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Travel Blogs from Ferreira de Aves
Day 4- Evora, Castelo de Vide, Belmonte and Viseu
... past as we drove to Castelo de Vide. We saw quaint little house in small, roadside villages, lush green pastures, grazing cattle, sheep and pigs, fruit orchards and thousands of towering trees before finally arriving at our destination. Oh, how I loved exploring the picturesque town of Castelo de Vide, with its Jewish Quarter filled with old, whitewashed buildings, and the modern part crammed with shops, houses, cafes, and family run ...
Il faut Viseu entre les 2 yeux
Vous reprendrez bien une portion de Nationale.
Euh non sans façon , je crois même qu'on va sortir.
Bruno a fait un burn sur une ligne blanche en voulant se débarrasser d'un furieux dans une berline noire, Alexandre a failli terminer comme jambon de pays entre deux tranches de camion et Xtof était tellement concentré pour sa survie qu'il n'a même pas vu les bataillons de putes ...
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 mountain as you drove closer to the top. The snow on top was more soft ice than anything you could build a snowman out of, but the people there sure were trying. Everyone was dressed in their winter’s warmest even though the only chance you’d have of getting cold was if you picked up the snow/ice and placed it directly inside the snow pants they were all wearing. The ski lift was only open for fun, to ride from one point to ...
Duoro Valley...wow!
... third and most wonderful, the owning family always tries to have a family member dine with the guests. João, whose grandparents bought and farmed the land, is now an electrical engineer at one of the Duoro’s hydroelectric dams. We talked about many, many interesting topics until late in the evening, and we finally let João go home.
The next morning we headed to nearby Pinhao (say “peen-YOW”) to further explore the ...