I meant to get a quick "blog" posted several weeks ago when we returned from our trip to Portugal....but time has just slipped away. So......better late than never. Following are some of the pictures from our trip........
Amy’s sister and husband (Barbara and Lance) were with us during the first 10 days of the trip and we spent the first few days in the town of Porto visiting Port wine distilleries and seeing the sights of the old city.
When we left Porto, we drove to our rented (400 year old) house along the Douro River and spent a week visiting small towns (our favorite was Amarante), old churches, vineyards, a world heritage Archeological Park (Vale Do Coa) filled with ancient rock art near the Portugal/Spanish border, and Portugal’s largest outdoor market in Barcelos.
After 10 days of exploring northern Portugal, Barbara and Lance left us and Amy and I started a slow meandering trip southward to finally end up in Lisbon 2 weeks later. During our travels southward we visited old Roman ruins (Conimbriga), the second oldest university in Europe (Coimbra), old monasteries, old churches, former castles of the aristocracy, old forts (built by the Romans and others built by the Moors), Fatima, the castle of the Knights Templar in Tomar, the beautiful Portugal coastline (our favorite area was near San Pedro de Moel), and finally Lisbon.
It was a wonderful trip but as always…..it was good to get home and be with family and friends.
Love to everyone in our families!!!!!!
Greg and Amy
2 comments:
Incredible Pictures!
The one of the 2 of you on the beach looks like a post card.
The one of Amy checking out the pottery is so REAL.
The one of the town, taken from the lower edge of it is "A Thousand Words".
You need to start sending some of these to National Geographic, SI!
How cool that you get to spend enough time in a country to really get the "Taste" of it.
WELCOME BACK!
MoonRaka
Awesome pictures! Especially the one of the Douro River and on the beach!
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