Beiras

Mid life crisis

Welcome to mine and Daves adventures through Europe. As we spend a hard year slogging it out in London to enjoy a long vacation through Europe.

This is my blog on my trip to Portugal

Sunday 24 June - Wednesday 27 June 2007 We're in a town called Costa Nova, between Porto and Lisbon. It's a weird little place, absolutely packed with day trippers on Sunday when we arrived, now totally empty. All the buildings in the main street are ...

It was sort of the last thing that I needed to do, a final test of what I could do. And I wanted to do it. I'd been sitting on various beaches for over a month worrying about what I was going to do with my life, unable to make decisions about what to ...

Coimbra has a very rich and romantic history.  It is the birthplace of 6 Kings, has one of Europe's oldest Universities, and has a healthy supply of beautiful architecture and wide open green spaces.  It is on the Mondego River and is ...