Hotel Estalagem Senhora Da Guia Cascais

... into this dessert a few minutes ago.

With all this talk of food and pastries, you'd think we'd both be busting our britches but truth be known -- my jeans are fitting a bit looser and we both feel justified with the tremendous amount of distance and strenuous walking we have been doing -- up and down steep streets while gripping the cobblestone surfaces.

We haven't yet made our plans for tomorrow. The Fado Museum ...

... telling me how much they like it there, and now I know why! I went with two girls who are in the same program as me, one of which I hadn't met before! Luckily we all got along and we had a good time.

So, we arrived Friday morning and spent the first day in Lisbon. Since Lisbon is the capital of Portugal, I was expecting a big, busy capital city. However, I was pleasantly surprised when I found quite the opposite! My first ...

Hey Guys! Sorry for the lack of updates, haven't had time to go anywhere until Easter week. I took my parents to Portugal, Lisbon, Sintra, Cascais, Porto (next ...

Lisbon is built on several hills - some say 7 hills, comparable to the Eternal City, but the city faces the Tagus River (whereas the Tiber cuts through Rome and the 7 hills surround the main part of the city). The local citizens obviously enjoy the panoramic views that can be ...

... of women on each corner of the coach, one for each season of the year. The detail and symbolism in the coaches amazed me. There were three of a five-part set commissioned by King Henry XIII that had huge bronze sculptures on the fronts that symbolized the wealth of the king and his lands. These coaches were only used once, to impress the Pope. Once, while Christina was telling some elaborate story about one of the coaches, Gabriel pulled me aside and sang Mexico's happy birthday song to me ...

... buses for that day to the next town I needed to visit, so I would have to spend the night in Alcobaça. On a closer inspection it turned out that it was not easy at all to find a place to sleep there. That is completely beyond my understanding, as I have found plenty of hostels in much smaller towns with no really big attractives with ease, so according to my logic there should be some in this reasonably-sized town with a grand monument just elected a Portuguese ...

... liggen in de olie volgens onze pilot. Maar dat valt mee, via grote schepen komen we achter in de haven waar een hele marina ligt met zeer veel jachten, dit wordt dus onze thuishaven in Lissabon. 'sAvonds gaan we met de bemanning van "it is magic" naar de bovenstad voor een avondje Fado, uiteindelijk lukt dat en het wordt een prima nacht. Lissabon is een wereldstad, maar ook heel gezellig vooral in de oude boven stad waar honderden mensen opstraat een gezellige sfeer maken. Er zijn ...

... is very impressive with some remarkable architecture, lovely little windy streets, particularly in the Moorish area and great views from the Castello. Yesterday we met our friends John and Andi who are joining us for the trip to the Algarve. We depart tomorrow for Sines on the West coast and then round Cape StVincent on Thursday or Friday and hope to arrive in Lagos on the ALgarve on Friday lunchtime.

... for us the wind died and we were caught in a frenzy of vessels taking advantage and streaming into the med. We dodged the Europe to Africa high speed ferries which crossed our paths at hard tangents and had a fleet of smaller tramp cargo boats accompany us as the Rock of Gibraltar passed to our left and the Rif Mountains of Morocco to our right. Coming some more to Port we laid course for the eastern side of Ibiza, leaving the dolphins that act as sentinels to Europe, sniffing the ...

We did the impossible and made it from Marida to Evora (Portugal) on a sunday. It was a mission. We got sent to Badajoz on the border only to be told that there were no trains! So our options were to catch a 3am train or take the bus............ We took the bus. Evora was quiet and pretty so we stayed two nights. The hostel had loads of rolls and jam and coffee so Kev was pretty happy. It took us a while to realise that Portugal has a different daylight savings to Spain and ...