Portugal - More castles

Managed to drag myself out of bed this morning for an amazingly punishing 5 mile run.  It was crazy steep downhill or crazy steep uphill with absolutely nothing flat.  I guess that is your option when running form a ancient fortress town.  The up side was that it was a beautiful morning and it was a lovely view (by my legs are saying this is so much worse than anything I've subjected them to in a long time and I run a fair number of hills at home).




After a little shower and breakfast, we did one more loop of the town and headed to Almourol, it is a lovely castle that is in a river and unless the water level is really low, you need a boat to get to it.  We had lunch looking at the castle but apparently we had bad timing because the guys who rent the boats took a lunch break when we were finishing lunch and we couldn't get across.  We had a bigger driving day today so we decided to not wait for them which was a shame but the right call for Wren.



We drove to Sintra which is a bigger city just north of Lisbon.  It has a Moorish castle on the hill right outside of town (part of our plans for tomorrow) and is really pretty.  Today was a bit more of a travel/chill day and I'm doing laundry tonight so not quite as many pictures and adventures.  We did have dinner at the most amazing restaurant tonight.   The food was amazing and the waiter was so sweet to Wren.  He said his girls are grown up and he missed little kids.  He even sat down and fed her soup for a couple minutes.  It was called Tulhas in the center of the historic district in Sintra.  I highly recommend it.


Looking down at the town of Sintra.

The part of historic section of Sintra.  The castle is up above the trees (see below)

Moorish castle along the top of the ridge

Wren looking in to a fountain.

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