Blogs from Portugal, Europe - page 159

Travel Blog – France #3 So I have been avoiding writing in the blog because I promised the next blog entry would be about my Spain/Portugal trip. Hmmm remind me not to do that again; I just end up not writing at all if I feel like I HAVE to write about something in particular. Well I am still going to try about the trip and I will add a few more as well. The commentary will not be as good 2 months later but MEH its my blog I can do what I want. Portugal Lisbon- even though it took us an hour to find (after asking a tired cranky me asking about 15 people who had no idea what I was on about because I can’t speak Portuguese) our hostel was the best. Friendly ... read more

Last Thursday November 18 until Friday the 19 I ventured to Lisbon, Portugal...for the night. I went with my friend Stephanie. We met in the airport, this time there was plenty of to get to the airport. Luckily I brought some of my work so I could get it done. But anyways, our flight was at 6:15, and its an hour and a half flight, but with the time difference I was in Portugal by 6:30. We had to go through a custom check, and I was sure to ask about getting my passport stamped but unfortunately they don't do that from Spain. So we worked our way through the airport to figure out how to catch a bus to the hostel. We found the "aerobus" and hoped on and it took us downtown to where ... read more

We never really planned on going to Portugal, but after our transportation problems in France, we didn’t end up spending as much time there as we thought… and its much warmer down south than up in northern Europe, so we decided to go check it out! It turned out to be a very good decision, as the 2 places we visited in Portugal turned out to be some of our favourites so far. Mainly because of the hostels. Both were AWESOME! Our first stop was at Yes! Hostel in Lisbon. The hostel was just lovely and included all of the things we like in a hostel.. good bunks (wooden, meaning secure and not squeaky), large free breakfast (which included eggs! EGGS! That’s a first), great kitchen, and really helpful hostel staff. Pedro, who worked the front ... read more

HI all Well we've been in Portugal for over 3 weeks now, here's were we've been so far. Thursday 14th October Our first stop was just over the border at a site in Caminha and as the name suggests it is on the banks of the Minha river, from the empty beach we looked north across the estuary and back into Spain from where we had just come, it was literally a stones throw away. The site was run by a company called Orbitur who run around 20 sites along the coast of Portugal, more details to come on them later, the site was to a decent standard and next to the beach. We spent 2 days here, again on the beach and in the sea and having the locals watch us thinking are they stupid ... read more

We flew in from Barcelona to Lisbon airport, mid morning on a Tuesday. A reasonably brief 2 hour flight we were probably the only two tourists in the midst of lots of business men and women - all obviously flying in from Spain to Portugal for work. We hopped the airport shuttle and headed into the centre of Lisbon. We were sad to leave Spain but happy to get to yet another interesting port of call. This was our first time in Portugal for both of us but not our first attempt at trying to get there. Earlier in the year, the Icelandic Volcano 'Eyjafjallajokull' (try and say that over and over) had stopped us from spending a long awaited weekend in Lisbon, instead we both had to go to work on the Monday when we ... read more