Pretty viewpoint with a glass floor? Say no more. The look-out point of Cabo Girao, mentioned on multiple websites as well as from the mouth of the extremely friendly 7m car rental place employee Bruno, was not too far from our hotel, so when J suggested we walk it, I accepted happily. Okay, “not too […]
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Curral das Freiras – second to nun
One thing that seemed both intriguing and feasible without a car was a trip to the famous Curral das Freiras, Nun’s Valley. What was it? A village in a valley, basically, where once upon time a group of nuns fled to escape pirates (in 1566 to be precise). Today, it is nunless but nonetheless meant […]
Mad 4 Eira
Maybe the title is a bit misleading since Eira is a part of Helsinki. The place I’m writing about today is not in Finland, even though rumours say this place too had been visited by the Vikings. A little island in the Atlantic ocean, 520km west of Morocco, first inhabited by Portuguese settlers in the […]