we were determined to explore Faro and possibly send people postcards about it. On the street we ran into Carlos the Second ... who later became known as Carlos ...

Faro and Portugal!, Faro, Portugal travel blog

Faro and Portugal!

A travel blog entry by meganandkevin

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Our final destination in Portugal was Faro, the capital of the Algarve.  We arrived on October 5, a national holiday and the place was a ghost town.  Only a handful of restaurants were open and barely a soul could be seen.  We did manage to ...

Faro ..heart of Algarve, Faro, Portugal travel blog

Faro ..heart of Algarve

A travel blog entry by pathenger

Flew to Faro but just stayed one night before heading to Seville. Nice beach town (but it was ...

Salty Foods, Faro, Portugal travel blog

Salty Foods

A travel blog entry by jamangie

Yes, food in Portugal is an incomparable improvement....... right down feckin delicious, let's put it that way...... but oh so salty...... so salty....... and the size of those portions...... half a portion would feed a family of four in most ...

Portugal!!, Faro, Portugal travel blog

Portugal!!

A travel blog entry by kristinj

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Well we are going to Portugal, so excited will tell you all about it...later, but enjoy the ...

Chapel of Bones, Faro, Portugal travel blog

Chapel of Bones

A travel blog entry by mezcnz

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Bussed to Faro, a small seaside town with not a hell of a lot really!! Our room had no window, but faked the appearance by having a curtain anyway... nothing like a little bit of closet sleeping!! Went for a swim at the beach/lagoon with our 1.60 euro ...

Not too far to Faro, Faro, Portugal travel blog

Not too far to Faro

A travel blog entry by arikandcharis

... so we booked a train in the right direction and got on board. Later that night we landed in the cute coastal town of Faro, Portugal.  We decided to spend the night rather than catch a night bus and arrive at the coast at midnight.  We ...

Some people speak 7 languages... we speak 1 1/2, Faro, Portugal travel blog

Some people speak 7 languages... we speak 1 1/2

A travel blog entry by jkeurotrip

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Alright Thank you everyone for your posts so far, it is nice to know there are people actually out there reading!!  (these gaps between paragraphs are specifically for scott)     So we are out of Brussels, Belgium, and we have ...

This only cost 34€ ?!?!?!?, Faro, Portugal travel blog

This only cost 34€ ?!?!?!?

A travel blog entry by eshortworldwide

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... airport. I managed to read an entire book (there was a lot of waiting around) before I finally arrived in Faro, a little town at the southern end of Portugal that I'd never heard of. I got a taxi from the airport, and thank God I did! The directions ...

The beginning, Faro, Portugal travel blog

The beginning

A travel blog entry by julesw83

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Portugal... there was two and now just me wandering free as a ...

Faro, Faro, Portugal travel blog

Faro

A travel blog entry by danielaube

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... pour quelques jours! Marta a 25 ans, elle étudie en nutrition et elle travaille au centre-d´achat de Faro. Elle est née au Portugal et a passé son adolescence au Mozambique en Afrique, ancienne colonie portugaise. Elle m´a fait découvrir le ...

Welcome to Belgium, Faro, Portugal travel blog

Welcome to Belgium

A travel blog entry by jkeurotrip

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HAHA. OKAY SO LOOKS LIKE THE IPOD TOUCH WANTS US TO YELL THE NEXT ENTRY SEEING AS IT IS STUCK ON CAPS LOCK. ANYWAYS, WE HAVE SAFELY ARRIVED IN BRUSSELS BELGIUM, AND BY THE LOOKS OF THINGS, THERE ARE A FEW PEOPLE WANTING MORE IN DEPTH DESCRIPTION. SO MAR ...

Just another stopover, Faro, Portugal travel blog

Just another stopover

A travel blog entry by pathenger

Back to Faro by bus which was a long trip ( 8 hours) but country side beautiful in southern Spain. Again just stayed on night in Faro before flying out ...

Soaking up the sun along the Algarve, Faro, Portugal travel blog

Soaking up the sun along the Algarve

A travel blog entry by sweetmochigirl

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... area, what more do you need but a swimsuit, right?! haha I have to say the Algarve, located on the south coast of Portugal, was a great place to take a relaxing-do nothing holiday. Definitely a good choice we made! Apart from heaps of R&R and sun to ...

Faro, Faro, Portugal travel blog

Faro

A travel blog entry by anywherebuthere

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... in the evening, they came from Lagos just up the road and they said that  Lagos was buzzing. I lucked out again. Faro seems like a good retirement village.The sun was shining though. I only got one Photo of Faro as my camera battery ...

Little fishing village, Faro, Portugal travel blog

Little fishing village

A travel blog entry by jcastellan

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Late this afternoon the bus reached Portugal and an hour later arrived in Faro. My first impression of Faro, was that it had a Naples feel to it. I was really hoping that I was wrong. Found my hotel, unfortunately I couldn't find a hostel on the Internet ...

Folk Festival, Faro, Portugal travel blog

Folk Festival

A travel blog entry by hastie

So after leaving Lisbon we cruised down to the bottom of Portugal to a place called faro. Nice little town has a heap of beaches and a beautiful little harbour area with restaurants and stuff. Oh buy the way every one christmas is now Feburary 2nd in ...

A closed restaurant and nice night lights..., Faro, Portugal travel blog

A closed restaurant and nice night lights...

A travel blog entry by clarf

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... for ages. It didn't go anywhere and we got more and more concerned. Finally I realised there was an hour time difference between Spain and Portugal (our clocks were still on Spain time of course) and that we were sitting on a 9:30 train at 8:30. So we got ...

Lazy days of Summer, Faro, Portugal travel blog

Lazy days of Summer

A travel blog entry by clandybar

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In August 2009 we had an amazing trip to Portugal with Andy´s family. We met up in the south of Portugal in the Algarve region for 7 days and stayed in a very nice villa. It was so great just to relax and enjoy the pool. We made it to the beach one day ...

Einddoel  eerste fase gehaald, Faro, Portugal travel blog

Einddoel eerste fase gehaald

A travel blog entry by psteerenberg

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... een internet cafe om een nieuwe entery te posten. . Vrijdag maken we de laatste sprong aan de westkust van Portugal. De windvoorspelling is eigenlijk tegen, maar nu de voorspellingen toch steeds niet uitgekomen zijn, en er geen hoge oceaandeining ...

The Algarve, Faro, Portugal travel blog

The Algarve

A travel blog entry by claude_and_iain

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... buildings nicely. The Algarve is a much slower pace to Madrid, but we are appreciative of the change. * * * Faro is a smallish town in the south of Portugal, which we have come to seeking to see a little bit of small town European life and catch ...

Faro, Faro, Portugal travel blog

Faro

A travel blog entry by harryandnorah

... at least dry. Just up the road was a magnificent road bridge over the 'Rio Gaudiana', we crossed it and were in Portugal. The search for a hotel amongst the south coast, holiday ghost towns continued with no luck and we eventually reached Faro, where ...

Train to Faro, Faro, Portugal travel blog

Train to Faro

A travel blog entry by elohim

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We don't complete our round trip back to Faro due to the dense traffic and little choice of alternative roads. We hence take the train back to Faro (4,85 EUR) transport of bikes has no additional ...

Faro, Faro, Portugal travel blog

Faro

A travel blog entry by fwice

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After 3 hours driving from the Lisbon airport we arrived in Faro. Let's wear flip flop and boardshorts and adopt the summer attitude ...

Waiting for Rentabike, Faro, Portugal travel blog

Waiting for Rentabike

A travel blog entry by elohim

... ) and have an inquiet night ahead of us (storm and noise from the airport). Next morning we are quickly done with Faro sightseeing and head for Megasport. That we had reserved 2 touring bikes has been forgotten but they could have been availed still. ...

Could Wake The Deaf, Faro, Portugal travel blog

Could Wake The Deaf

A travel blog entry by sandramorrow

This Episode has yet to be finalized and edited. Read at your own risk. This morning I woke up in hallway after a night of battling shouts from kids who appeared far too old to behaving as they were and an olypic level snore-athon staged by one of my ...

Bus adventures cerca Faro, Faro, Portugal travel blog

Bus adventures cerca Faro

A travel blog entry by sandramorrow

... or etirely in the future. Its your choice. ; ) May 22, 2007 1:51PM I write to you now from a bus stop in Faro, Portugal, after a regretably late start to my day. I awoke in the peaceful city of Faro, Portugal yesterday 4:30PM with a gasp ...

Quick stop, Faro, Portugal travel blog

Quick stop

A travel blog entry by ktchris

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... some other visitors to play with after we left. After that we made our way back to the car and off to Seville it was. Goodbye Portugal! I got to admit it is defiantly on the top of my list of countries I would like to revisit and spend more time in but ...

Portugal...3 words..wonderful friendly beautiful, Faro, Portugal travel blog

Portugal...3 words..wonderful friendly beautiful

A travel blog entry by europeinakombi

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... best tourist office on our trip).  Feeling up beat... we started to shake off the Spain (sorry Spanish friends.. but Portugal as you will read is a wonderful, friendly and beautiful place where so far....we have only ...

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