Our last day in Portugal we spent in the Parque Natural de Montesinho. We didn’t regret it one minute – we loved it there. First we had a look at Bragança by daylight: The old part of the town is completely within the defense wall ! Lots of narrow streets, interesting murals, and a cute…

Burgos is calling ! We are slowly pressed for time … Therefore we decide to drive towards the Spanish border. We’ll visit Portugal again 🙂 Lots of stork nests on pylons and in trees ! We noticed an interesting way of spraying concrete, to protect the street from falling rocks ! Driving overland … We…

Bandeira in the „Mountains of bon voyage“ , with a good view: We found a waterfall without water. But because there was no water to fall, it wasn’t a fall, but simply a rock 😉 The eucalyptus trees gave off a lovely smell. We saw plenty of butterflies and flowers! Nobody else was around… Murtinheira…

Kim sent us a link of a webcam, where you could see the Praia do Norte, and our camper van, too ;-). In case anybody ever wants to have a look at the big waves: https://beachcam.meo.pt/livecams/praia-do-norte/ Down by the beach a pig was roaming around, and frogs croaked… Of course we wanted to see the…

The view from Praia da Polvoeira was just as great the following morning ! In Sitio, the old part of Nazaré: It lies high above the sea. Walking to the Forte de São Miguel Arcanjo. This fort is originally from the 16 century, and there is a little museum devoted partly to surfing. The Interpretation…

The trouble with getting up late is that you miss out on certain things, like a market where they start packing up at lunchtime… We slept with a view, then drove through a dune landscape to the market in Pataias. In Pataias we then met up with Kim, from the Belgium Twisted Freestyle Stunt Team….

We spent the night at Constância, on our way to the coast again. Our route must look quite erratic to an outsider – there is one main reason for that: we didn’t prepare, but tend to decide on very short notice where to go next. At the beginning of our journey (along the Mediterranean coast)…

Our place for the night was at a very picturesque lake: The dam is nearly a hundred years old ! There were hundreds of baby oak trees … … and we saw a lot of storks again ! We liked the scenery with its gorse and stones ! Looking for a menhir, driving through fantastic…

An eventful day… We started off at the barrier lake „barragem de Alqueva“. A couple of clear messages 😉 Some out-of-the-car photos… At last some vines – and other impressions … The stone heaps are marble! The next stop was in Estremoz. We walked up to the castle. A restaurant in a former jail, and…

We spent the night at the shore of the Tapada Grande. The village Minas de São Domingos turned out to be quite nice: We saw somebody taking his donkey for a ride… Iron used to be mined here: Now the lake is toxic. The colours of the rocks are fantastic! An old lady showed us…