Travels with Fufu, our motorhome
Saturday 26th April 2025 Today, we returned to Lisbon to take in a little more of the sights and sounds. On the way across the river, we saw two cruise liners, one of which, the "Norwegian Viva", we were able to see reasonably clearly and later also saw it leaving: The "Norwegian Viva" cruise liner, …
Friday 25th April 2025 We chose to use the tram and ferry to reach Lisbon from our camping park-up. This enabled us to have a good look around on the way there, as we crossed the Tagus River. The ferry terminus is just opposite Lisbon Time Out Market, which is a combination of a produce …
Thursday 24th April 2025 Today was really about the journey further north. We plan to spend a couple of nights near to Lisbon, so we are heading to an area just south of Portugal's capital with a view to travelling in for the day tomorrow. Our first choice of site, was unfortunately closed, so we …
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Wednesday 23rd April 2025 We had spent the night on a village motorhome park-up, at Odeceixe, which was fine. It cost 12€ including electricity and other services. The main problem we had was in getting to the site as the main N120 road was closed just outside the village and the diversion signs were to …
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Tuesday 22nd April 2025 Today, we visited the extreme south western point of Portugal, Sagres Fortress, which is also billed as "The start of Europe", but before that, we went to the more western point of Cabo de São Vicente and its Lighthouse. Effectively, these two points make up the "Lands End" of Portugal. The …
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Monday 21st April 2025 Heading further west, on our way to spending the night near Portimão, we made our way to the coast, to take a look at the famous Algarve cliffs, caves and coves near Carvoeiro. It was very difficult to find somewhere to park with a motorhome, but we did finally manage it, …
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Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th April 2025 On Saturday, we chose to have a cycle ride down as far as we could go, to the south eastern-most point of Portugal, then we cycled on to Monte Gordo, a resort town with a fine beach, about 5 Km away, which also has a fishing industry. Vila …
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Friday 18th April 2025 After another wander around the town centre, meeting up with Jeeves, Michelle and Layla, then along to the lighthouse, I cycled to Castro Marim, about 5 Km away, to hopefully take some photographs of the flamingos that feed near there. Vila Real de Santo António: Around the town centre and in …
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Thursday 17th April 2025 We have headed south again today, reaching the Algarve, the southern coast of Portugal. We are staying in the small town of Vila Real de Santo António, which is right in the bottom right-hand corner of the country. Spain is in sight from our pitch across the river Gaudiana. We are …
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Wednesday 16th April 2025 Heading further south, we called in at the small, medieval town of Mértola with its castle and narrow cobbled streets. There seems to be an abundance of this type of settlement down this eastern side of Portugal. Access to the town is via this high-level bridge over the Guadiana River. Located …
"See-u-Later" 