Lagos
Travel Blogs from Lagos, Portugal
A Vacation From the Vacation
... hangover cure or the struggle of surfing is at least great distraction. We spent the entire day on the west coast of Portugal, alternating between attempting to surf and sprawling on the beach. It was quite likely the beginning and end of my surfing ...
Burn's Night
A visit to Salema brought us an interesting insight into bringing home the catch. We watched as the larger fishing boat came close to shore and a smaller boat went out to meet it and bring in the catch of the day. The catch was brought to shore and ...
Lagos Cont.
LOVING lagos! Itºs exactly how I remember it.. Weºve been on the beach every day, finally getting a little tanned!! Tuesday was a BIG day.. Starting Monday night at midnight, it was the Rising Cockºs 6th birthday. We celebrated by having 24 hours of ...
Murder aboard the SS Carefree
12 people aboard a yacht invited by Sir Cliff himself found themselves all under suspicion for the murder of Jose Ferreras the deceased captain of the ship. Love affairs and entanglements seemed to be the key but as the story unfolded of crooks and ...
2 weeks!
... a 2 hour bus from Faro to Lagos which is to the West. The bus ride was stormy - rain and thunder and lightning. When we arrived in Lagos, it had stopped raining, which was good for the walk up and down the hills to get to our guesthouse. We had a bit of ...
Meet up with Britany and Nacho in lagos
Took a bus from lisboa to lagos where we met friends Britany and nacho from spain. Got a hostlel, but really a hotel, when to dinner and then drink, danced and clubed it up. beach camping for the rest of the ...
LOTS OF WALKING HERE
... before). Tonight is a free night, so either head back to some of the bars, grab some dinner or relax. Whatever you choose, Lagos will leave a lasting impression and is sure to leave you smiling. HOTEL CENTRAL LOCATION - WALK CITY SREETS PARTY ...
Valentine Special
Our last day today; what a perfect day; to be woken up by the man I love in a land of sunshine; in fact the very country where he proposed to me three years ago. So today is special indeed although sad because we are saying goodbye to some lovely ...
boat trip to grottoes
Boating through the grottoes This was a really good value trip only 10Euros for nearly an hours worth of boating in and out the grottoes and along the coastline. After going down 129 steps we came to a rather precarious landing stage where we managed to ...
I need help
I recently returned from a beautiful vacation with my girlfriend in Lagos. As a symbol of our commitment, we purchased a pair of brown coconut rings in the main square. There were hundreds of them and they were 1-2 euros. I broke mine the other day and ...
May 27/28: Beaches, beaches in Lagos, Portugal
After training 14 hours from Madrid, I finally got to Lagos in Portugal. Heard lots of good things from fellow backpackers in previous hostels about this beach town and it really seemed like a good idea to chill-lax on a beach after my self-diagnosed ...
Arrival In Lagos
... us reverse into our slip. Angel of Rio was only two slips away and he quickly fetched us a couple of beers. In Lagos we discovered that many boats were occupied this time of year and there was much English being spoken: sailors from the UK ...
favourite beaches
Found some great beaches today, Albandeira with it's walk through caves to even more remote beaches, but we needed to be careful as the sea could quickly come in and cut us off and there's no way up these crumbly cliffs. One called Marinha with ...
The bus from hell
... the trip ahead. The bus to Seville takes about 4 hours and drops us at the XXXX bus station. Our bus to Lagos in Portugal leaves from the XXXX bus station which is on the other side of town. We find our way out onto the ...
LAGOS and SAGRES
... then headed out to the most southern point of Europe, it used to be thought of as the end of the world. Tried some traditional Portugal candy - chocolate, almond and fig - hated it, tasted like it was full of sand. Then we just headed back to the hotel. ...
Lagos
Lagos é uma cidade portuguesa no Distrito de Faro, região e subregião do Algarve, sede de concelho, com cerca de 28,890 habitantes no município. A cidade em si tem uma população de aproximadamente 19,000 pessoas. Localiza-se no Barlavento, a zona ...
Our holiday in Lagos
The black hole of the world - no Portugese here, all Irish, French, Poms and Aussies who come for a week and stay their entire lives It is easy to see why too, I would as well if I had a choice. Nice weather all year round, beautiful beaches and water, ...
Sagres to Lagos, 27 miles
... taste buds with the spices of India in Salema...and our systems! Must take 2 hour beached whale siesta on the white sands of Portugal! We follow the Ecovia trail most of the way into Lagos...leap frogging our new German "touron" friends. They had a better ...
DiscoverGranada - Lagos!!
Lagos, Portugal. Words cannot describe the overwhelming beauty I experienced while present in this unbelievable city. .. The first day of our trip (through the program DiscoverGranada) we left Granada at 6am. We arrived in Lagos around 12:30 and only an ...
Portugal: Round 2
Went to Portugal for the weekend with my roommate. Enjoyed time on the beach and the last of the summer sun. Beautiful place. Would go back anytime. ...
Lagos
Travelling east along the coast, Lagos was next on the map, so we grabbed some lunch there and wandered along the promenade. The weather was sunny, but the English tourists were enough to put us off staying there for too ...
Lagos
... travel. I´ve been staying with hosts for free in different parts of the world, so far in New York, Andalucía and now Portugal. when i first stumbled upon couchsurfing, i thot wow this is amazing just think how much money i will save. but i have ...
2 for 1 cocktails for €3.50
Had a big buffet breakie to get us going and then had a swim in their indoor pool. There's lots of beautiful beaches in Lagos and a few down the road from us so we went for a walk to the lighthouse and viewing point. It was overcaste and just started to ...
loving the idea of free pouring drinks
ola again, wow... what can i say, lagos is amazing... just as everyone says. we are staying at pacheco´s guesthouse so we have our own room and its a pretty cool set up. the owner visits every morning however no one stays there so its pretty much our own ...
Day 51
Wednesday was a right off Nikki, Amanda, Ella and myself spent the day in front of the TV watching movies and felling like death from the night before. Tiff and terra spent the day at the beach relaxing and trying to recover from the flu they had picked ...

