The bread oven of Portugal

Advantages: A land that hasn't changed for centuries
Disadvantages: May be too hot for some and too lonely

...The wide expanse of Portugal that is the Alentejo covers about the third of the country and is the most thinly populated area. Often called, 'the bread oven of Portugal,' it is one of the hottest places I have ever been to. The heat at times is unbearable and the only word I can use to describe the heat is blistering. Yet the winters can be freezing and you will often see men and women walking...

Praski 22.05.2010 15:09 · Read review
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Review of Alentejo (Portugal)

Graceful Portugal

Advantages: Relaxing, hot, beautiful scenery
Disadvantages: very steep streets, mad drivers

...I went on my first holiday aboard in 20yrs last year, with my sister, her husband, and their family - to Portugal, we stayed in an apartment complex a few miles out of Lagos - We were only there for a week and had a day trip into Lagos - we caught the local bus, which was air conditioned, but was a bit rickerty, the journey took us about 40mins, through very narrow streets in places. At one...

arnoldhenryrufus 17.07.2005 16:21 · Read review
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Review of Lagos (Portugal)

Map it out

Advantages: good quality
Disadvantages: a little more colour

...I like doing Jigsaws and find it a relaxing hobby. I always complete the jigsaws on a special jigsaw folder that allows me to transport it around the room and paqck it up tidily when I have not completed it but want to store it away. I always get some form of jigsaw at Christmas or Birthdays and one year I was bought this world map jigsaw. I enjoy travelling and seeing new places so I was looking...

Jennster85 06.12.2011 13:54 · Read review
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