Portugal

We reached this edge of Europe for the first time in 2020, and taking into account the negative experiences of hitchhiking in Spain and the coronavirus lurking in the background, we didn’t have much hope of reaching our destination fast. Nevertheless, we took up the challenge and it went much better than we expected. If you want to find out how hitchhiking works in Portugal (at least from our experience), read on.

Despite my interest in geography, until recently I couldn’t name any other Portuguese city than Lisbon and Porto. However, after researching a bit, I came across Aveiro. It’s not a very big city (less than 100,000 inhabitants), but there’s definitely a lot to see there.

Porto is a city that, on the one hand, looks better on pictures than in reality, but on the other - it gains character when you get to know it better. We decided not to go crazy and limited the visit to one day, and after leaving, we felt pretty satisfied. In this post you’ll find a quite biased list of Porto’s worthwhile attractions, sprinkled with comments and our impressions.

One of the other places we saw during our visit to Portugal was the southern Algarve region. What’s there to see in this eye-catching place? Which places did we like the most? Today we’ll answer these and many other questions.