I had an appointment in Lisbon. It’s a 3 hour drive so I decided to spend the weekend and purchased tickets to Belem Tower and Jeronimos Monastery in advance for Saturday. I had visited both these sites my very first time in Lisbon, in 2004, when I was visiting with my daughter. I had also purchased tickets to both sites a year and a half ago when I was on a longer road trip of central Portugal. When I arrived…
After leaving Aveiro, I stopped at Nazaré on the way to Sintra. I had checked one website and supposedly there were “giant waves” forecast. I got there though and the waves were just average (about 30 feet). Talking to another person while walking down to the fort, they told me about the site, Surfline, that they use and said was always accurate. I did get to see inside the small Chapel of the Miracle, or Ermida da Memória da Nazaré,…