Lua de Mel is Portuguese for Honeymoon. Wanted to share some great memories from our trip. We went to Portugal in November, for two amazing weeks! I had been so wrapped up in wedding plans I was thrilled to throw myself into exploring everything this country had to offer. Weather was colder than we'd hoped, and we only got to put on our bathing suits once, but we got great use out of jeans and sweaters.
My husband and I love an adventure. With a decent map and an open road in a place we've never been - we were totally in our element. We rented a car in Lisbon and spent the two weeks driving around Portugal and seeing where we ended up. We didn't plan ahead much, except for the hotel for the first two nights, and plotted the rest of the trip day by day. Two weeks was a good amount of time to see the entire country if you don't stay in one place too long.
Portugal has a different variety of beauty. The landscape varies from open fields of wheat and small working farms, open plains with African looking cork trees, to ancient, time worn European and Moorish style architecture, many crumbling into dust under the weight of time. Then within an hours drive the horizon rises into an intensely modern glass towered Manhattan-esqe cityscapes. It's at this intersection of the old and new where Portugal is it's best. Read more about our trip here.
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