Having a ball in Portugal

We had a great weekend in Portugal. We flew to Lisbon on Friday afternoon and rented a car and drove about a half hour north, to a town called Sintra. It's high up in the hills close to the Atlantic coast, and it was beautiful. It was like a fairytale land - deep dark forests, crazy castles, and brightly coloured buildings.

The only drawback to Portugal was lack of vegetarian food! Everything had great lashings of ham or squid - not ideal, really. I ate a lot of bread and cheese. (And ice-cream.... had to keep my strength up somehow...!)

Even though we were only there for the weekend, we managed to see a bunch of castles and old monasteries, plus we had an afternoon at the beach, and did lots of walking around too. It was a lovely weekend - and one of the last weekend trips that we're doing! Booo hooo!

44 days until I fly home! Soooo crazy!

A wee alleyway in Sintra

Dome at Pena Castle

At the Moorish Castle, with Pena Castle in the background

Little Boy Red (playing with the new camera features!)

Our wee tent on the beach

Rob up a big giant tree