Sun. Wind. Wild, endless shores. The deepest azure ocean, and rocks so unearthly, they are hypnotic. An unparalleled sense of untamed freedom. A stark, undeniable revelation of the essential. Portugal quickly transforms into a deeply personal history. This is not your typical holiday; this is a reset vacation. No all-inclusive resorts or rigid schedules; instead, it offers everything you never knew you were missing. during This journey through shockingly beautiful places you will find your way back to your true self. thankfully, most of Portugal will remain indecipherable to five-star resort aficionados. because here, the ocean, sun, cliffs, and wind possess the rare gift of stripping away all clichés, revealing…
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Beautiful is absolute, and so is PENICHE
“One more stop” he said. We were chasing daring lighthouses, pure beaches and wild coastline, as usual. It had been a scorching hot day in August, the kind of day that hushes everything and brings out the light, white houses and white sands surrounded by a shimmering halo, people scarce and wrinkled by sun and dry winds. Coming down from Nazaré along the coast, we had taken an arduous trip inland to see Fátima (grossly overrated) and Batalha (true gem), and were heading to Óbidos for the night. Tired from the heat and the long drive, I was truly looking forward to the cool walls, green ivy, and refreshing chatter of…
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The treasure map to Portugal’s best beaches
This is your treasure map to Portugal’s best beaches: from North to South, a pocket collection for the happy few charting an Atlantic odyssey. Save your pins! THE FINDS COSTA DE PRATA – between Porto and Lisbon Infinite white beaches for surfers and lovers of the immense blue, and secret coves that are hard to find and even harder to leave. VICENTINA, the freedom enclave – south of Lisbon South of Lisbon, the coastline morphs to a vast, untamed expanse, a true frontier for those who seek raw nature and expansive solitude. From the privileged Costa Caparica to Europe’s last wild coast, Costa Vicentina, this is the happy few freedom…
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THE BEST TRAVEL ADVICE IN THE WORLD
ONE: Travel to wonderland. Just use the rabbit hole and go where the magic is: visit Disneyland or the Harry Potter Studios, fly a kite on the beach, spend a week in an old mill or farmhouse, camp in the desert and bathe in the Milky Way at night. Travel back to yourself, recapture the world as it was before you grew up. TWO: Return to your happy place. You must have one. It’s either a cabin, or a lake, or a beach, or a city, a precise time of the year, a table with a view, or a person. Return as many times as you can, or move there.…
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The Beauty And The Beast: NAZARE
Far enough up the coast from Lisbon, Nazaré is only transited by tourist packs during the day. If you avoid the classical summer rage, you find a blue and white village that has not sold its soul to the devil of leisure just yet. The legend It is an old fishing village, truly ancient. Around the year 700, its inhabitants fought pirates when a legendary duo entered the scene: a monk and a king. The king wielded a sword of bravery, and the monk bore a statue of redemption. Roderic, the last Visigoth king, settled here with his monk and a statue of the Virgin Mary, borne from distant Nazareth.…
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Teach me, my love
While wandering in Alfama one afternoon, with fado and just the right amount of saudade on my mind, I stumbled upon a poetic wall – literally. The whole world’s poetry was written on that wall: there were a few hand-painted ceramic plates with blue and white verses adorning the wall, but the most brilliant, heart-breaking and dramatic of them all was scribbled in pencil by some anonymous guy who had trully encountered the love of his life. it went like this: into the waves of your hair / You taught me how to swim/ Now that you are bald / Teach me how to skate
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Vacanta in Portugalia sau Mai e timp pentru revelatii
Soare. Vant. Plaje salbatice, nesfarsite. Oceanul cel mai albastru, rocile nepamantene, hipnotice. Un inegalabil sentiment al libertatii. O revelatie categorica si iremediabila a lucrurilor esentiale. Portugalia devine repede o istorie personala. Nu va fi un concediu, va fi o vacanta. Nu va fi all inclusive cu trei mese, pat si plaja cu sezlong, ci va include tot ce nici macar nu iti dadeai seama ca iti lipseste. Nu va fi doar o calatorie intr-un loc frumos, ci un voiaj uluitor de firesc inspre tine insuti. Si nu va fi descifrabil pentru amatorii de cinci stele la resort, pentru ca aici oceanul, soarele, stancile si vantul au darul sa te dezbrace…
