Day 5: Before even leaving the hostel this morning we got to experience an interesting view outside of our hostel. There was some military parade going on down the main avenue which Ness noticed as she went out on the balcony for her after breaky cig. It wasn't particularly exciting, but it was completely unexpected and an interesting start to the day. We left the hostel shortly after with pretty much no plan at all. When we arrived last night we noticed a sign o...

Day 3: Today was mostly a travel day. We covered a decent number of kms from Lagos to Evora. Before leaving Lagos however we made sure to go back to our favourite little cafe and get another coffee milkshake. Only this time she was out of coffee flavoured ice cream, so we went with chocolate instead and had a iced mocha. Along the way to Evora we stopped at a small town called Aljezur which Ness had been told to check out by someone but we weren't entirely sure...

Day 1: It's the end of the first day of my second road trip and it was a good start. Unfortunately I was still feeling the effects of yesterday's hangover for a good part of the day, but I soldiered through. We had set our alarms for 7:30am this morning but it was more like 8:15 by the time we actually dragged ourselves out of bed. The reason for this was that we had booked the car from 9am. Good to get an early start though. That being said, by the time we were...

First stop in Portugal is Faro in the south. I'm here with Gabrielle and Ness. Maybe I should say something about my companions seeing as how I am going to be travelling with them a while longer (we have rented a car and will be spending 2 weeks driving to the north of Portugal). Gabrielle is kinda crazy, but in a good way. Full of energy and very outgoing. Definitely fun to travel with, though potentially exhausting at times. Ness is from England but hasn't actu...