Rose and Ron Krumpos in Portugal

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Portugal

Superb paella at an oceanside restaurant in Estoril

We made one trip to Portugal, visiting Lisbon, Sintra, Cascais, and Estoril, an oceanside resort town where we had superb paella de mariscos...chock-full of Atlantic seafood. We remembered the delicious flavors for years afterwards (a rarity). After a luscious roast pork dinner in Lisbon, we attended a very dull Portuguese vaudeville show. Our host hotel was the (Four Seasons) Ritz.

Sintra is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, with storybook castles, palaces and estates set among lush mountains. Our small hotel in Cascais had not returned our laundry and we were ready to leave. In the basement, Rose found Ron's undershirts hung over radiators. An English woman guest chose that hotel because there were no cars with U.K. plates in the parking lot. Many Britons spend a month in Spain and Portugal...their cars shipped by auto ferry to Gibraltar. We had some rain and gray skies on our trip and the Portuguese seemed melancholy.

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