Blogs from Faro, Algarve, Portugal, Europe - page 4

Hey all! I made it safely to Faro. It was a boring day of travel. Waiting in the train station, on the train, cab to the bus station, waiting at the bus station and then on the bus. I got here just fine. Lots of time to sit. It wasn´t very conducive to napping though. I wrote in my travel journal and that was about it. I checked in at Faro, have a great room, it overlooks the sea...or whatever it is. Its called a seaview room! Needed a shower. You know how travel is...sometimes you just need to relax. I then took off for about 2 hours walking around the town. It is very cute. I definately like it. There are lots of old buildings, etc. Dad would like all the Christmas directions. There are ... read more

Portugal has been great - very relaxing. We decided not to go to Lisbon but instead spend our time in the Algarve, an area on the southern coast. It is quite beautiful. English is much more common here than in Spain. We found most places we did not have any difficulty with the language. We stayed in the city of Faro. This is where the airport is that we fly out of tonight. Thursday was a nice relaxing day. We spent the afternoon at the beach which is about 6km away, easily accessible by bus. The beach was great, however, I felt the water was about 15 degrees colder than I would have liked. Sherrie thought it was great, not cold at all. Yesterday (Friday) was very exciting. We headed by train to the town of ... read more

Meeting at 11, in Zuffo area, all happy to say good-bye to parents from the coach window... At last we started for this adventure, far away from Italy for 13 days!!! On the road for Milan-Malpensa, we laughed and joked, we listened to music and we had fun. When we arrived at the airport, for someone the anxiety started to grow; we waited still a bit of time before doing the check-in and later walked in the airport-shopping centre or to see the airstrip. Finally we got aboard the plane and in the take-off, someone held the arm of the fellow traveller and someone was quiet, but during the flight, nobody was scared. The landing didn't have problems, we got off the plane and went to collect our luggage, luckily there were all!!! 30 minutes later ... read more

On the bus from Seville to Faro, Jenny turned to me and said, "Sudie - why are we going to Faro?" "I don't know," I said. "Emily read a travelblog about it." Thus we ended up in Faro. Quite frankly, I'm still not sure why we made such a stop. The town was nice, yes . . . and it had a beach . . . about 20 minutes by bus from our hostel. But really there was nothing special about Faro. I guess I need to track down this travelblog Emily read and see what sounded so tempting. There is one thing that made Faro absolutely, 100 percent, hands-down worth the one night stop. Apparently there had been some sort of national band competition at the same time we were there. I have no ... read more

Well, I surprised Camille with a trip to Faro, Portugal, with the intentions of sitting on a different beach for a couple days. I normally sit on the beach in Alicante, so a change of pace and the opportunity to reunite with my ocean of the last 22 years, the Atlantic was irresistible. She was a bit cold, but I didn’t mind. I just hope she doesn’t find out that I’ve been cheating on her with the Mediterranean for the last three months. Anyway we to Madrid the night before on the 14th of March, almost a four hour train ride, but it wasn’t too bad. We arrived in Madrid just before midnight and had to find a place to stay along with carry around Camille’s suitcase (I had a backpack). After a couple failed ... read more