Pensao Miramar Leiria

We were going to head to Lisbon but decided to stop in Nazare first. Nazare is a pretty ocean town that is very busy in the summer with tourists and beach goers. We arrived to a slightly overcast day and an empty beach. We stopped at a small restaurant for lunch and got some yummy soup (again) and seafood before making ...

Arrived after a short uneventful journey. Campsite similar. Weather changeable.

Tourist sites do not always live up to the flowery language used in the brochures eg. "Musicological Nucleus of the Salt" turned out to be a Musee de Sel. We did not go.

The local beauty spots, like every where else, that we did go to were covered with ingrained litter.
We are moving on tomorrow.

... who appeared in 1916. Lúcia described her vision of Mary as "more brilliant than the sun, shedding rays of light clearer and stronger than a crystal glass filled with the most sparkling water and pierced by the burning rays of the sun."
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http://www.sacred-destinations .com/portugal/fatima-shrine-of-our-lady -of-fatima

... was the miracle of the sun.

Two of the three children didn't live very long after that. They died in the Spanish flu epidemic.

After walking around the chapel and all, we went for lunch in a hotel. The lunch was salad, mackerel with rice, and fruit dessert. I ate a lot, mixing the salad with the very salty mackerel. A few ladies on my table didn't eat the mackerel.... complaining that ...

... tour????? Trying to get pictures of tour people...... gotta be sneaky about

okay gotta get ready for the fandango show!

Donna ate duck last night,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,nasty nasty nasty I had pasta with salsa sauce yummmm gotta try it when i get home

... in fact, and the library has a unique means of controlling them - a colony of bats live in the building and come out at night to feed. The librarian has to cover the tables with cloths before closing, and removes them next morning, to protect the ancient wood from bat poo! Like all old uni's it has its own bizarre customs. Instead of halls of residence the students live in communal houses called ...

We had our longest journey -should have been 7 hrs but turned out to be 10 after the highway was closed. We had lunch in Salamanca and I want to go back. Superb architecture and one of the oldest universities in Europe with signs of enlightened learning on every corner. We shared an amazing dinner of local fare ...

Day 5 – 26/12/08

COIMBRA-FIGUEIRA DA FOZ-NAZARE

We moved our luggage out & kept it at the reception. Then we set out on foot for the Coimbra University. It was a steep climb uphill lined by pretty shops selling famous Portuguese painted tiles among other artefacts around the cobbles streets. The huge University complex is 700 yrs old & has many arms like Medicine, Law, Zoology ...

We took a relaxation day when we arrived and headed to the beach, laid out went shopping and completed our day by making our own pasta dinner and drinking some Spanish Beer. The next day we headed into Fatima, where one of the greatest events of the 20'Th century took place. The Mother of God appeared to three children to bring the message of the gospel back to a world that was slipping away from it. The story began when three ...

... with a courtier being naughty and all the other courtiers became very jealous so he painted a ceiling with 96 magpies each with a sign saying ´no harm done´. Quinta Da Regaleira was a treat, a grand finale for the day. This is where the Adams´Family must have come forthere Europena summer holiday. It is a huge mansion on a few acres of land full of plenty of weird stuff - Ex ...