Slowly travelling the world together
Slowly travelling the world together
The very cute photo of the youngsters on the cover of this blog post, and above, is courtesy of the Camara or municipality of Guimarães. The rest were all taken by me whilst we watched the festivities. The Festas Nicolinas took us totally by surprise. We were sitting at a restaurant in the square and …
Guimarães is one of the finest historic cities in northern Portugal and is fondly regarded by the Portuguese as the birthplace of their country. It was here that the first Portuguese king (Afonso Henriques 1109-1185) was born, and Guimaraes was briefly the capital city during the foundation of Portugal. We found it to be a …
We spent ten days exploring Northern Portugal. Two nights were spent in Porto and Lisbon, but we did not explore either city. Our goal was to explore Northern Portugal and we rather spent three days in the National Park that borders Spain and then five days based outside Braga. The map below shows the places …