Portel & Moura

We were up at 6:30am and we had both had quite a good nights sleep. We left our park up at Zoomarine just before 9am and I’d left the sat nav to use the toll roads and soon after leaving we picked up the A22 and then the A2 northbound, it cost us around €11 to cover 100 miles on the tolled motorway and we arrived at our first stop of the day, Portel, at 11am.
After a quick brunch we took a walk into town and then up to the castle.
Before we got to the castle we had to go into the interpretation centre which gave us the history of the castle and at the end of the timeline it said the castle was to be restored but this had only started in 2023 so unfortunately we could only walk around the outside of the structure.
After the castle we headed further up the hill to a derelict building which turned out to be an old flour mill. It was a fascinating structure and even the old millstone was left at the bottom of the mill.
Our original plan was to spend the night in Portel but once again we had peaked really early and it was only 1:30pm so we decided to move on to a place I had seen on park4night.
Moura beach is a newly built area 10 miles outside of Moura town and it is built around the reservoir. It has a boating lake, a large cafe, and 2 swimming lakes, one shallow for children and a deeper one for adults. We arrived there at 2:15pm with blue skies and warm sunshine and it was beautiful. The first thing I did was go swimming in the lake. It was debatable on whether it was warmer than the pool at the Portugal house but it was very enjoyable.
Once I was dressed we spent the rest of the afternoon sitting in Wanda watching boats and waiting for the sunset.
At 5pm we drove round to the top of the reservoir to take some photos where there were giant letters that say “ On A Clear Say You Can See Forever” it was a great sign and a nice sunset.Read more