Fransson: Portugal

Just a few days after we arrived in Sweden, we packed our bags again and took off. The destination this time was Portugal. We spent 10 days in this beautiful and very nice country and we can definitely recommend a trip to this corner of Europe. Lisbon is the capital of Portugal and we looked around that city for two days before we went south to the cost of Algarve where we met up with the Asp family (Anders, Erika, Elsa and Agnes).

Algarve is busy with tourists, but there is a reason for it:
- the weather is very nice (it can be too hot sometimes, but we were lucky. Most days the mercury didn't get above 32-33C and with a cool breeze. We explored different beaches everyday and they were all spectacular.

The water was, however, not super child friendly, since the waves were pretty strong and it got deep pretty quickly. Some adults complained about the temperature, and it wasn't 25-27C like in Croatia, but this is the Atlantic and you can't expect more. The kids prefered the pool. Yes, we did have a pool and after a morning at the beach, we hung out around the pool.

We are now back at the cottage in Sweden, and since it takes a long time to upload pictures, we will start with just a few today and post more later on.

View over Lisbon, which is built on several hills. Just like most other south European cities, it had small alleys, many plazas, crazy drivers, history and beautiful buildings. We liked the city.