Miramar Sul Hotel Nazare

... sea. In the grey mist there was an air of prehistoric mystery.<br> When the weather cleared and we walked the 10 miles around the peninsula three islands appeared as well as lots of housing and factories. We now know what the smell is - fish salting and sardine canning! We should have recognised the smell as it pervades every super market. Salt fish seems to be the staple diet and we have even ...

Fatima<br>On the 13th of each month from May to October 1917, the Virgin Mary is said to have appeared to three shepherd children - Lúcia dos Santos (age 10) and her cousins Jacinta (age 7) and Francisco Marto (age 9) - in the fields outside the village of Aljustrel near Fatima. The children later said that her coming had been preceded by an "angel of peace ...

Fatima - where the lady of Fatima appeared to 3 children! It was an amazing place because of the story happened in early 20th century. It sounds so real.. so I did some research on it after I returned to the US. <br><br>So it was back in 1917 - May 13. The first apparition. That year every 13th the lady appeared to the three children. In October 13, 70K people appeared in front of the Olive Tree and ...

In the morning we went to Obidos, an old castle/city. There was a medieval festival the day before (just ended the day before or we would have seen people dressed in Medieval clothings!). Because of the end of the festival, we couldn't really go anywhere. So we ended up just climbing up a wall, took ...

... tour????? Trying to get pictures of tour people...... gotta be sneaky about<br><br>okay gotta get ready for the fandango show!<br><br>Donna ate duck last night,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,nasty nasty nasty I had pasta with salsa sauce yummmm gotta try it when i get home<br><br><br><br>

The next day we picked up our rental car and headed for the coast. We stopped off at the Casa de Ribeira winery for our best visit to a winery yet &#8211; a terrific friendly host, a 400+ year old building, a great selection of local snacks for lunch &#8211; delivered by the mother of our host and of course great wine. It wasn't so much of a wine tasting as it was "Let&#8217;s open several bottles and drink what until you are finished."<br><br>And though we could have continued sitting and ...

... corner with one side facing the beach across the main street &amp; other side facing the well-lit Sitio hill. There was a lively square just on the doorstep of the hotel lined with resturants having sitting tables on the square itself.<br><br>We searched for an Indian restaurant as directed by the hotel receptionist but found none. Therefore, we retired to our room &amp; had some lovely bhel with sandwiches.

The town of Oliveier Do Hospital is so slow that when we went to pick up our laundry that was supposed to be completed by 10:00am, it was still dripping wet and we had a bus to catch. We had to put the wet laundry in the bee bag and drag it to the bus station. We caught a bus to the beach town of Nazare a couple of hours drive West on the Atlantic coast of Portugal where the European beach holiday culture was in full swing. We dumped our wet bee bag laundry in a dryer and ...

... flag out because the water was too dangerous to swim in. The second day looked like it was going to be the same as the first but once the rain started it didn´t stop all day long until late that night. We took a trolly up the side of the hill to another town called Sitio. The view from that town was breath taking; looking down onto the beach and the town. A lot of tourist buses stop in this town so there was a lot of touisty shops open and ...

Al mattino presto facciamo un giro per Peniche, che con questa luce mostra la sua parte migliore. Ci spingiamo lungo il molo e diamo un'occhiata alla fortezza. Su indicazioni dell'albergatore, ci dirigiamo verso la spiaggia di Baleal, che si trova in direzione nord. Ha una bella spiaggia di sabbia fina, ha il fascino di quei posti che hanno il mare ai due lati. Il paesino, ha diversi scorci interessanti. Da li si ha una bella prospettiva della spiaggia che si ...