Portugal

Just spent my Easter holidays in Portugal.......gotta love the place. Started off in the Algarve in a place called Santa Eulalia, gorgeous private little beach there, lovely rock pools, great restaurants - GO!! Then off to my favourite place in the world, Lisbon, and as usual, it did not fail to impress! Spent 3 days getting lost in its windy streets, photographing it's excellent graffiti (photos to come), and just generally relaxing. Met some great people at the BEST hostel in the world - OASIS LISBOA, and did the whole Bairro Alto party thing.... Then off to Cascais, where i spent 3 idyllic days in another excellent brand new hostel called CASCAIS BEACH HOSTEL - really worth visiting, too. The village is very neat and clean and tidy, and has a small working dock, free bike hire, excellent walkways, great restaurants, and excellent connection to paces like Cabo da Roca (westernmost point of Europe, great sunsets) and Sintra (UNESCO World Heritage Site)....if you don't mind the wildcat bus drivers who I think used to test drive for Ferrari (I got ringside seats to some poor child getting 'bus sick' into a supermarket packet) Excellent memory there! Thereafter it was back on the train to the Algarve, and this time I stayed in a timeshare resort in Praia do Ouro (Beach of Gold) Got a bit of tanning in, got totally annihilated by bedbugs in the hotel bed, spent my last day in the Algarve emergency Rooms getting injections for the severe allergic reaction I had to the bites... blah blah blah. Back at school now and HATING it. Why? WHY? WHY?