"Thought and thought about where to go today, and figured I might as well take in one of the sights around Leiria. Therefore that´s where I am again tonight. Oh well, I pushed back ..."
"Cool 12century castle (convento de christo) overlooking the town and built by the Knights Templer. contains a chapel used for various knighting and burial ceremonies which was late ..."
"The only reason we dropped into Tomar for a night was because I had heard that the Knight's Templar from the Da Vinci Code story was here. We actually had a fantastic little stay. ..."
"This place was the central head qusrters of the Knights Templar in southern Europe. This is where the head knights of the Crusades planned their strategies in order to kick the Moo ..."
"From Lisbon we headed out north. The land was covered in the bright green of vineyards - here tamed, trellised and weeded - and postcard pretty tumbledown crofts and cottages. The ..."
" We decided to travel to Fatima the night before .We took off very early the next morning around 6 o'clock.We walked from our hotel to the subway station. The air was s ..."
"We got to Tomar last night at about 8pm after another hurl-tastic bus ride up and down steep hills and around very tight turns. The bus even went down a very narrow and twisted one ..."
"We were driving north to Tomar where the Knights of Templar lived in austerity. As it turned out, I much preferred the tiny white town we passed through called Obidos. The sunny da ..."
Tomar, Portugal
