11th June 2019 Hi, Just a quick note to accompany the photos on the third part of our recent Portugese odyssey. We travelled from Evora to the Troia peninsula on 25th May and spent four full days there before returning on the fifth day to Manchester. Situated south of Lisbon the Troia peninsula is a huge finger of land which stick up just south of Setubal, which is a thirty minu...

May 29th 2019 Hi, Monday 20th May It was time to leave Lisbon and head out north east into the Alentejo region as planned. After picking up our hired car at the airport we headed for Marvao but stopped in Castelo de Vide en route. This area of Portugal seemed to be littered with castles atop the hills, with a town or settlement adjoining it. The castle is referred to back as far as the 13th Century and major building work took place in the 14th century. The...

28th May 2019 Hi, My brother Donald has recently retired from his role as headmaster at Dilworth School in Auckland and is over in the home country for three months. Leaving from Manchester with sister Rachel and brother in law Brian we caught a flight to Lisbon. From a previous blog you may recall that Donald and I visited Porto two years ago and very much enjoyed the Portugal ex...

20th July 2017 Hi, I flew out from Manchester on Thursday 7th July with Donald for my first visit to Portugal. Exciting to be visiting a new country. The flight to Porto takes about two and a half hours from Manchester. The temperature was in the low twenties when we arrived on Thursday night. It was overcast and that was not to change until the middl...