RoadTrip: Belmonte and Viseu
Nice trip mate, nice :-)It was kinda spontainous and was actually born from the fact, that most of the Polish planned a trip this weekend. We figuered that if we were to stay almost alone that weekend, we might as well take a trip ourselves. As we didn't want to go too far, the suggestions were limited to aurroundings of Covilha. Well, I was suggesting Salamanca, as it is actually just 200 kms from Covilha, is that a lot?! But the idea went down and we went to Belmonte and Viseu.
Belmonte is great. It's a small town, with an old castle on the top of a mountain. It is a birthplace of Pedro Alvares Cabral. Any of you know who this guy was? How about the man, who discovered Brasil? Why don't these names stay in the history books? :-) And the atmosphere in the town was great, it's full of narrow streets, old buildings, hills, grass, trees, small cafeterias, old people, and many other thigs that just build up the climate. I loved it!
Viseu was actually the main purpose of our trip, but I enjoyed it less then Belmonte. We've seen a castle and a cathedral in there, and that's basically all I can say :-)
And after that we decided not to take the highway back to Covilha, as it goes around. We took a small national road, that goes through the mountains. Hmm... Well it was a little scary. First of all, my poor Fiat didn't take this trip well. All the time it was climbing or descending, so it was terrible for him. And as for the way, OMG... It was completely dark, no lights whatsoever, and a fog, that limited the sight to about 5 meters :-/ Plus, of course just next to the road there was a steep cliff, everywhere we went. So it made the road really great. Imagine "Lost Highway", "Blair witch project" and "The wrong turn" together, and you have an image of how we've felt :-)
posted by Przemek @ 2:21 PM
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