Over many years of traveling to and within Europe, I have become a big fan of spending an increasing amount of time on my trips in the “B” cities and towns rather than dedicating all of my time to the major centres. Portugal has two “A” cities if you’ll allow me to use that expression – Porto and Lisbon – and while I enjoyed both of those cities, my most fond memories from two weeks in this beautiful country were from the time we spent in Nazaré.

In plotting our Portugal itinerary, it was my wife who initially picked out this town as a stopping place. Seeing it perched on the Atlantic captured my imagination. Renting an apartment with a view over the ocean made me giddy with anticipation.

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