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After having this place recommended and of course the trusty rough guide, got to Coimbra in the heat of the midday sun and after much searching found a safe and decent enough parking place, you wouldn´t believe how much importance is placed on such things when your car is your house.
The rough guide spoke of terrible hill climbs to get up to the university but we´ve definitely done much worse and it´s a pretty little place to walk through, slightly marred by lefty/anarchic student grafitti though. The uni is set at the top of a hill with great views of the city (or is it s***ty?) but the place itself is not really worth the climb or the visit to be honest, and we left for the coast pretty quickly once again scratching our heads at the description of this place cursing the Rough Guide for having lead us astray.
Starting to formulate a brief in sueing the makers of the Rough Guide for their blatant lies about places in Portugal, and thinking that the Portugese Ministry of Tourism are involved in this somehow.
Reached Peniche by early arvo and headed to Baleal, a gorgeous beach, well really two beaches separated by a little causeway, very busy with locals but worth it. We slept in a car park across the road from the beach. As is expected in line with this trip, "one of Portugal´s most consistent stretch of coastline" is dead flat and no amount of kum-ba-yahs was going to change that. So it was sand castles and shell collecting on the beach agenda.
Car parks here are not like the concrete multi-storey ones of home, we were the only car there with our table and chairs set up for dinner overlooking the sea and watching a cracking sunset - piccy included in the photo section (Libon and Around).
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