Friday - Lisbon hilites
June 21, 2024 in Portugal ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
Today we toured the hilights if Lisbon and walked our feet off - lots of cobble stone areas- old and new
Lisbon hilites
June 21, 2024 in Portugal ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
Sintra
June 22, 2024 in Portugal ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
Spent morning touring seaside resorts, Cascais and Estoril, then the afternoon in beautiful village of Sintra - a world heritage by Unesco - toured Palace built in 1400 - saw beautiful tiled room. TheRead more
Fatima
June 23, 2024 in Portugal ⋅ ☁️ 23 °C
On our way to board our riverboat, we spent 3 hours at Fatima- there was a mass going on so we couldn't go into basilica where the three shepherds are buried - disappointing- but we had a lovely lunchRead more
Our room
June 23, 2024 in Portugal ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
Porto streets
June 24, 2024 in Portugal ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
More pics of city of Porto
City of Porto
June 24, 2024 in Portugal ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
Toured Porto- went to the majestic stock market Palace- very posh - floors all wooden separately inlaid by hand two hundred years ago- Arabian deco
Wine tasting
June 24, 2024 in Portugal ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
Went to a winery and had port tasting - not for me - it is an acquired taste, - but was quite interesting
Mateus Palace- Regua,
June 25, 2024 in Portugal ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
Circa 1500 palace with same family still living there - in 30% of Palace with 70 % being museum - beautiful gardens - can only post 10 pics per footprint so will post more footprints to cover thisRead more
Mateus Palace- Reagus
June 25, 2024 in Portugal ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
Built in circa 1500 by the same family who still live there - 70% is a museum and the family lives in the other 30%- I can only post 10 pics per footprint sp pictures of the gardens will follow
More of Mateus
June 25, 2024 in Portugal ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
House and gardens
Mateus et al
June 25, 2024 in Portugal ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
Outside Mateus Palace
Douro Valley
June 25, 2024 in Portugal ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
Toured through wine country side with beautiful amazing views of vineyards
Odds and ends
June 26, 2024 in Portugal ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
Spain
Salamanca, Spain
June 26, 2024 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 24 °C
Arrived in Salamanca Spain - toured one of the oldest universities in the world , then the 11th century basilica- very beautiful structures
Spainet
June 26, 2024 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 26 °C
Et al
More of Salamanca
June 26, 2024 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 26 °C
Basillica
Ship et al
June 27, 2024 in Portugal ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
More of
June 27, 2024 in Portugal ⋅ ☁️ 29 °C
Barca d'alva et al
June 27, 2024 in Portugal ⋅ ☁️ 30 °C
Toured more of Douro valley vineyards I this area - went to another wine tasting- beautiful Vistas - pics do not do them justice
Etc
June 27, 2024 in Portugal ⋅ ⛅ 31 °C
Lamega, Portugal
June 28, 2024 in Portugal ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C
This country has so much beauty - the pictures do not do it justice - the vineyards in the Douro Valley are magnificent - have never seen anything like it, today we saw a spectacular bassillica fromRead more
More of lamega
June 28, 2024 in Portugal ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C
Gilmarais palace
June 28, 2024 in Portugal ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C
This morning toured city center of Porto,. Took a funicular ride up to top of city and shopped. This afternoon toured an old Palace still in use by the president









































































































































































































































































