This post is part of a series called Northern Portugal July 2018 West of Lisbon, and onto Porto We had planned to attend the Aga Khan’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations in Lisbon, and decide to go a few days earlier to check out some areas outside Lisbon that we had not been to previously. Our flight…
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This post is part of a series called Northern Portugal July 2018 After resting up from our drive from Lisbon to Porto, we drove into the older part of Porto and walked around a lot to check out this place. Breakfast was Pasteis de Nata and coffee. Pasteis de Nata is an ancient recipe passed…
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This post is part of a series called Northern Portugal July 2018 After Porto and Coimbra, we came back to Lisbon Portugal, and settled into our Airbnb apartment; which was a good sized one bedroom, fully equipped, in an old building, only 3 minutes’ walk from the central Cais do Sodre station, for connection to…
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This post is part of a series called Northern Portugal July 2018 This is the 2nd blogpost on Lisbon Portugal; the previous one is at City of 7 hills After my camera died, I had to figure out how to replace it for the remaining duration of our trip; which was a few more days…
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In July 2019, we decide to take a week and check out the Algarve region of southern Portugal. This is a well-known tourist destination, that we had gone to about 30 yrs ago, and had little recollection of it, except for 2 things: We had driven from Lisbon to Algarve, and our destination was Faro….
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