View from our apartment front door

Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough(Michael Jackson) - Cruisin' the circuit to Nazare and Alcobaca and home

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April 12th 2016
What a difference a good night’s sleep makes and because our plans for the day mean a short tour of the immediate area with visits to Nazare and Alcobaca we enjoyed some extra time in bed catching up on rest. Our first port of call was Nazare which meant a drive down through the hill villages and back over the coastal plain to the coast. Nazare is essentially in two parts, that on the coast ... read more

Europe » Portugal » Central » Caldas da Rainha

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Following its heyday as a world power during the 15th and 16th centuries, Portugal lost much of its wealth and status with the destruction of Lisbon in a 1755 earthquake, occupation during the Napoleonic Wars, and the independence in 1822 of Brazil a... ... read more