2 week driving trip Portugal in March

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1. Posted by Amaki50 (Budding Member 4 posts) 29w Star this if you like it!

Two seniors, but young at heart, are seeking a driving itinerary for two weeks in Portugal with hotel and more minor town suggestions, PLEASE!
We love staying in less frequented towns and visiting the more well-known ones. We do like comfortable, more upscale lodgings, and parking is essential with a car. Thanks!

2. Posted by zzlangerhans (Travel Guru 582 posts) 29w Star this if you like it!

I can't provide a whole itinerary but the less well-known towns I can suggest are Aveiro, Vila Nova de Milfontes, and Evora.

3. Posted by Amaki50 (Budding Member 4 posts) 29w Star this if you like it!

Thanks very much. I'll check out those towns.

4. Posted by greatgrandmaR (Travel Guru 3016 posts) 29w Star this if you like it!

There is an old book which tells of a similar voyage by Emily Kimbrough and her friends called Pleasure by the Busload. (They were using a VW bus for the trip - it wasn't a guided tour). I was hoping I could get a view of the book on-line so I could tell you what her itinerary was but I could only find it in hard copy. Although I did find a review of it by someone from Brown University which says that Portugal hasn't changed that much since the 1960s. https://cs.brown.edu/~sk/Personal/Books/Kimbrough-Pleasure-Busload/

I don't know whether I read this book before or after I went to Lisbon in 1964. But I didn't get much farther than the area around Lisbon. I went again with my mother in 1993 on a bus tour round trip from Madrid, but since my mother was with me, I didn't write any letters to her and so I have no record of that journey.

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10. Posted by Amaki50 (Budding Member 4 posts) 23w 1 Star this if you like it!

We decided on four days in Lisbon, pick up a rental, and head to Evora and Marvao. After that, we will go to Duoro for a few days and Porto for another three. We return via Sintra for an evening and then to the airport, for a total of fifteen days.

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