Portugal 1999-2004

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Below is a summary of highlights we experienced during our holidays from 1999 thru 2004.

In general we experienced a laid back atmosphere with friendly helpful people.

Mostly in rural areas we experienced life to be dirt cheap, non-commercial and soaked 

in Catholic religion.

We also discovered the great past of the country with lots of history and the richness it

had when it was a world wide trading nation.

Today we see the rapid development of the country into a full grown EU member.

We did a lot of camping in the whole of the country, starting in the very north in

Caminha /Villar de Mouros and the following years in Sátão /Lamas, Santarem /Alpiarça ,

Pombal/Lourical and this year the Algarve.

Some pictures to get a glimpse of the atmosphere in sequential order:

Caminha_map.JPG (201814 bytes)  Monte_Tecla.JPG (227297 bytes)  Caminha_graveyard.JPG (165415 bytes)  Ponte de lima.JPG (328593 bytes)  Valenca_tree.JPG (217236 bytes)

Viseu_map.JPG (105918 bytes)  Viseu_azulejos.JPG (330942 bytes)  Aveiro_boats.JPG (241404 bytes)  Aveiro_station.JPG (271474 bytes)  Casfreires_city_life_1.JPG (220509 bytes)

Casfreires_city_life_2.JPG (241015 bytes)  Cujo_shepard.JPG (283079 bytes)  Cujo_cows.JPG (254875 bytes)  Donkey.JPG (262227 bytes)  Estrela_torre.JPG (218711 bytes)

Lamas_terpentine.JPG (281805 bytes)  Lamas_rio_paiva.JPG (288645 bytes)  Satao_market.JPG (249960 bytes)  Market_1.JPG (225577 bytes)  Satao_eucalypt.JPG (274091 bytes)

Porto_eiffel_bridge.JPG (237060 bytes)  Porto_harbour.JPG (247533 bytes)  Rio_tua.JPG (274820 bytes)  Motor_repair.JPG (257820 bytes)  Tarouca_cloister.JPG (461293 bytes)

Santarem_map.JPG (150695 bytes)  Santarem_fire_station.JPG (230259 bytes)  Coimbra_tree.JPG (306389 bytes)  Coimbra_pavement.JPG (251044 bytes)  Fatima_square.JPG (158151 bytes)

Batalha_sculpture.JPG (238176 bytes)  Bathalha_church.JPG (255186 bytes)  alcobaca.JPG (240196 bytes)  Busaco.JPG (300663 bytes)  Bathalha_masterpiece.JPG (245070 bytes)

Cork_tree.JPG (323557 bytes)  Alpiarca_sunset.JPG (153852 bytes)  Lisboa_jeronimos.JPG (252880 bytes)  Lisboa_Praca_do_commercio.JPG (205002 bytes)  Santarem_agave.JPG (292981 bytes)

Lisboa_torre_belem.JPG (178702 bytes)  Lisboa_world_exibition.JPG (162926 bytes)  Palacio_da_pena_areal_view.JPG (561533 bytes)  Palacio_da_pena_1st_entrance.JPG (271565 bytes)  Palacio_da_pena_main_entrance.JPG (275056 bytes)

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