After picking up our rental car at Europcar (a nice Peugot 107), we made our exit from Lisboa today quite gracefully, with only one small unintentional detour. We went straight north on N115, pausing for café e pastéis in Bucelas. Then we slowly worked our way north and east through some beautiful country, stopping for a very enjoyable lunch in Vila Chã de Ourique. Unfortunately, we neglected to note the name of the restaurant, which deserves a mention :-{
Later in the afternoon, we arrived at our residence for the next three nights - Quinta de Coalhos, near Pego. It is quite an amazing place, having only three rooms and a suite. We are currently the only ones in residence and so have all the common space to ourselves!
On the owners recommendation, we had dinner in Pego at O Cabaço. It was a great suggestion - we both had porco preto com migas. Migas is a wonderful thing. Our menu reader describes it as "bread cooked with well-seasoned ingredients to form a kind of omelette", but we think it was more like a giant dumpling. Either way it was great! For wine we had the 2004 Casal da Coelheiras which was very tasty and excellent value.
The weather was a very nice 2.5 today.
The main building at Quinta de Coalhos
The resident horses (just beyond our back door)
Enjoying a late evening Port in the sitting room
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