After a fun holiday on Madeira in 2014, we did an Autumn road trip around Portugal in 2016. Visited Porto, Douro Valley, Fatima, Algarve coast, Lisbon, Sintra, Obidos and Nazare with a rented car. Loved it. Especially the beaches in the south and the vineyards in the north.
We spent his year´s AUTUMN HOLIDAYS discovering Portugal – flying to Porto where we rented a car after a couple of days and driving around 1500 km down to the south coast and back to Porto. We were really lucky with the warm sunny weather and could swim in the unusual warm Atlantic ocean! The HIGHLIGHTS of our 10-day long …
Lisbon is a great city to visit for a weekend getaway – there is a good chance the weather will be nicer than at home, the restaurants are amazing, there are lots of museums and historic places, the whole old part of the city has amazing atmosphere with live music bars located in charming narrow streets. We spent here 2 …
On our road trip through Portugal we decided to spent a good portion of our time exploring the south of the country. We went really lucky with the weather in the beginning of October as we had up to 30C all the 4 DAYS we were there. This made it possible to SWIM and SUNBATHE on one of the best …
Back home, we don´t eat out that often, but when travelling we love to taste something local or something we never tried before (of course there are some borders at experimenting ;)). Even though we often had apartments or rooms with a kitchen on our trip around Portugal, we almost never cooked by ourselves this time – simply because finding …
Just a few more days and we´re off to Portugal! As we were searching on where to go for this year´s autumn holidays, we had two conditions. It had to be warmer than at home and it should not be too far. Somewhere where 10 days would be just enough to enjoy a little bit of everything – historic towns, …
Last summer we decided together with 2 GIRL FRIENDS to catch some last warm days and sun rays IN AUTUMN before the winter comes. And because each of us 3 lived in a different country we basically chose our destination based on the plane connections. So we were off, to MADEIRA for 6 days. We were based in Funchal and …
