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Day 30: Last Day in Lisbon
On our last day, we opted to give priority to the reason why we travel: the food. We planned the day around eating, with a stop for a last look at the city and to enjoy the 30°C weather. We started our food adventure with cinnamon rolls at 📍Quest. While they didn’t beat the buns from Coimbra (see days 9…
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Day 29: More of Sintra
We went for the best-rated brunch we could find in the town of Sintra. We should have seen the result coming. As we established yesterday, Sintra is a day trip town for most people. The food scene is optimized to serve lunch near the sights. Breakfast is probably quite underserved. 📍Salus Brunch Garden is representative of that. Nothing we were…
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Day 28: Overnight in Sintra
Sintra is a town in the Greater Lisbon region, located a 40+ minute commuter train ride from Lisbon, towards the mountains. The town is renowned for its stunning architecture and cultural significance. Historically, it served as a strategic location during the Moorish occupation and later became a favoured summer retreat for Portuguese royalty and aristocrats. So it has the old…
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Day 27: Belém
Belém is a historic district in western Lisbon, Portugal. It served as a safe anchorage for traders and the departure point for early explorers like Vasco da Gama and was, for a time, the centre of Portugal’s maritime power. Today it’s home to two UNESCO World Heritage sites: the Jerónimos Monastery and the Belém Tower. Having already spent our religious…
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Day 26: Hello Lisbon
The majority of the day was spent driving to Lisbon. It’s a 3-hour drive from Olhão, and we’re not about to get up early to cram more visits in a day. We focus our FOMO on the planning stage of our vacations. Once we’re actually on vacation, we work at the most relaxed pace we can. Want to do five…
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Day 25: Rocha da Pena
Rocha da Pena is a protected natural landscape and prominent table mountain located in the Algarve, near the town of Salir. Rising to bout 479 meters above sea level, it is one of the tallest mountains in the region. It features a plateau roughly two kilometres long. At the top, there are two stone walls, possibly from the Iron Age,…
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Day 24: Barrier Island
We picked Olhão over Faro for two reasons. The food scene seemed more vibrant, and it’s right across the bay from sandbar islands that we wanted to explore. Last night put us at ease concerning the food. Today we got to see how right we were about the islands. We started our day at the only place that seemed to…
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Day 23: On the Way to Olhão
It’s a travel day. We’re taking the road toward Spain but stopping 50 kilometres before meeting the border in Olhão. We’re leaving from a costal town and going to another coastal town. If we were in a movie, we would be driving in a convertible along the coast with majestic vistas on both sides and a winding road following the…
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Day 22: Absolutely Nothing
We weren’t into doing anything today. We both felt like we needed to be out of contact with the world, listen to audiobooks and do absolutely nothing. We headed out to our brunch at 📍Black & White. We had pancakes, and Karine left with a cinnamon bun to go. We dropped the pastry off at home and headed to the…
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Day 21: A Long Long Beach
It’s not, per se, a beach day. Yes, we did go to the beach; yes, we did sit at a beach bar, but no, we did not sit on the beach. What we did was walk along the beach for a couple of hours. Our day started with pancakes and a first coffee at 📍Black & White. As we mentioned…
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