Blogs from Faro, Algarve, Portugal, Europe

2011 começa já com planos para uma viagem de sonho, à muito desejada e que acabou por ser uma decisão de última hora. Em Dezembro encontrei, enquanto divagava pela internet, um pedido de voluntários para um festival de curtas metragens em Tiznit, Marrocos. Inicialmente esta viagem estava apenas num registo onírico “porque tinha de trabalhar”, “porque não tinha ninguém com quem ir”, “porque deveria ficar muito acima das minhas possibilidades monetárias”, “porque…”, “porque…”. (Apenas) por curiosidade andei a pesquisar os preços de viagens Portugal-Marrocos e nem tive de procurar muito para encontrar uma verdadeira pechincha. Porto-Marrakesh-Porto por 30€! Quanto ao trabalho, facilmente podia faltar uma semana. E quanto a viajar sozinha, eu estou habituada a fazê-lo em solo português, quão diferente seria ir para Marrocos just by myself? ... read more

Up sticks again and headed for Cadiz. On the way decided that we were enjoying being on the road again so much that we would try and make Faro in Portugal. Had a good run through, some beautiful scenery and some boring flat land and arrived at the town of Fusal at about 2.30pm. Chose a site, met the local Brits and had a short walk along the quayside. The site is right in the middle of the town, on the quayside, lots to see & do. Mon 27th Dec Walk into town first thing, did some food shopping & found a pharmacy. Had a look at the local church and then returned to the van & mage lunch, burger & chips. Read my book for a while, had a doze & then walked out right ... read more

Yeah after 4 days of torrential rain it finally stopped which means it felt like we saw nothing at all of Lisbon, It gave us the impression that Lisbon was a horrible city. In continuing rain we checked out of the revolting hostel we were in which smelt of wet dog and who knows what else and went to a 2 star hotel which felt like real luxury. From there we were able to explore a 7 floor department store called Cortez Ingles where we went to the movies and saw “Life as we know it”. In Portugal the movies are’nt dubbed so they are all in English with Portugese sub titles. The movie provided light and comic entertainment and got us out of our room which was just what we needed. Next morning with the ... read more

By Kingfish March 7th 2010Portugal Trip Europe » Portugal » Algarve » Faro 011Hi guys. This is a test blog fofr our trip to portugal. I'm going to include some text and somre pictures. Actually, the pictures will be from a previous cruise that Pete,Renita, Cath & I took. Please let me know if you got this blog and if you had any problems with it or the link. I think ·I have the kinks weorked out. Don ... read more

Christmas break. Nearly 3 weeks of neither school nor work, I am now able to catch up on this blog, on all writings. The Puente was essentially my first predominately heterosexual road trip since family vacations. I learned a lot about my friends and also about myself. We left sometime around 2:30 in the afternoon. In the car were Izzy, Martin, Aaron, Aaron's friend Amy, and myself. We were heading to Aranjuez to meet up with Rachel and Thomas; and from there we would head south on the A-4 into Cordoba, our first stop on the trip. I chose to ride with Rachel and Thomas in the first stretch, even though I was technically pitching in €'s for the rental and gas for the other car. I enjoyed my time greatly with Rachel and Thomas. We ... read more

So Company have got me my flight from Lisbon to Lyon on the 16/12/2009. All i have to do is get the train to Lisbon and catch the flight. This is a 4 month photo shoot in the resort of Valmeinier (france). so watch this space :)... read more

The Algarve - September 18-19 It was a Metro trip to the bus station, where we took a coach. As we headed out of town we crossed the Vasco da Gama bridge (the longest bridge in Europe) which starts out like any bridge going up and being high above the estuary, but then you head down and you are only a small part of the way across. The remainder of the bridge feels like it is almost at the level of the river. I couldn't get a photo of it but it is worth looking it up it to see a photo. We were off to the region of Portugal called the Algarve, and we were staying in the town of Olhao. The local people here were really friendly, waving from the café seats as we ... read more

Faro, Portugal. Why there? What makes it worth visiting? Why would someone spend 3 hours and 40 minutes on a train to get there? To me, it made sense. The transatlantic sailing finished in Lisbon…..my 3rd time there. Well, it turns out that there were no discount airlines between Lisbon and London…or none that went at a decent time and arrived at a decent time at one of the London airports…..not to mention the fact that I had to get from a London airport down to Southampton cause I wanted to visit with Stuart and some other friends for a few days. Ah….Faro had a slew of discount airlines to the UK and even had one called FlyBE which flew from there direct into Southampton!!! Faro is pretty much in the center of the touristy Algarve ... read more

By the way in the nighttrain two nights ago from Irun to Lisbon I started to read Nighttrain to Lisbon. 2 million copies sold but I dont think many people read it in the nighttrain. Had a look at Faro today. Nice town to see in one day. Rather good old city still with walls around. Faro have been a tradecenter in ancient times, Greechs and Romans. Captured by the Moors in the 8th century and recaptured by Alphonse the 3rd in the 12th century. Distroyed by the english who took the library to Oxford and never gave it back like some other items of different countries they still have. Weather is o.k. approx 25 degrees but heaters are still outside the restaurants probably meaning that it have been still cold recently. Took a touristic tram ... read more