Portugal in Winter for 7/8 days
Jul 29th, 2017, 07:10 AM
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Portugal in Winter for 7/8 days
Hello!
I am starting to plan my holidays for my next vacation on Jan-Feb'18. We are planning to spend 3 weeks between Spain and Portugal. As for Spain, as I have been there a couple of times, so I know where to go.
But I would like to receive opinions on itineraries for Portugal to spend around a week. I will be leaving Spain from Cordoba, so it would be ok to start from south Portugal/Lisboa.
We will be in a car, and we love green landscapes, rivers & nature, wander through small and ancient villages, but are not at all opposed to stay at cities like Lisboa & Oporto, and enjoy them as well, visiting Modern Art Museums if available. We wouldn't like to stay in more than 2....max 3 hotels, because in 1 week more than that would be tedious and would be spending precious time in checking in and out....We love to taste vernacular cuisine and get in touch with popular culture.
Well, I hope you can help me!
Thanks,
I am starting to plan my holidays for my next vacation on Jan-Feb'18. We are planning to spend 3 weeks between Spain and Portugal. As for Spain, as I have been there a couple of times, so I know where to go.
But I would like to receive opinions on itineraries for Portugal to spend around a week. I will be leaving Spain from Cordoba, so it would be ok to start from south Portugal/Lisboa.
We will be in a car, and we love green landscapes, rivers & nature, wander through small and ancient villages, but are not at all opposed to stay at cities like Lisboa & Oporto, and enjoy them as well, visiting Modern Art Museums if available. We wouldn't like to stay in more than 2....max 3 hotels, because in 1 week more than that would be tedious and would be spending precious time in checking in and out....We love to taste vernacular cuisine and get in touch with popular culture.
Well, I hope you can help me!
Thanks,
Jul 29th, 2017, 08:31 AM
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There is a modern art museum in Porto, and of course Lisbon (plus art galleries & fabulous museums of world art in Lisbon which I think would be of great to a modern art lover), but I wouldn't drive in either city. You will have a harder time inside Porto tasting vernacular cuisine than in Lisbon, but it is still worth going (and taxis will get you to areas of the periphery of Porto where you can find traditional food rather than food aimed at tourists in all price ranges).
In Jan & Feb I might stick to the cities to avoid the possibility of lousy driving conditions, but maybe someone else would say it isn't necessary. But I tend to think that the sorts of things that would make a purely countryside tour of Portugal enjoyable are less enjoyable in mid-winter -- with the possible exception of the scenic Algarve, which might tends to overcrowded with tourists in warm months.
In Jan & Feb I might stick to the cities to avoid the possibility of lousy driving conditions, but maybe someone else would say it isn't necessary. But I tend to think that the sorts of things that would make a purely countryside tour of Portugal enjoyable are less enjoyable in mid-winter -- with the possible exception of the scenic Algarve, which might tends to overcrowded with tourists in warm months.
