A beautiful place, recommended daytrip from Lisbon

Trip Start May 29, 2005
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Trip End Mar 25, 2006


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Wednesday, September 14, 2005

Started the day with a climb up the mountain to the Castelo Dos Mouros, a romantic castle in ruins and surrounded by forest, huge battlements circum-navigating the hill. I could imagine standing on top of the wall and giving any invading enemy hell from up there. I was also expecting Peter Pan to come swinging out of the dense forest at any time!! Spent time climbing the battlements and looking at the views - took lots of photos (Christian shocked me by saying that we have taken over 3,000 photos between the two of us - everyone looking forward to our slide show when we get home! ha ha ha ha).

Next we took a visit to the Palace National De Sintra, which had very old tiles (500 years) on the walls and painted wooden ceilings - apparently the king was caught with a courtier being naughty and all the other courtiers became very jealous so he painted a ceiling with 96 magpies each with a sign saying ´no harm done´.

Quinta Da Regaleira was a treat, a grand finale for the day. This is where the Adams´Family must have come forthere Europena summer holiday. It is a huge mansion on a few acres of land full of plenty of weird stuff - Ex heaps of grottos, tunnels inter connecting the whole garden, caves, hide outs, a few wells with spiralling stair cases going down the sides (kind of like inverted towers going into the ground), fish ponds everywhere and accessable from the tunnels, and all moss covered and errie. Over all, really interesting and it brought out the kid in us, nice change from the usual site seeing stuff.
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