Travels with Fufu, our motorhome
Sunday 4th May 2025 Today, after wishing our motorhoming buddies, Jeeves, Michelle and their cockapoo, Layla, a safe journey, we parted company at Ponte de Lima, as they took a more direct route back towards Santander for the ferry. We have moved further north and back to the coast, leaving Portugal for Spain. Perhaps future …
Saturday 3rd May 2025 Heading further north again today, we called at Bom Jesus do Monte en-route to our stop-over at Ponte de Lima, driving at times through heavy thunderstorm rainfall. Sanctuary of Bom Jesus do Monte: This is a Roman Catholic religious site which is built on a hill, near to the city of …
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Friday 2nd May 2025 We have travelled further north today, mostly on motorways, to the small and ancient town of Guimarães which is another UNESCO World Heritage Site. They have a castle (as you might expect), a basilica and a Duke's Palace. View from St Peter's Basilica in the city centre. We first visited the …
Tuesday 29th April 2025 Heading generally north-east ish, towards our overnight location at Tomar, we called in at a couple of other places, but first, before leaving Batalha we explored the Monastery. Batalha Monastery: We had walked around the outside last evening, but as it was closed we returned this morning, to see inside: This …
Monday 28th April 2025 After our trip up the coast yesterday, we have today travelled further north and inland to visit a couple of small but picturesque towns, Óbidos and Alcobaça. There was, however, a bit of a problem. Today, there has been a complete power outage, which apparently has affected much of both Spain and …
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 …
Continue reading "Portugal Trip 17: Odeceixe Beach, Cabo Sardão, and Vila Nova de Milfontes."
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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"See-u-Later" 