{"id":213,"date":"2025-09-09T18:20:48","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T18:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.540lab.com\/?p=213"},"modified":"2025-09-09T18:20:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T18:20:48","slug":"portugal-day-five-lagos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/540blog.com\/?p=213","title":{"rendered":"Portugal Day Five: Lagos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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15:03:37 05\/02\/2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This morning we left Lisbon.  We got an UBER from the airport to the hotel to pickup our rental car.  We were expecting to get a smaller vehicle, a Citroen 380, a hatchback.  The guy we had at the desk had a hard time with his systems, the card reader would not work, the tech guy came out and I think that because he took a lot of our time he gave us an upgrade to a luxury SUV, well luxury its a French SUV, a DK Crossover Series 7.  Krista says it drives nice on the highway, but not like our car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We took our time driving down, we got off the main highway and followed the coast line for a while.  There was nothing difficult about this drive at all.  Krista driving and me navigating works best for us, neither one of us gets stressed out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We stopped for a quick lunch in Sines, and then drove the winding road through the country side, and some short distances along points where we could see the ocean.  I was hoping for more of a shoreline drive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We arrived in Lagos around 3:00pm, found the hotel without issue.  Krista has us booked in a small resort, where its more like cottages, just attached.  We each face the main walkway, have our own little front porch with a table and a couple of chairs so we can take in the nice weather.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking of weather, its cloudy here today, at about 17\u00b0C, and the wind is blowing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once we got settled we took a walk down to the point where we can look out over the Atlantic ocean back home, or toward Lagos to see the town.  There are also a number of nice beaches along the shore here, all walking distance from our little resort.  Beaches will be explored tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tonight we’re going to take a walk down to where we can access one of the beaches to take in the sunset, somewhere around 8:00pm.  Then we have a reservation for dinner at one of the hotels that has a restaurant on its roof top terrace so we can over look the town, ocean, beaches and all that Lagos has to offer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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