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Portugal Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Portugal
Wine to put Bacchus to shame
This is a top pick! ... Upstairs a terrace with more azulejos showed scenes from the collection of the grape harvest so popular in these parts of Portugal. Other pagan images included Bacchus riding on a sea monster escorted by small cherubs. We ...
Madeira Day 2
This is a top pick! During the previous evening, Ilona looked at me and said, I know you walk alot, but come on, lets see how good you are because tomorrow, straight after breakfast, we are walking up to the highest peak, over to the third highest and back again. Honestly, ...
Queria muito sangria, por favor.
This is a top pick! And oh, what a good decision that turned out to be. Ahhh, beautiful Lagos. We got the bus there (much quicker bus ride) and found a completely fantastic pensione and met up with five Australian girls from the hostel in Faro. After extensive ...
Lagos - a greek island in portugal?
This is a top pick! Before we arrived in Lago's we had this enchanting bus ride all the way there. Portugal has these pretty little villages all througout out these mountains and occassionally you see this very old bunch of buildings all wrecked and I couldnt help but ...
Walking around Lisbon
This is a top pick! When I woke up this first thing I did was check my phone to see f the baggage people had been trying to ring me. No such luck. I put back on the underwear that I had carefully hand washed the previous evening, despite being not quite dry and redressed in ...
Sleepy Little Ponta Delgada
This is a top pick! We arrived in the Azores sometime in the early morning. When we got off the Solstice at around 8:00 a.m. Ponta Delgada, the capital of the Azores, on the island of Sao Miguel was like a ghost town. By nine a restaurant beside the cathedral opened ...
Addicted to Port
This is a top pick! Porto is a city that flourished with its port wine trade since the 17th century. And that being the century of Baroque art, it's no surprise the city's main splendour lies in Baroque architecture. We see this in the dramatic curves of the facades and ...
loving it in lisboa
This is a top pick! ... empire into south america and asia... - huge cathedral....huge!!! - pastisse al nata; very special custard tarts, are available all over portugal, the best ones are in Belem, they simpy on of the best things we have ever eaten!!! - nice family feel, ...
Northern portugal a spectacular train ride ...
This is a top pick! ... the summer residence of the Kings of Portugal and is green, lush and mountaineous. The Pena Palace was the highlight of Portugal for Tonya. The multicoloured towers and domes reminded Paul of Disney World. Inside was a completely wacko collection of ...
Port
This is a top pick! ... than fifteen minutes !!! Ribeira Not often does RyanAir land at a proper international airport, and thankfully for Euro 2004, Portugal rebuilt the airport and laid a metro system down. It was cheap as well. In we went, grabbed our hotel and ...
Accommodation Anarchy - Part 2
This is a top pick! ... again, tomato still present in my ears and other places not to mention!! This time to Seville for a night and then onto Lisbon, Portugal. At this stage I am not really sure why we agreed to fly into Barcelona and then out of Lisbon. Sounded like a ...
Lisbon - argggh
This is a top pick! (C) Let's see - we did finally make it to Lisbon, right? I spent roughly the last 12 hours battling the absinthe fairy and wishing I was dead. This wish my dear partner Sara tried to accommodate by offering to kill me several ...
Back in Time
This is a top pick! ... much longer again to reach the Portugese border, which basically consisted of a huge bridge spanning the inlet between Spain and Portugal. No officials, no passports, absolute doddle - a bit different to the old days.. We stopped briefly in Tavira. ...
across the pond
This is a top pick! ... but it appears they did not turn out as a result. The Monastery took fifty years to complete and was built grand as Portugal was in the midst of vast wealth during this time from the India spice trade. I really enjoyed Lisbon - very laid ...
on the douro...by the sea
This is a top pick! lovin it here.....really unique place. Porto lines the banks of the douro river as it flows into the Atlantic. The old part of the city also clings to a few very steep hills, good exercise ambling around town. Definitely a different feel to Madrid, much ...
Loving Loule
This is a top pick! ... as the Dordogne, the firewood pile is a status symbol. The neater and squarer and of course the larger the better! Houses in Portugal have much smaller stocks but the one I made from the tree trimmings was designed to be admired!. Each time we checked ...
A weekend with the windy West Coast waves
This is a top pick! ... (ahem) we were packed and ready to leave for a weekend jaunt to the allegedly very lovely, rugged and windswept West Coast of Portugal. Except Brian wouldn't start as she had a flat battery, which was odd because it had only ten days since we had ...
Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
This is a top pick! ... quite a few different places, even had a stint in hospital, but what really stands out in my mind has been the reaquaintence with Portugal, so why stop when you are having fun. This weeks destination is the capital, a place we haven't been to in over ...
Bom Dia!
This is a top pick! ... ingress in the back windows is proving manageable, and when we have another sunny day we'll do some more sealing up. Portugal seems to be a really lovely country, and far more beautiful and varied than the bits of Spain we saw as we drove through ...
Music and medronho
This is a top pick! An overnight trip up into the Alentejo to see our previous host and friend Carol coincided with a performance of Appallachian music by Phil from Oz and Eric from Estonia. The newly formed Alvorada string duo caused a sensation at the local ...
Before the Walk
This is a top pick! ... people arrived in Santiago, but only 125000 walked from the France/Spain starting point. The next most popular was to walk from Portugal, and with only 10000 people arriving last year, it seemed like the place to be. The next point that slightly bothered ...
Horsing around
This is a top pick! We've gotten very behind on our blog! Mainly due to lack of internet access and working very hard ;-) So, to catch up.... Alex had been around horses a lot when she was younger so was actually looking forward to a couple of weeks on a small ...
Trading trad skills
This is a top pick! ... excited and signed up immediately for two weeks to help prepare the land. On our way up to the project, which is near Portugal's capital Lisboa, we stopped for a night near the beach at Melides. We witnessed some wonderful churning waves (West Coast ...
Lisbon, Portugal
This is a top pick! Lisbon is SO mellow compared to South America. I'm back to using Portugeuse again, it's getting confusing. But I am only here for two days and I can put all the Spanish and Portugese behind. Lisbon is a very small city, easily walkable if you don't ...
Madeira, Day 1
This is a top pick! ... said Funchal. I looked at Ilona and said Madeira? Way cool !!! Once landed, we grabbed a car and headed to Machico. A little bit of Portugal on an old volcanic island. It was nice and didn't take long to see, so we took some snaps and headed over towards ...
Reflexoes
This is a top pick! Unsurprisingly, the recession isn't helping Portugal. Developments have been abandonned and ring roads are half built. There are unfinished houses and the new brickwork of hotels is left exposed, rapidly decaying. We were last here two years ago and ...
Fun pants - all is much better now.
This is a top pick! I used to have a "proper job". The thing that people plan as a "career". The sort that parents can be proud of, that earned good money, required a suit and qualifications that meant letters after my name. That sort of stuff. Unfortunately it was ...
Beach bums
This is a top pick! ... and Adidas (probably knock offs), and an extraordinary amount of slippers and flat caps! Piracy laws are obviously more relaxed in Portugal, and we could easily have picked up a dodgy copy of Avatar if we hadn't been bothered about the no-doubt awful ...
Padaria heaven!
This is a top pick! Lovely beach. Friendly locals. Fabulous fresh bread. One fisherman on the way over the dunes to the beach struck up a "conversation" with me. We chatted about the weather. He thought it was bad. I was wearing shorts. Actions speak ...
Ancient engravings in a beautiful valley
This is a top pick! Paleolithic engravings were found fairly recently in a valley in the north of Portugal and they've been taking visitors in by jeep for 12 years. There's no other way to see the rare engravings, and so we rang them up on the spur of the moment to see if we ...