I thoroughly enjoyed spending the month of love and celebration on this delightful Portuguese island câmaradelobos #capegirão #monte #seixal #machico #calheta #santana #portosanto #monte #madeira #madeiraisland #portugal

On this occasion, I visited the relatively petite Portuguese archipelago known as Madeira - a volcanic *Warning, after two, you might find that you can speak Portuguese, even if you can't. 2,500 kms of hiking (mostly footpaths alongside a network of narrow canals called levadas) #madeira #portugal atlanticocean #archipelago #volcanic #babosasvillage #monte #toboggan #livramento #câmaradelobos #poncha #portuguese

Since I loved that so much, I booked another of Portugal's celebrity chef José Avillez's restaurants #lisbon #portugal #europe #becogourmetcabaret #joseavillez #lxboutiquehotel #tram28 #entretantorooftopbar

It is the second largest city in Portugal, after Lisbon. It’s a nineteenth-century train station that has 20,000 tiles illustrating scenes from Portugal’s past If you prefer to mainline carbs and coffee for brekkie you'll be in heaven in Portugal, but if you fancy #porto #portugal #europe #douroriver #ribeira #ponteluiz #newyear39seve

FEBRUARY The whole month of February was spent with my family in Madeira, Portugal. yearintravel #2023 #manama #bahrain #middleeast #sidibousäid #tunisia #africa #northafrica #funchal #madeira #portugal

MAY The bank holiday weekend was spent exploring the 'Hawaii of Europe' (AKA Madeira, Portugal). staugustine #northamerica #puglia #italy #southoffrance #cannes #antibes #nice #france #madeira #funchal #portugal

In mid-January, a weekend in sunny Lisbon, Portugal was just what the doctor ordered to temporarily rid Quarantine Week 6 (20th April): My weekend in Madeira, Portugal was thwarted. #vilnius #lithuania #newyearseve #europe #london #uk #unitedkingdom #england #lisbon #portugal #brexit

to resemble the end of the old year and birth of new (a 500-year-old tradition). 2017-2018: Porto, Potugal Similar to Spain, in Portugal it is customary to eat twelve raisins, one by one, at midnight. southafrica #africa #kohphiphi #thailand #asia #madrid #spain #valletta #malta #kerela #india #porto #portugal

of July, I went (with eight South Africans and one Australian) to a pimped out villa in Carvoeiro, Portugal #california #kiev #ukraine #chernobyl #pripyat #mallorca #majorca #spain #balearicislands #algarve #portugal

JANUARY My year kicked off with a slight hangover in Porto, Portugal, after spending 31st December 2017 I then visited Portugal for the second time in 2018. list) 6 of 7 continents (only Antarctica remains) #yearinreview #yearintravel #2018 #sweden #porto #portugal

The rest of the year consisted of drinking green wine in Portugal, finding the Lost City of Petra, defying of Pisa, Colosseum, Taj Mahal) UNESCO World Heritage Sites Visited: 15 (Valletta in Malta, Sintra in Portugal travels #2016 #sevenwonders #UNESCOworldheritagesites #northamerica #europe #asia #malta #lisbon #sintra #portugal

April: Reykjavik, Iceland 16th - 20th April: Western Romania Road Trip 24th - 26th April: Madeira, Portugal

I celebrated Christmas in London with other expat orphan friends, and then headed to Porto, Portugal JingshanPark #TheTempleofHeaven #TheImperialGardenofThePalaceMuseum #ForbiddenCity #TiananmenSquare #Porto #Portugal

Hujan Locale: This is one of Will Meyrick's creations (a Scottish celebrity chef, born in Portugal, based

We were looking for a bar where we could watch Suárez take on Ronaldo, errrr, Uruguay play Portugal. As Portugal prepared to head home, we decided to make our own plans for moving on - the first of which

Portugal, Greece and Cyprus announced that they'd welcome vaccinated British holidaymakers into their No new countries were added to the green list, Portugal (the only mainstream holiday quarantine-free

In under 2.5 hours, you can fly from London to Portugal’s capital city, Lisbon. But don’t take my word for it though...The Portuguese love to throw around the odd superlative - some Be sure to order the ‘green wine’ which is a grape that grows in the north of Portugal. market, don't worry, you'll have plenty of time to digest whilst you wait in the long queue for these Portuguese Other Tips: Dinner time is around 8:30pm/9:00pm in Portugal; it’s not quite as late as the Spaniards

Formerly a colony of Portugal, until peaceful independence was gained in 1974, African soul still mixes with Portuguese history to create an exotic, easy-going culture. From Palmeira, we drove about 10-minutes to Espargos (Portuguese for 'asparagus'), where we ate lunch

Once my UK visa is up, I might have to give serious consideration to moving to Austria or Portugal!

She got my name corrected, translated from Portuguese to English, helped me fill out paperwork and snuck