Aparthotel Quinta Dos Avelanais
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La frontera
Cette frontière ressemble à une vraie frontière, après les étendues désertiques à l'approche de la ligne, cette terre qui devient sèche comme un paysage mexicain, seules les plantations d'oliviers rappellent qu'on est au sud de l Europe. Les anciens bâtiments des douanes sont encore là imposants et froids et on a une pensée pour ces millions d'émigrants qui chaque été sont revenus au ...
Portuguese Snow
The last Friday in February, Tiago and I drove up to get the rest of my stuff from O Barco. It's a 6 hour drive and we arrived at 3am. By 5pm on Saturday, we were on our way to Serra da Estrela to lift the anxious gloom cloud from my head! Covilhã is the jumping point for all kinds of adventures in the Serra da Estrela mountain range in central Portugal. Torre is the highest point in the country besides Pico in the Azores, but I say that ...
Pigging Out!!
My first day in Portugal started and ended quite quickly - I landed in Porto at around 4:30PM, spent thirty minutes convincing Portuguese customs officers that I was indeed an international MBA student and not armed with empty bottles to pilfer vino from the Douro Valley. The taxi driver who drove me to Matosinhos was quite chatty, and even gave me his business card after I'd paid him - not for future business alone, as he explained, but ...
Star-shaped fortress in granite landscape
... has a very interesting geometric star-shape. With national and EU money the old town has been fully restored up to any detail - like the Monsanto fortress.
Residencial A Muralha is outside the old town. We can practice our Spanish on the landlady.
Bacalhao (cod) is a common ...
Rolling down again
We are choosing a more relaxing route for today (i.e. not via Manteigas).
The trip commences with a very enjoyable ride downhills.
On our instead-of-breakfast galao the pub's daughter is trying some of her English on us. I use this occasion and ask her why Portugese don't use the plenty of olive wood for wooden spoons and other kitchen equipment. She responded that they rather burn olive wood during cold ...
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