Today was to be an easy riding day, 20km around the coast to Cascais and then inland to Estoril before another 20 km to Sintra for a day of sightseeing. Sintra is a resort town in the foothills of Portugal's Sintra Mountains and is not far from Estoril, or Lisbon for that matter. Accommodation in Sintra and nearby Cascais was hard to find at a reasonable price so we settled on a great hotel in Estoril for the night. To our delight, we have a view out our hotel w...

After saying good-bye to our Beach Chalet at Rota we set off to explore Portugal for a few days. None of us know too much about this country so we are keen to find out more. We had to retrace our route a little back towards Seville but decided to navigate around this huge city rather than ride through it. We followed the freeway towards Huelva (Greg says it must be a hell-of-a place) and then crossed the border into Portugal. We had to stop to enter our credit ...