A glimpse of lovely Minho
To many potential visitors the mainly poor weather of the winter and the dodgy weather prospects at...
Lisbon, Portugal's Capital
Praises are bestowed upon Henry the Navigator whose thirst for geographical knowledge and desire to...
Lisbon, luscious and multi-levelled
BASIC CHARACTERISTICS: At river level or near enough is a large square, the Praça do Comércio with...
Madeira – a sort of summary
This is a supplement to two reports and various travel tips and travel guides that I have done on Ma...
Tavira - Pink icing on the cake.
One thing that was against going to Portugal for a winter break, in my view, was having to fly to Fa...
Port Wine Lodges
Walking, in the evening, along the Cais da Ribeira in Porto you'll see neon signs glowing in the dar...
Panoramas, up & down walking and good food!
The heart of Lisbon is a relatively new area called Baixa. After the 1755 earthquake this part was r...
Porto, Douro railways and North Portugal
If you treat Porto right, you may be in danger of getting a cricked neck as it is its towering skyli...
Sumptuous Sintra
Sintra has nothing like the public transport potential of Lisbon and, after a short time, you’d f...
Obidos and its Palm Sunday procession.
My introduction to Obidos was not fortunate. We had to change trains from Porto twice, the second ti...
