Our arrival back in Lisbon completed the loop of Portugal we’d begun more than two weeks earlier after landing in the early morning hours from Málaga. Portugal was a fabulous […]
Month: November 2021
Sintra and Palácio Nacional da Pena
Sintra sits on the western outskirts of Lisbon and is home to the spectacular Palácio Nacional da Pena, a Disneyland-esque castle constructed on the order of King Ferdinand in 1842. The […]
Soccer in Sintra
On Sunday we left the Douro to go to Sintra. It was a four hour drive to Sintra. We stayed there for 2 nights. We were in the car all […]
The Douro Valley
The drive from Nazaré to the Douro Valley was just over three hours and Coimbra – a beautiful city some describe as an Oxford type town – worked out to […]
Porto
Porto was an easy day trip from our digs in the Douro wine region of Portugal, a picturesque drive through UNESCO World Heritage terraces flanking the River Douro as it […]
The Old School House
On Thursday morning we all drove out to a little old school house that was converted into an AirBNB where we would be staying for three nights. It wasn’t even […]
Nazaré and the Monasteries of Leiria
Nazaré is very famous in the surfing world for the monstrous waves that pound its coastline a few times a year in the winter months. Both the male and female […]
Évora and Reguengos de Monsaraz
From The Algarve we had our sights set on Nazaré on Portugal’s central coast, but none of us had the appetite to drive the almost five hours between the two […]