Birds, Barns & Farms!

We had to get up before sunrise to walk to Faro airport to get Bob and Louis off to Cork and I wanted to arrange where to meet Bob on his return in just over two days and as always in Portugal, the sunrise is stunning… I waved goodbye to the boys and then it […]

Friends and Family Fun- Part 2

After Sid and Linda left Bob and I had 2 days in the apartment before we were joined by Louis for 5 days. We had negotiated with Jose to take the apartment for an extra week as we weren’t sure where louis would sleep in the van or if he would be warm enough. The […]

Friends and Family – Part 1

It was with great excitement that we arrived in Praia de Rocha at our apartment for what turned out 2 weeks. We had booked Jose’s apartment on Air BNB for a week to have a little break from the van and share it with friends Linda and Sid from Dorset. Jose met us at the […]

Filling In

After we dropped Nicole and Srul at the station we had 4 nights before we were meeting up with friends Linda and Sid from Dorset down on the Algarve coast.   Our first stop was a surf beach just south of Sines. We’d passed it before and knew we could park up for free for […]

Family Antics

I have been a little home sick these past few weeks as I’m missing family and friends, so it was with great excitement when we drove to Grandola train station to collect my sister Nicole and her husband Srul. We usually spend NYE together but this year they were in Lisbon and it was too […]

New Year Wash Out

Bob and I decided that we would spend the New Year in a nice little resort town called Mila Nova de Milfontes. This town is in the middle of the beautiful Alentejo region at the mouth of the Mira River which was once a busy port but now it is a very popular holiday destination […]

Steps Back in Time – part 2

After Evora as we were so close we decided to venture further into rural Portugal and visit the beautiful medieval village perched high up on a hill right on the border with Spain called Montsaraz. The Aire was situated with one of the best views in Portugal and it was less than 50 minutes from […]

Steps Back in Time

After more rain forecast we decided it was time to venture inland as the weather looked better and we could seek out some of the pretty rural villages of Portugal. We travelled about 100km east to Constancia a village that has is steeped in history for a few reasons due to its proximity to two […]

Christmas in Portugal

We spent Christmas in Foz do Arelho – a nice town next to a huge calm lagoon that opens into the sea but with a huge stretch of beach that stretched for miles before you got to the sea. This place is very popular for water sports in the summer and it had a large […]

Beach Hopping

After leaving Braga and hopefully the rain we headed for the Atlantic coast for a taste of surf, sand and sun and as we made our way down this very beautiful and wild coastline we beach hopped en-route. The first 3 nights were at a campsite that was still open in a small resort town called […]