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Day 6- Porto and Fatima
... and white, and the design is chic.
We ordered the goat stew for our main meal. The meat was juicy and tender, and was falling off of the bone and the sauce was thick and delicious, and full of aromatic spices. For dessert, we ordered the ice-cream with hot fudge sauce, buttery toasted pecans and fluffy whipped cream.
We sat in the flower garden at the Santa Maria, and stared up at the stars and into the dark night. Our last night in Portugal had been a ...
Fatima - the Miracle of the 20th Century
Today, after a fairly early start from Salamanca, we headed straight for the Portuguese frontier. Our next stop would be the Basilica of Fatima. When we were at school, we grew up on the stories of the apparition of Our Lady to three young peasant children in a small village in Portugal in 1917. We were most interested in the miracle of Fatima due to the fact that the oldest of these three children was still ...
EURO RAIL Adventure - Fatima
... day stay ended up lasting five days as we loved the area. Most importantly, we were able to visit the exact location where Our Lady appeared before the three children. It was a powerful pilgrimage.
While there we also drove west to the coastline of Portugal. Their coastline has some of the most ...
Found Paradise in Peniche!
... and for hot showers. The part that wasn't
worth it was the cold water only in the showers.
Anyway, wild (free) camping in Peniche more than makes up for all that. Saw a campground down the road a ways packed with more Campers than we cared to encounter so kept on driving round the Peniche peninsula. Pulled over at a beach across from the Super Marche, to pick up a few stock items, and had a chat with a French ...
How big & intricate should we make the church??
... road was the correct choice. Consequently, there were a few such roundabouts in which we made multiple laps to review the choices one more time. Any "towny" watching would have known immediately that their roundabout had trapped yet another tourist!
The goals for our driving adventure were the towns of Alcobaca and Batalha. The monastery and cloisters at Alcobaca were huge, rambling, and ...



