On the second day in Portugal we decided to explore the surrounding of Lisbon. The first stop was Cascais, which took the opportunity to purchase the required items to the rest of the trip in Decatlhon (prices are much better than in Brazil).

Cascais is a seaside village located 38 km from Lisbon where it has beautiful beaches as you can see in the pictures.

We left Cascais walking along the seaboard and stopped at Estoril for a little rest.

We took the train and went to Bethlehem where we went through the monuments: Monument of the Discoveries, Belem Tower and Jeronimos Monastery. Here of course we ate the so famous "Pastel de Belém" and liked so much. It really is very tasty.

We can certainly say that the weather is fantastic in Fatima and we're not talking about if it is hot or cold. We are talking about the enormous energy of this place. We feel really welcomed here.

The village of Fatima belongs to the municipality of Ourém and is about 1hr and 30min by bus from Lisbon. The sanctuary annually receives nearly 4 million pilgrims. Even a week before our arrival, Pope Benedict XVI visited the sanctuary and prayed Mass for thousands of faithful.

We reached the city late in may, 19 and chose a hotel right near the bus station and just 300 meters from the church. We were very well received and we had a great treatment.

After a shower we walked to the church and we feel that this is truly a blessed place. We participate of the Rosary and candlelight procession. It is beautiful to observe, when men gather to pray the differences in languages disappear, each mystery was recited in a language (English, Portuguese, French, Spanish and Italian) and followed for all without any problems.

We talked bye to Portugal in a big style. Just left Porto after delighting us with the tasting of exceptional wines. We know the cellars where the wines are stored in barrels for several years. We found that the sweet taste of port wine is due to the process of stopping the fermentation of grapes to the 3rd day with the addition of brandy, this process causes the grapes sugar remains in the wine.

When we got to town we went straight to the hotel which was only 1 block from the road. We took a shower and went to walk the neighborhood. At first we found the city dirty and very old. We can say that Porto is prettier at night than during the day, the buildings are quite old but the night lights make them charming.

We were at a restaurant very simple .. near the hotel and ask for a codfish. This is a wonderful dish and serves as two people (the only two pieces of fish occupied a dish of our traditional dishes). It was served with very crispy skin fried and accompanied vegetables, onion and plenty of olive oil. A delight! That was one of the things that charmed us in Portugal.We ate very well.We also had our experiences with the "canned" McDonald's and Subway, but the typical Portuguese food is very close to ours and had no eating disorder.

Not so nice moments also occurred in Porto.Starting from our hotel to the second site booking.com had reported that the Internet are available in rooms.When we try to connect .. Guess what .. only available in the hotel lobby and it was too bad. To update the site had to stay in the hallway near the lobby for "we take" sign on the Internet. After the morning we decided to get pass that sightseeing bus which we always see in movies. Good. this was a terrible experience. We will speak more of it in our podcast.