The Office Is Closed
The Office Is Closed
It was time to head to the Douro Valley. A destination we’ve dreamed of since arriving in Portugal some weeks ago. Picturing lush green terraced vineyards, the river winding its…
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Ever since we watched the Timothy West & Prunella Scales trip down the Rio Douro (River of Gold) we have had Porto and the Douro Valley both UNESCO World Heritage…
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It was quite late in the day by the time we arrived in Aveiro. The Sat Nav had decided yet again to try to entertain herself by trying to send…
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On our way to the University city of Coimbra we decided to break the journey up and stop at Leiria for the night as it had a large free parking…
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Batalha was our last port of call in the monastic triangle with a visit to the stately Mosteiro da Batalha, another UNESCO world heritage site and a masterpiece of Gothic…
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It just happened to be the Easter weekend when we visited one of Portugal’s most magnificent religious sites, the Convento de Cristo and Templar castle of Tomar. As part of…
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We began our short trip around Portugal’s UNESCO world heritage Monastic ensemble of Alcobaca, Tomar and Batalha with a visit to Alcobaca. We parked Buzz in a nice free aire…
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A few months ago our motorhome tour of Portugal took us up the Atlantic shoreline of the Algarve. Having been completely entranced by the beauty of the beaches, craggy cliffs…
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Ever since we met Rui, the Portugese man with his Russian girlfriend in Monsaraz, we’d been looking forward to going to Obidos. We met him during at a wine tasting…
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After a couple of town visits we like to get back to the countryside and it’s so easy to do here in the expansive Alentejo region. Much as we love…
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