Category Archives: Portugal

Portugal, Finally

Saturday 28th April 2018

Today, in glorious sunshine, we packed up and prepared to tow to Camping Turiscampo, near Lagos, Portugal. We travelled almost all the way on the A22 motorway. I had setup a toll account online as Portugal toll roads are all now electronic with no one to take payment or pay by credit/debit card. As we had only 160km to go today we towed at a slower speed than normal to take in the sights of a new, to us, country and save a bit of fuel.

Towing Kilometres – Today: 155 Cumulative: 12,486

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Lagos Portugal, not Nigeria!

Wednesday 2nd May 2018

Lagos on the Algarve was a short drive from where we were staying so it was worthy of a visit.

As we entered the town we passed the Forte da Ponta da Bandeira on one side of the road and the Governor’s Castle (Castelo dos Governadores) on the other. (Neither of which we visited). Just after here we located an underground car park with very reasonable charges. Continue reading Lagos Portugal, not Nigeria!