Silver Coast: Circular coastal walk around Salir do Porto

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Our original plan was to visit the chocolate festival in Òbidos this morning; however, our slightly hungover house guest (my youngest) wasn’t really up to a half hour car journey, so we postponed until tomorrow and Harri and I went … Continued

Silver Coast: exploring Alcobaça for the first time

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It’s a rare thing for Harri and I to go off sight-seeing together; however, with the UNESCO World Heritage site of the Mosteiro de Santa Maria de Alcobaça just a twenty-minute drive north we couldn’t resist finding out what all … Continued

Central Portugal: Porto Novo to Lisbon

When Harri tried to recharge the iPad in our hotel room last night, the device had overheated and subsequently refused to switch back on. He’d used online mapping continually on this trip and had carefully plotted our route from Porto Novo to … Continued