Tuesday 14 April 2009

Portimao

We visited the Algarve with a call at the big tourist-city Portimao. But as soon as the busses had taken us out of all this skyskrapers and shopping-malls, we explored a green country with some refreshing springrain ...
The coastline is typical with steep cliffs and low vegetation. We reached the southwesternmost point of europe shortly after our visit of Sagres, the famous little town, from where Prince Henry the Navigator sent out his fleets to find the waterway round Africa to the wealthy coasts of India in the 15th century.





The lighthouse at the end of europe ...