A Travel Blog
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
Well Lagos is a beach resort town after all. We didn’t really loaf but it was a slower paced day which started off with breakfast in the hotel. Apparently breakfasts are commonly included when staying at Portuguese hotels – not so in Spain. And it was an OK breakfast – a couple of cereals, a … Read more
We were not looking forward to our trip to Portugal – though we were looking forward to Portugal itself – because: it would be the earliest start of our trip; we were told there’d be no reserved seats on the bus so we’d have to jostle like (and with) the Spanish for our seats; and … Read more