Two brits four wheels

What this campsite is like

Or go to Guincho or Sagres!

Out on the open roads

August 2009
The whole thing about Bom Jeseus is that it is the last stop on the Catholic pilgrimage route from Cornwall, UK, that goes through Europe via places such as Lourdes and Santiago de Compostela. Pilgrims could travel this route by boat and foot and may walk the final steps up Bom Jesus by knee [...]

Stayed at the Campismo Municipal. This is a small site, hard to manoeuvre a large motorhome and there is no motorhome service point: ‘Oh just empty your chemical toilet into [regular] toilet’. ‘Er what about the chemicals, doesn’t is need a special drain?’. ‘No, that’s OK’.
Basically they did not have the correct facilities, investment in [...]

August 2009
This was meant to be a kitesurfing stop athough the wind was not favourable. We stayed in a small copse on the at the most western end of the beach. This area is rammed with French folk who are either seasonal tourists or live in the many apartments in the area. Esposende did not [...]

August 2009
A small seaside town south of Povoa de Varzim. We stayed next to the big church (ingreja) near the beach. Unfortunately for us, between the quarter hourly bell tolls and the cannon fire related to the festivals we had little sleep. Oh that place is SO loud. There is not much there to see [...]

About Portugal’s second largest city

July 2009
We went to a thermal spa town naively expecting to find an open thermal pool area like we had in New Zealand. No, this was an indoor spa selling any service related to water. In the end we had a package involving a sauna, a swim and hose down in a warm pool [...]

July 2009
Free camping near the Batalha monument at Bucaco Forest, Portugal. The monument commemorates the union between the British and the Portuguese – according to the the treaty between them allowing for a call of mutual support – that ended with the defeat of not one, not two but three attempts by the French, in [...]