The Travelling Colemen

Winter 2012/2012

For several years now we have spent the winter out of UK, and we can't imagine staying home during the cold months. This is a blog of our current stay

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Happy New year

1/1/2013

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Lots of New Years Eve events here in Portugal, firework displays feature heavily as do certain traditional foods such as bacalao and verde sopa after midnight.


Earlier this year we had found a new aire on the eastern side of the country near the Guadiana River so we spent last night there where, for a modest sum you could join in a New Years feast.
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The aire at Almada D'Ouro
There was so much food and drink we failed to stay the course and left fellow motorhomes from Germany France and Austria as well as locals to see the New Year in and get that traditional New Years soup. The moral of this tale is to prepare better (ie don't eat that day) and to pace yourself through the many courses- including the soup at the end there were six bumper courses.
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17/9/2023 09:13:24 pm

Appreciate this blogg post

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