Portugal - the Algarve Region

Atlantic Coast of Portugal at a popular surfing spot - Amado Beach

 Turns out when you don't go through photos right away after a trip, it makes it a bit harder to go back through them and create a blog over a month later....  hence the procrastination on blogging about our trip to Southern Portugal and Sevilla at the end of April.  It was a great trip, and got us out of cold and rainy Germany... although it still wasn't the hot weather we wanted/needed to defrost after the German winter.  I think that might require a trip to Palm Springs!  But overall, it was a great trip and wonderful to be on the coast for a bit.

We stayed in a tiny (TINY) coastal town near Tavira and Cabanas in the Algarve.  We were able to spend one sunny afternoon at a beach called Praia Verde which was absolutely gorgeous... we even had sun peak through on the coast and that was amazing!  One advantage of the weather generally not being conducive to laying out, however, was that we saw WAY more of the Algarve than we thought we would.  We visited a bunch of neighboring towns and beaches, and made it to an awesome surfing spot on the Atlantic side of Portugal.

Tiny Portugese town of Tavira

Tavira Church

A square named after both of us?

Day at Praia Verde

Praia Verde cabanas - if it wasn't so windy we could have stayed longer!

Pool at our B&B - we didn't get to take advantage of it but it was in a beautiful setting of orange tree groves

I loved all the wysteria and flowers at the B&B - it smelled amazing!

Lavendar at the B&B with orange trees in the background

Day trip to Salema

Day trip to Moorish Castelo de Silves