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Portugal   Capital   Area   Population    Languages   Currency	Lisbon (Lisboa) 92 230 km2 10 640 000 Portuguese Euro (EUR)
Portugal is the most south-westerly country in Europe, and is entirely surrounded by Spain (to the north and east) and the Atlantic Ocean (to the south and west). The population is predominantly Catholic, despite five centuries of Muslim rule in the first millenium AD. The Portuguese were always skilled seafarers and fishermen. Their early explorers sailed all over the world, including round the Cape of Good Hope and across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas. Fish (mainly sardines) forms a major part of the Portuguese diet.

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This trip is still in the planning stages. But I hope to update the page at least every couple of days from 30 September onwards ...

[Monday 29 September 2025: Cape Town, South Africa] TAAG (Angolan Airlines) will whisk us north to Luanda, where we'll have to endure a four hour layover in the middle of the night.

[Tuesday 30 September: Lisbon, Portugal] We'll arrive in Lisbon at 7 am, which will give us plenty of time to take the Metro to Oriente Station (Lisbon's main transport hub), followed by a train to Porto in the north of Portugal. At Porto's Campanha station we need to get on a suburban train to Sao Bento station in the city centre, from where it should be a five minute walk to our digs for the next two nights.

[Monday 27 October: Lisbon] A late night flight from Lisbon back to South Africa will leave us with several hours to explore parts of this city that we haven't seen yet.

[Tuesday 28 October 2025: Cape Town, South Africa] If all goes according to plan (and from past experience I know that it seldom does), our return flight from Portugal will land in Cape Town at 2 pm.