This weekend I attended to a trip to Portugal arranged by a local event management company here in Sevilla. The trip started at Saturday morning instead of Friday evening what I originally assumed. This caused also problems for me as the journey was going to last until Monday instead of Sunday. Anyway, as the bus started, I took a look at the company we were travelling with. As usual, Americans are majority in these kinds of trips as there are hundreds of them studying here in Sevilla. Well that wasn’t problem for me as I get along pretty good with them and it’s always nice to meet new people.
I had no idea what Portugal would be like and therefore had no expectations either, nor positive or negative. I kind of imagined it would be pretty much the same as Spain with similar cities, landscape, nature, language and people. How wrong can one be! It was incredible how the landscape suddenly changed when we crossed the border. I don’t know if there are some other reasons for this, but at least in Portugal there wasn’t nearly as much farmed land as there is in Andalucía and that made the landscape very different. Different but beautiful.
We were bit unlucky with the weather and it was raining more or less for the whole weekend. That meant that going to beach wasn’t an option which changed the plans a little bit. I didn’t mind though, as I am usually not so keen on lying on the beach for hours. Instead we headed out to explore the city centre of Albufeira. Even though the city is very touristic, I have to say it is also beautiful with its white marble-like houses, beach and nice architecture. In the evening we all headed out together for a bar tour in the club street of Albufeira which was also pretty much fun!
The next day we departed at 12 o’clock in the morning to Lagos and Sagres, where you can visit the south westernmost point in Europe. The place was pretty amazing, there were very, very high and steep cliffs on the shore and it looked really magnificent. Also, in Sagres I met couple Finnish people having vacation and visiting the place which was a nice surprise. I guess we’re everywhere! Even more amazing than the cliffs in Sagres was the beach in Lagos... Small beach surrounded by high, steep cliffs, pure sand and extremely clear water… So beautiful that I thought I had died and ended up in the paradise! Then I figured I wouldn’t end up there anyway, so all this must be real :D Real but just amazingly beautiful!
The next day it was time to check out from the hotel and head out to a beach. But again, the rain messed out our plans and instead of going to the beach we went to visit a nice little town called Tavira. There we had couple of hours of time to walk around the city and have some lunch. Really nice and beautiful little town. Altogether Portugal must be the most beautiful country in Europe and definitely by far the most beautiful country I’ve ever visited! Also, the cities and landscape are somehow sympathetic and something I really like. In addition to all that, people in Portugal are very nice, friendly and most of them speak English.
This weekend convinced me so totally that I want to say if you are ever going to visit southern Europe, you should definitely put Portugal first in your list!
Nossa, nossa
Assim você me mata
Ai se eu te pego
Ai ai se eu te pego
Delícia, delícia
Assim você me mata
Ai se eu te pego
Ai ai se eu te pego
Assim você me mata
Ai se eu te pego
Ai ai se eu te pego
Delícia, delícia
Assim você me mata
Ai se eu te pego
Ai ai se eu te pego
Ei kommentteja:
Lähetä kommentti