A Travel Blog
We did feel a little guilty at swanning into Santiago de Compostela relatively, given our various lurgies, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed without the dust of the camino on our shoes – but not so guilty that we weren’t happy to be there! Cathedral Santiago de Compostela The main business of the morning was to visit the … Read more
This post should also be a short one as we spent half the day on the bus from Porto to Santiago de Compostela. Our tour group was happy to discover that we first had the morning in Porto to explore it a little more, having only had a half day the day before, as we’d … Read more
After yesterday’s mammoth post, we’ll try to keep this a bit shorter. The travel gods frowned slightly on us for the trip to Porto when a highway accident slowed our exit from Lisbon. Hopefully it wasn’t a bad one … And in the end we didn’t arrive too late into Porto. As our rooms weren’t … Read more
WARNING: Long post for a long day! Just look at the pictures if you like! Our second day in Lisbon, a free day meaning nothing was organised, was somewhat disappointing, not so much for what we did do but for what we didn’t. We made some strategic, in retrospect, mistakes, and so missed one sight … Read more
Once again the travel gods shone kindly upon us and our bus trip from Lagos to Lisbon went so smoothly that we arrived earlier than scheduled. We are so impressed with transport in Spain and Portugal. However, in Portugal so far, Internet access has been more flakey and limited to our hotel foyers in Lagos … Read more