"PORTUGAL" a Portugal Travel Page by Irato

It was a crazy trip. No matter of reasons I had an opportunity to buy very cheap ticket and could take nine days off. There was only one condition – I had to go in two days. Well…I packed my backpack, booked a car in Lisbon and bought Lonely Planet. I had no time for anything else.
I read my guidebook during the flights and in the airport in Zurich. I didn’t want to go to Algarve region and I knew I had no time for Porto. I decided to do a tour around country and spend last few days in Lisbon.
I had no idea where I could be next day, I had no specific plan and…it was great.
I found in Portugal all things I expected – warm and friendly people, beautiful cities, lovely mountains, great olives and cork plantations, nice weather and excellent coffee.
And I found a lot of things I didn’t expect - the castles, the castles, the castles…and the castles – almost every hill or mountain have a castle on the top, charming, white towns or villages hidden within the ancient walls, beautiful windmills – especially in the places I didn’t expected it, eucalyptus trees – you find a lot eucalyptus forests here, so many remains of Celtic culture – I’ve seen great megaliths in the day of equinox (!) and I found out how important person Dom Dinis was.

I had not time enough to see even half of the main attractions of Portugal. Next time…

<B><FONT SIZE="+1"><CENTER>More pictures I put in the TRAVELOGUES :)