Dino Footprints Portugal All that hill-walking in Ireland has stood me in good stead. Since our return to Portugal, the Oldies have been dragging me around a load of cliffs. They’d heard so much about the famous Portuguese dinosaur footprints, they finally decided to take a look at some of them for themselves. The first location was at Cabo Espichel on the southwest corner of the Setúbal peninsula. What a stunningly beautiful spot! Well worth a visit just for the…
Coimbra University Highlights The Oldies are gasping at the grandeur of the medieval centre of Coimbra. They are also gasping after climbing up the hill to get there. This is one steep city! Ancient history is just oozing out of the stonework wherever you go. The narrow streets were clearly not designed with modern traffic in mind. It is hard to believe that cars actually drive up this road! I am gasping at the fact that this relatively small city…
Figueira da Foz and Portugal in Miniature, Coimbra, Portugal Great, the Oldies have hired a car again. Wonder where we’ll end up this time! Par for the course, Her Ladyship’s navigating turns into nag-ivating, we end up on the wrong motorway (once again), but by pure fluke it is more or less going in the direction they had planned to go anyway – northwards. 200 km on, we arrive in Figueira da Foz, a small city on the mouth of…
Money Museum, Lisbon We’re in the money this week! His Lordship being an enthusiastic numismatist (ugh, sounds like a disease, doesn’t it?), I knew that there would be no avoiding a visit to the Museu do Dinheiro, the Money Museum in Lisbon. I had my usual panic attack on arrival, terrified I’d be locked up in some dark cloakroom for the duration of the visit, but once all the Oldies’ belongings, including me, had been passed through the security…
Dr Seamus does it again. I shouldn’t give away any trade secrets, but my special seagull solution administered in copious amounts appears to have been just what the doctor ordered! The Oldies are back on their feet again. Well, sitting down in the Lisbon bars again, and the colour has definitely returned to their cheeks. And their noses. I am so happy to be out and about after been stuck indoors for so long. Our first few outings were merely…