Steve Carr

Pretty much everybody we talked to who had visited Portugal said Porto was the best city, way better than Lisbon.

We continued north on the trusty A1 highway for an hour to Aveiro. Aveiro is a city in central Portugal,

It was an hour’s drive north from Surfville Nazaré to Fatima, the Catholic Disneyland, where we had only about three

Óbidos is a picturesque, medieval walled town in Portugal, located about an hour from Lisbon. It is known for its

We checked out of our Lisbon Hotel and rented a small Citroën SUV from SIXT, a German company with an

The mountain-top town of Sintra is effectively a 19th-century fever dream brought to life — a misty, candy-colored playground where

Captain Jose and his first mate Tiago welcomed us to the LisbonByBoat sunset cruise at the shiny, slick Belem Marina.

If you want to put your life on the line and balance on a two-wheeled razor’s edge in a foreign

The All Saints Day earthquake of 1755, with a magnitude of 8.6, still defines Lisbon. Locals often talk about it