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Carmen wanted to rent a car and drive to the Lagos ( Argarve)) region...I said sure as long as you drive...so off we went in our little Barina....14 Klms on the meter, brand new and GPS ...first to tackle the city driving.....scary..but we made it to the 25 April bridge....toll ticket collection...great... off we go...we asked the rental guy to put the destination for us in the GPS...we should have checked...he sent us to some beach in the back off woop woop..but the address he gave us was an empty block....ok...re-calculate....we needed a map of all the beaches we wanted to see...we ended up at a petrol station at the back of no where...the lady was lovely and the breakfast for two for 5 euros...she did tells us that time to our destination was two hours...ok at least it's on the same side of the country and road....off we go again....there are three lines in the bridge...Carmen wants to drive in the middle ...she gets told off by the guy in the van to move over..she only got told off once..and no beeps which is big for Portugal...since they beep every five minutes....he actually got his head at out the window
and screamed for her to get to the slow lane. LolWe get to a bigger petrol station on the freeway..while I am putting petrol Carmen is doing the drinks and map thing...yes we found a map....with all the beautiful beaches...Off we go....we program our first beach....we drive, drive and drive...all we see are farms, trees, mountains, landscape is green, brown...it seems like we are just driving around the country side..and someone told us a lie that there are beaches at the end of it...we keep driving we end up at a little country town with two buildings...WTF...re-calculate...oh this time I look at the GPS and the map..to make sure the GPS is not sending us to woop woop again...Yay...destination reached...we even get a trophy for it...it's a little town called -villa nova milfontes.The view is so pretty...the beaches are little but pretty...at first we thought the beach was on the other side....we thought great how the hell do we get there...we started exploring and found another beach at the end of that beach..there was a shack...it was a restaurant ...right next to the water....we decide to have lunch before we get lost again...it was BBQ Chicken (Portuguese), a lot better
that what we had in the city....we sat there for a while admiring the view...I went and tested the waters.,.it was cold water ...!Next !!! It seemed now the beaches were closer....not so many kms to drive...the next beach, zambujeira do mar, was also gorgeous with a little church on top of the hill ...off we go again...re program the next stop...we start driving through these little streets when we come to a dead end...stupid GPS ..why couldn't you tell us that...it's not so bad that we are locked in this street..the bad thing is we need to do a four or eight point turn in this street ...with everyone looking at us....lucky this nice man and lady help us get oh of there....how embarrassing lol..tourists...Next beach., Praia de arrifina, ..we are driving again through the country side...then what is that??? ? The round about has been blocked by a truck ...yes a huge truck decides to park it self between two exits while it asks for directions. I say to Carmen it's ok..our little car can make it....while I am making sure..she is right to get through...she is saying to me why didn't you take a photo...lol....we start to
climb up through all these winding roads....up up we go...up we go...we get to the top and looking down the hill, there is the beach....When we drive off to the next one...we see gypsies ...no no picture ...I find another beach before our destination, Praia de clerigo ...ok ...now time to go down the hills.....I see a really nice beach with a windmill...oops too late for Carmen to turn...oh we'll next...we keep driving down....we find the beach....but you need a four wheel drive....we decide to drive back home before it gets late..we have 300km before we reach the hotel....and before we reach Lisbon which is the scary bit of driving...with all the roundabouts, different one way streets and crazy cab drivers...we reached the hotel safely....the sites are beautiful but the driving can get boring as its all straight driving...so proud of Carmen...even though I offered to drive, she drove all the way there and back...even with the bugs on the windscreen...the bugs there stick to the windows...and visibility is poor..the only way of getting rid of them is through high pressured hoses which are used in the petrol stations. We had to stop at two of them...Although we never reached
the Argarve ..it was a fun day...The only problem we had was Carmen thought we flew out
at 9am..no it was
6am....we had to pack...and then have 4 hour sleep....lol..Goodbye Lisbon Portugal...it's been beautiful....you have been a memorable city....
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