Planning a Road trip

One of the beautiful thing we experienced recently is the Road trip.  Certain things we could prepare is looking at how to plan ahead. There are so many things to do in hand. Things like getting the itenary, journey planning, b n b bookings, visiting special places, shrines, locals, villages, local culture..

To the Land of Portugal

Don't know why I still remember Vasco De Gama which I have learnt when I was in school who was a portugese explorer and also Magellan who circumnavigated around the earth.

 As you entered the borders of Spain to Portugal, you could see a great shift in the geographical features of the land . The land moved into piles of trees especially Pine and green instead of dry lands. Started slowly seeing portugese instead of fading Espaniol. I could see a far glance of Sign post as we entering Portugal in 1 km. So happy and grateful the journey reached somewhat the destination country. It was such an incredible journey for us, breathtaking as well as scary to me. But trusting in the mercy of God. He is Faithful and will sustain our journey .

Video of the entry to  Portugal,  Portugal Landscapes.

It took roughly 5 hours to get there in Tomar in Portugal from Avila in Spain. Portugal is more green and with lots of winding roads. The routes are of highlands, driving up alongside you could see mountains ..The parke( services) has more roofed parking areas  and areas to refresh. It is extremely hot, people look very tanned and more Indianish.Lots of bikers passing by. 

Portugal is extraordinary with  their habit of being wild and adventerous tinged in their culture, romance and food. 

Me and annu looking forward to have some Portugese custard tarts which are very famous for.

Some of the portugese words to use like

Obrigada: Thank you

Disculpe; Sorry

Ola sounds as Oh ..La : HI

Bom dias: Good morning.

Por favor: Excuse me.

Sunday: Dimanche( pretty much similar to Spanish).

Portugese worrds use lots of nasal sounds.Bon..turns to bom using nasally. 

We reached Tomar where we sre stopping by for next three days. This is pretty much village area , shops you get to travel at least 4 kms. But its a typical Portugese house , The house owner is very kind and converses in English. Thats what we want most.

  Ginger wine Home made. He is very social and kind. Gave us types of vine and shown through his vineyard, lemons, oranges, pome granates.

Neighbouring areas are full of vines, looks stunning with plenty of olive trees and so on. Feeling glad and enjoyed the land. Me and Jocha went for a short troll  . Some chapels nearby, get the hang of Kerala in some aspects , TV's here are telecasting H Mass in various channels as its Sunday ( Dimanche, Saturday known as Saboth).

There are so many cognates between Spanish and Portugese. If you love languages you can get the hang of basics.

So we went to bed with everyone have tteir own rooms  wonderful jouse to retreat. These days we are all blessed with independent rooms which is a bit weird for us. However, everyone is  enjoying their own space too.

Next day after a pause from our long trip, everyone chilled out and later on we were out to the nearby river to have a time of fun.

 As usual water always sparks the kids, enjoying splashing in water and swimming.

        Kayaks nearby 

    With my Theresu

       Soaking in sunshine

 

    Me and my sweet hearts

          We will be visiting Our Lady of Fàtima tomorrow and visited a little bit today. Woww..so epic.

Portugese foods are mainly seafoods, everywhere you could see ...fish, sepia, shell fish,   others are custard tarts, churascuterie, . 

Vine, olives   pome granates


Some of the very needed portugese usuages

Obrigada (o): Thank you

Oh- La : hi 

Por favor: Please

Bom dias; Good morning 

Places to visit

One of the famous place to visit is Porta, the other one is Nazare which we visited. Such a lovely beach side with strong waves. It is said to be the very goodplace for surfers. A good time ww spent in the beach side , there is a very beautiful Our Lady's church on the beach and the statue of Mary feeding baby Jesus is said to be brought in on 3rd century to Spain fromNazareth and the yo Portugal by a monk on 7th century.

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