Los otros Iberianos: Photos 21 to 38

by anna and david

Portugal, the slither of land blocked from the rest of Europe by Spain, having held out against Spanish dominance many times, is a land as diverse as any I have come across, amazing for a nation traversable within a week!

We got the fast train to Seville and hired a car there to spend 12 days making our way through Portugal from south to north, finishing back in Spain in Galicia.

First stop was a relaxing weekend in Carvoeiro, in the Algarve, with Phil and Graham, a couple of ex-LEK colleagues, Phil's sister and boyfriend, Jo and Alex, and two of their friends, Steph and Mats. The weather was HOT, the sky CLEAR, the pool awesomely close at the back of the house, the sea freezing, the BBQ sardines divine, and the nights long. We spent the weekend lazing, eating and drinking, the boys pulling a couple of all nighters in a row (aided by a few bottles of Bombay Sapphire and the final couple of days of the the Olympics - cracking weekend). It was a sensational weekend all round.

Seeing the others off back to London, we drove through the countryside

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