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…

We tend to chose our destinations by chance and very spontaneous – either we see a picture of a place we like, or we read something about an area that we fancy visiting. Well, we read about the Pulo do Lobo (wolf jump). Driving inland, on country roads, past a lot of stork nests !…

Arrifana is famous for its waves, and therefore well liked by surfers. We were more interested in the landscape … … and we were fascinated by the cliffs surrounding the beach ! The sea was very blue and clear! It reminded us of the flysch coast in the north of Spain. Watched by goats, we…