Sunday, February 20, 2011

Cascais, Portugal

Cascais harbour at sunset
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Using Cascais as our base has been great for exploring locally and afar. It´s a great little tourist town with clean beaches, pretty cobbled streets,  nice old town, and a pleasant harbour and yacht club. We got free bikes and rode to Boca do Inferno (Mouth of Hell) to watch the monstrous waves come crashing in to a small cove. Rode as far as we could along the coast, on a really nice well paved bike trail.  Walking along the seafront promenade to the apparently world-renowned Estoril (though we didn't think much of it) was pleasant and made for interesting surf and surfer/skim boarder-watching as the swells came rolling in. Good, too, to hang out with my parents, occasionally tucking in to monster feasts as it seems to be the way of the De Sousas!  We are staying at my parents apartment/flat in Cascais, which has been a relaxing change of pace.  * Mush

View of Cascais waterfront

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