Casa de Sao Tiago do Castelo
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From Porto to Lisbon
... computer to read about it, saw it had good reviews, and went back in. We didn't have very high expectations going in, and ended up pleasantly surprised.) It wasn't just a church, it is ruins of a monastery that had to be abandoned in the 14th century because of floods. The building was restored in the early 1900s, and then years later they found the cloisters in front. It ended up being really cool, and I'm glad ...
Peniche
Last day :( Lisa had requested another lie on the beach - so we had stayed the night in Quiaios Hotel, near Figueira da Foz which was right on the beach. We had dinner in the bar of the hotel that night (they were having a special of 5€/meal) and drank some of the local wine. The next morning after an eventful buffet breakfast, where Fine watched a woman with one normal arm and one stump, peel an orange and then wipe the orange juice off ...
Musings on the religious experience eg. Fatima
Stendhal said "God's excuse is he doesn't exist" I have been asked by the girls as to why I wanted to go to Fatima and why do I love to collect religious trinkets? Thinking about it here in this village square in Bahalta, where we sit drinking in the sunshine, a piazza which shares its space with a 500 year old monastery and where life carries on in it and around it as it has been for half a century or more. I do recognise in ...
A day in the sun.
After visiting the Monastery of Batalha (Constructed in fulfilment of a vow by King João to commemorate the victory over the Castilians at Aljubarrota (15 August 1385), the Dominican monastery of Batalha is one of the great masterpieces of Gothic art. The majority of the monumental complex dates from the reign of ...
Nazare
After leaving Ericeira we headed off to Nazare. Lovely fishing village. Not sure where the fishing boats were. It was so hot today, temperature at one stage was 38 degrees. After a ride in the acensora, a coffee and tarte de Nata we headed off to ...