Portugal - Peniche

On our next day in Portugal, we decided it would be worth it to head up to Porto to visit my friend Pete, which was kind of one of the original reasons we were going to Portugal anyway.

But, since we were on our spring break, we really wanted to stop at a beach along the way. We ended up finding a town called Peniche to stop at. We could take a bus from Lisbon to Peniche, spend a couple of hours there, and then take a bus up to Porto.

Our journey started in the morning, where the girl working at the hostel informed us it would be better to go to the Oriente Station, quite a ways away from where our hostel was. Since there were two stations in Lisbon, I wanted to make sure we were going to the right one. She assured us we were.

Annie and I got to the bus station with plenty of time to spare, but looking around, we couldn't find the bus line we needed to take. Asking where those buses went (in my Spanish with what I think is a Portuguese accent), we found out that we actually had to be at the other bus stationon the other side of town. Clearly we weren't gonna make it.

We ended up slowly making are way over to the other bus station to catch the next bus. We stopped on our way to buy some awesome sunglasses and snacks for the day.


[Awesome new sunglasses. Very cheap too]

When we finally got to Peniche, we ended up at a very strange bus station in the middle of an industrial section of town. But the beach was only a five minute walk, and that's all we wanted. We made it there and it was gorgeous!


[beach in Peniche]


[Annie, unlike me, was very brave and actually went into the water. If we squinted we could see the US on the other side of the Atlantic]


[Nothing like that Portuguese sunshine to make our problems go away...]


[Town of Peniche jutting out into the ocean]


[Annie and I enjoying sunshine and clemetines on the beach]


[Jumping for joy on the BEACH in FEBRUARY!]

Although we were only in Peniche for a couple of hours, it was definitely relaxing and worth a little stop over. Absolutely fabulous to be at the beach again!