Nice sunny morning, said our goodbyes and left to head further up the coast. We decided to take a slightly longer route which takes you around Lisbon via motorways. The first surprise was a toll on what we had thought was a toll free road, especially as it was a pot holed dual carriageway! The next surprise was the cost of crossing the enormous bridge over the river Tagus, 8 euros as we’re classed as a lorry! The theme continued with toll roads everywhere, at one point it was the only available road heading north, so the “A” road just fed you onto it. I get the feeling if they could charge you for walking on the pavements they would!
Had a good journey and managed to do some of it on a scenic route, where we passed cork tree orchards and a town where they must make enough bricks for half the country. It had four or five factories all producing tile and bricks situated off the main road, but judging by the houses they are doing very well.
Found the campsite easily enough and due to a new ring road we didn’t have to drive through the town. The site is really nice, very hilly with some grass areas under the pine trees only accessible tents. The receptionist had said we could have any available pitch and the larger ones were just down on the right. When we saw the steep drop we were a little concerned but then we found the larger pitches, all a good size, level and sunny. They are normally the luxury pitches as they have individual water and waste as well as a toilet block just behind them. We took one on the end which could easily hold two of Bella, it is huge, we parked Bella near to the middle so we could sit either side depending in the sun.
Spent the afternoon relaxing, sitting in the sun with a drink.
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