Days 8 and 9

Well, the last few days have been busy, so I´m writing about these while we wait to catch our flight in the airport. The summaries won´t be as good, but we were a bit hurried!

We woke up around ten in Nazare and grabbed some free breakfast in our hotel, again marvelling at the amazing view from our balcony. We had to do a little shopping in the morning: I needed cold medicine, Matt needed his expresso, and we needed to get a beach towel, too. When we got all of that done, we proceeded to the beach, where we rented a small tent (one of thousands) from the widows who supervise the tent operation. We made our first attempt at going in the water, which was absolutely FREEZING. We returned to our towels, dried and read our books in the sun for awhile. Then we headed off to forage for lunch and mail some postcards. We left our towels to mark our spot, and returned later to find that nothing had been disturbed at all. We made our second foray into the water, and even though it was freezing, Matt and I made a go of it! We eventually got ourselves all the way into the waves, and dove and played around, trying to avoid all the young boogie boarders. We layed out some more, then went back to the hotel to clean up a bit and grab some dinner. We found a place with good crab -- I had my first crab legs! -- and decided to have a night ¨¨in¨on our balcony. We walked to a pizza place and ordered a chorizo and pimento pizza, and while waiting for the pizza tried some of Nazare´´s famous homemade amaretto. It was so good that we bought a bottle. Then we grabbed some beers, picked up our pizza, and spent the night watching the surf and the people from our balcony. It was a delightfully relaxing day.

When we woke up the next morning, we packed up the car and headed to Obidos, an extremely quaint and extremely touristy town. We walked around the small walled town quickly, exploring its churches and palace, and trying the famous Obidos cherry liquor (not so good). Then we got on the road to Lisbon, where we continued our relaxation... a late afternoon-early evening by the pool, dinner and wine, repacking our suitcases and heading to bed.