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Sintra Slideshow
Sintra
Travel Blogs from Sintra, Portugal
Cascais and Estoril
This entry is not yet complete. It will be updated within the next few days. The highlights were.... Bus tickets bus to Estoril walk along the foreshore walk to Cascais lunch - pizza another lighthouse - old and new find the bus station beer ...
Sintra este a cidade muito bonito!
... to Sintra and then back down the coast to Lisbon. First stop was the Palacio da Pena. As we drove up to Sintra, the mountain was covered in some pretty heavy rolling fog, which was pretty awesome. The palace was beautiful - I could have ...
Sintra - Quinta da Regaleira, Moors Castle
... and making my lunch roll! First of all I went to the metro station Restauradores as that was where I thought the train to Sintra left from, but then discovered that the line now went from the metro station by the Zoo - Jardim Zoologica. So back ...
castles everywhere
... and having heaps of fun, we went to visit Sintra for 1 day. Lots of catsle, magnificent architecture, totally different world, very expensive though. It was an excellent day, last for Ola in Portugal. She was going back home and I was travelling to ...
Fatima, Obidos, and Sintra, Portugal
... because it was like something out of Alice in Wonderland. :) Tomorrow it is into Lisbon for a few hours and then we drive down to the south of (Allie, the bottom of) Portugal in preparation for our return to Spain. I´m missing everyone...... ...
Smokey Joe
... I decided to go to the toy museum first, and then see what I felt like doing afterward - knowing it would unlikely be climbing a mountain. Sintra is a very small town so the whole Toy Museum was a bit of a crap shoot. Sure, the guide book said it was ...
More Castles, more Pastries
... leads there. The Castle of the Moors is centuries old, from the times of Islamic rule in Portugal. There is even a sweet green flag that says Sintra in Sanskrit. Actually there are tons of flags posted on this castle. There is the ...
Lisbona-Sintra 85km
... in modo particolare. Mangiamo splendidamente alla Casa de Avò e rimandiamo alla mattinata successiva un ulteriore tour di Sintra. Frasi del giorno: "O isto o isto" (O questo o questo) detta dalla addetta della mensa dell'Ostello a Fabio ...
Vejo o castelo de sintra da minha janela!
... disso. alguem já tinha visto um castelo moderno? o da pena foi construido em 1850 e seria a casa dos ultimos 3 reis de portugal. um palacio com aposentos pequenos? não exactamento victoriano ne. tem que se ver pelas fotos para ver como ele é ...
Sintra Real - Royal Sintra
... bus drive right by, must have been awfully exasperating. In other countries they might have put on additional service, but this is Portugal. Probably no one told the bus company that there was a big European championship this weekend. The hill up to the ...
Att cabba i Lissabon och en regnig promenad
... hur vi har det :) Resan gick jättebra och smidigt, förutom att vi blev en timme, nästan två, försenade i Frankfurt pga strejk i Portugal. Denna strejk vet vi inget mer om (strejkar hela landet?) och bryr vi oss heller inte om - vi kom fram till slut ...
Belem, Sintra, oh my!
... we were given the opportunity to find a place on our own to eat at, we found a cute little bakery that served all of Portugal's famous pastries. Most of us ordered, and then found out after trying the food what it really was. We sat in the park to eat ...
Knasigt slott med fantastisk utsikt
... pricka in superkasst matställe för att vi (Magnus) typ inte litade på fiskställena (som man självklart ska äta på här i Portugal) och fick in lite grillat kött med tråkiga pommes...hm...inte ok...men men man lär sig! Söt stad med fina kritvita ...
Sintra Castle Tour and Fatima Holy Tour
... shot of the sea and the castle from the top. I love this city soooo much! I think I want to retire in Portugal. Love the food, the sexy language, lovely people. Not sure why am I in Calgary when there is Lisboa!!!! ...
Sintra Train Station - 3pm
... now. Although a tourist trap - with narrow streets, postcards in the street, and people everywhere - I found an authentic bit of Sintra, where the busses don't stop. Popping into a greengrocer's to buy a nectarine and ask for directions, I found ...
Castles, forts and steps
... ) climb to royal tower and the keep walk to Palacio Nacional de Pena Parque da Pena Alta Cross Queens Throne duck castles drive down the hill soup for lunch Palacio Nacional De Sintra drinks on the deck tried to walk into park - no purple cow Chinese ...
All I want for Christmas is my 2 Front Teeth...
... so we went on an optional excursion to a couple of towns outside of Lisbon today after the Lisbon tour...one of them was Sintra the other sounded like Cous-Cous...anyway we took some pics, but I concentrated on annoying my daughter (Love Ya Stacey...I ...
King of the castle
... just old toys from around the world, what they're made of, how popular they were, and there was a whole floor dedicated to dolls! We wandered Sintra for a little bit more before we made our way back to the train station to start the ride back to ...
Palaces, Parliment, and Lectures
... minutes outside Lisbon in the mountains. It was nice to escape the chaos of Lisbon. In Sintra we toured two of the most famous palaces in Portugal, The National Palace and Pena Palace. The national palace was first built by the Moors around the ...
Portuguese or European?
... EU involves deep integration and has the power to coerce states to enforce policies. This means that member states, including Portugal, loses some of its sovereignty to the supranational government and its citizens could be governed by laws not made by ...
Day trip to Sintra
... hostel. There ended up being a huge group of us that went and we had a great time making new friends, enjoying our last night in Portugal. The next morning we had to get up super early for our 9am flight back home. Our flight quick, we made it safely to ...
