"First Impressions of Portugal" Carcavelos by ymike2000

My first stop on a winter tour in 2001 was Portugal. We stayed in Carcavelos, did a concert in Belem and a TV spot too.

Carcavelos is on the Estoril Coast, on the mouth of the Tagus River (Rio Tejo). It is about 15 km from Lisbon. The climate is not too hot in the summer and mild in the winter. The wide beaches have very fine white sand and surfing is very popular here.

I was tired from the trans-Atlantic flight, but I had never been to Portugal before, and of course I had to go for a walk! Our hotel was just across the road from the beach. There were crossings both over and under the road. It was high tide, so this is what the under road crossing looked like! Needless to say I went over the road to take my walk.

Had I been a VT member at the time, I might have known that VT Friend Loira (Monica) lived in this very town. But it was not until nearly a year later that I joined, and I met Loira for my first ever VT meeting the following spring when I came back to Portugal on vacation.