Pinching Ourselves

Elaine was up early for the sunrise over the HS2 Railway …

These two French trucks arrived at about midnight, they are kitted out as motorhomes!  There would be plenty of room inside one of those, the fuel consumption would be pretty high though …

Geoffrey's new position whilst we are cruising, I think he is making the most of the A/C …

Give way to horse and carts on roundabouts …

Somehow I must have hit the OK for toll roads on TomTom as we ended up on one approaching Lisbon!  I did the correct thing and just drove straight through, ignoring all the signs … we drove straight through the next one as well, I'm not sure what the consequences will be!

There is a mega bridge crossing Lisbon bay …

And here is the HS2 approaching Lisbon Central …

Over the bridge we went,below there were lots of sailing boats doing their thing …
 
This was the first heavy traffic we had encountered since leaving the UK,  Up to the left of the pic is The Angel of The North statue, recently nicked from the Geordies.

We then had a stop at Maccas to post yesterday’s blog and check emails.  It was bloody awful as it was a Saturday it was full of screaming kids … we didn’t even bother with a coffee, just did the required and scarpered.
Next stop was Aldi for a quick top up, this was the opposite it was deserted with only one girl running the whole shop!
 
We reached our destination of Sesimbra, which was a delightful little port not far from Lisbon.  Here we are driving down a road we weren’t supposed to!

Being close to Lisbon and being Saturday it was a bit too busy so we drove around to the port and took a pic and had a quick walk around.  There really weren’t any good spots to park the bus, so we decided we would head out of Dodge and look for somewhere a little less crowded.

Fifteen minutes late we found it … woohoo a cliff top road with massive drops into the sea below, magic. 
 
The views along the coast were to die for, so we stopped for lunch in a layby to work out how to get down to the little coves below …



The little concrete posts stop you plummeting to certain death if you veer off line …

After one error, where the road got too narrow and we had to reverse for half a mile to turn around, we found a nice spot …

Just a few feet from the van we had out own personal beach, not a soul there they all head off to the big beach down the road.  So … we sat … and pinched ourselves for a bit !!!
    It were right lovely …

Time to get the shirt off!! (and suck the gut in … El)

 

Later in the day we moved just down the road to the main beach near the entrance to Setabul harbour …

We parked up on the beach front for the night with some other motorhomes …

Once again no pommie motorhomes….where are they all?

… and this is where we are at …