Portugal

Lisbon is the capital of Portugal, and the second oldest city in Europe, after Athens in Italy. Considered to be an incredibly picturesque and captivating city, Lisbon has more UNESCO World Heritage sites and museum treasures than most other European nations. This friendly city also makes for an ideal base to visit and explore some…

Before visiting Portugal, we’d only ever drank Port while spending Christmases at Shelley’s family home. It’s one of her family’s Christmas traditions but brands are very limited in UK supermarkets. We love its deep sweetness and rich aroma so were keen to taste more of the wine-like alcoholic drink. There’s no better place in the world…

Running alongside the Douro River is picturesque Porto, Portugal’s second largest city after Lisbon. Porto is finally starting to get the tourist attention is deserves from around the world. We found out why when we visited the city as part of our Portugal 2 week trip. The city is effortlessly photogenic so we captured plenty of Porto photos…

Lisbon and it’s historic Alfama district was the part of our two week Portugal tour that we were most looking forward to. We recently had friends and family members visit the city over long weekends and feedback about Portugal’s hilly capital was all positive. We’d booked to stay in Lisbon old town because we’d heard…

Two weeks in Portugal is the perfect amount of time to see the best of what Portugal has to offer. If you’re in the process of compiling your own Portugal two week itinerary then you’ve come to the right place! Aside from retired British expats and sun-seeking families visiting the Algarve, Portugal has been overlooked…