Hotel Lusitania Parque
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La frontera
... neufs qui sentent la maçonnerie fraiche, de grandes villas, des routes noires de goudron neuf qui nous tirent vers le centre historique rues pavées, églises blanches, immeubles anciens de la splendeur passée .Fidèles à notre habitude, nous cherchons sans guide, en sillonnant les rues en moto un hôtel pour la nuit. Nous sommes dument équipé pour le camping mais ce soir encore, un ...
Pigging Out!!
... to Wikipedia, Mêda is a municipality in Portugal with a total area of 286.1 km2 (110 sq mi) and a total population of 6,000 inhabitants. The city of Mêda has a population of 2,004. It was promoted to city in December 2004. (Source: Wikipedia) Keeping this in mind, I couldn't help but think that Pai Penala would be little short of a ghost-town. I wasn't disappointed. It ...
Star-shaped fortress in granite landscape
The route gets less hilly after Guarda. Landscape is changing as-well. Many big rounded granite blocks are scattered around. We have two parts of the route this day which are displayed online but not in the paper maps. We risk it and profit from a brand new tarmac road.
Designed on military grounds ...
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 ...
Up to Portugal's top spot - El Torre
We can start the day with quite some rolling down. We enjoy the morning's cold breeze. Enjoy the olive tree spotted landscape. It's getting more hilly and upon the last ascent to Covilha also more crowded with vehicles. Many empty apartments "vende-se" along the road.
route link 58 km, 750 m altitude net
In prospect of a break day tomorrow we go shopping for some good wine (at Lidl). It is taking ...