The Office Is Closed
The Office Is Closed
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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Having discovered Buzz could not stay overnight at Marvao we looked for somewhere close, deciding on Castelo de Vide. We had intended visiting anyway and as it turned out the…
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High up on a rocky plateau within the Serra de San Mamede natural park sits the tiny town of Marvao. Home to just 1,000 residents and surrounded by a 17th…
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We were on our way to Mertola in Buzz after our night by the Barragem do Alqueva (dam) but felt that it would be wrong to miss Moura along the…
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Driving Buzz across country off the beaten track is always more pleasant than battling our way along the main roads so we took the shorter but in time terms longer…
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We could easily have spent another day or two in Lisbon but with 2 days of grey, possibly wet and miserable weather forecast we decided to move on. We’d never…
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Reluctantly leaving the Algarve behind, the next region, Alentejo, beckoned. Having seen some stunning coastal scenery already we thought we were leaving it all behind but then we arrived at…
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After Cabo De Sao Vicente we turned our eyes north and the wilder less developed Costa Vicentina or the western Atlantic coast. This is virtually all natural park (parque natural…
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