Blogs from Lagos, Algarve, Portugal, Europe - page 9

Lisbon (Oeiras) - Sines - Sagres - Lagos - LATE BREAKING NEWS We tied up in Oeiras Marina, smack bang next to a boat called Solitude, a very large and beautiful looking Hanse 54. Small Nest was a couple of boats away and, as usual, saw a few other boats we had shared marinas with since we struck Portugal, a few of them being British and Northern European Yachts heading south to make the Canary Islands for the start of the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers which leaves from Las Palmas on the island of Grand Canarias for the 2800 mile crossing of the Atlantic to St Lucia in the Caribbean. We had been talking to Willem and Haike about their arrangements of doing the A.R.C and making their way through the Panama and across the Pacific ... read more

Lagos…whew!....What a wacky crazy week! I must admit I wasn’t planning to go to Portugal but when every second person you meet is saying.. go to Lagos!... go to Lagos… its hard to ignore. So long story short ‘I went’ and it was loads of fun. Since being there I reckon I’ve told another 20 people to go and about half already have. Basically Lagos is the poor’s man’s Ibiza. It’s a massive party town down in the Algarve in the south of Portugal located right on a beautiful beach. Unfortunately however, the tourist population is about 70% Aussies’ which is a bit frustrating, especially if you’ve travelled half way around the world to get away from them in the first place. In fact, it’s the only place I’ve been where you regularly hear the words.. ... read more

I don’t know if I have a severe writers block, or if its because I haven’t had very much time to myself the last couple of weeks, but my blog is lacking. I’m sorry. I will try to revive it and remember what has gone on in the last couple weeks. Primero, the weekend before last, was my very own first road trip across Europe. It sounds grand, and I am pretty ecstatic about it, but what really happened was that my friend Megan (who came to stay for a couple weeks to learn the ropes of traveling Europe) and I rented a car. My first time renting a car! And in a foreign country! And all the details told to me completely in Spanish! And completely under my name (and her credit card… good ... read more

Well....... I do not know where to begin! Portugal has been a great chance to throw all the rules out the window, leave the sites behind and drink, party and sit on the beach. I can't remember the last time I had a holiday like this but it was much needed. Kelly (an Aussie teacher I work with at Bannockburn Primary) and we planned to fly into Lisbon and see where life took us. The Algarves were seriously on our minds. So we headed to Lisbon and stayed in an awesome boutique hostel called the Lisbon Lounge. This hostel was much more like a hotel with ultra modern decor and very clean rooms. We had no plans to stay in Lisbon for long so the following morning we headed for some on the run site seeing ... read more

A Proposal in Portugal Who would have thought that I was going to get such a huge surprise on our one week holiday in Portugal? Well it was obviously on the cards, but a lovely surprise to be proposed to on a beautiful beach in Lagos. And yes the answer was defiantly YES!!!!!!!!!! We started our adventure in Lisbon on a city tour bus, the bus took us to all the must see attractions. Our favourite being a castle (Torre de Belem) on the shore line. It was fun climbing the narrow, crowded staircase and finding a beautiful view at the top. We saw some amazing statues and architecture and I enjoyed walking over the draw bridge to get into the castle. The city streets were decorated with tiles with pretty decorations; some of the houses ... read more