j + j travelblog

Next, the stuff we found endearing:

• The people: Even setting aside the bias our wonderful hosts might instill, we can objectively state the Portuguese were the friendliest peeps we'd encountered since (at least) Turkey
• The Coast: The Algarve was simply stunning
• Food and beverage: Best fish we'd had in many moons (setting aside the fish ovaries of course!), pastries that I furthered the guts ballooning, this amazing almond liquor and muito delicioso vino
• Lisbon: it's rare that a capital city of well over 2M people can maintain so much charm
• Holiday Spirit: I'd hate to be the one stuck with the electricity bill in Jan
• The fact that the next list is so scant!

Stuff falling somewhere on the amusing > annoying > disturbing scale

• Reckless drivers: though I felt pretty comfortable behind the wheel, P has the EU's highest road fatality rate by a wide margin.