hi all,

sorry for the silence ... but we booked our holiday in portugal :)

friday we will arrive in cascais where we will stay for 2 weeks!
looking very much forward to it :)

got any tips and must-do's or dont-do's ?

we are now reading the lonely planet :)

Gabriel Almeida: Thanks! That would be great

just visited the travel agency again ... we now have 3 options :

http://www.vilabicuda.com/en/vila-bicuda.html
http://www.vilagale.pt/pages/hoteis/?hotel=11
http://www.hotelcidadela.com/en/

Vila Bicuda seems a bit too much, but has a terrace with the room
Vila Gale is more in the centre but seems a bit large
Cidadle seems outdated and maybe less maintained but is in the centre

do you know any of these ? any opinions about them ? ;)

Gabriel Almeida: thats the type of vacation we used to do (and travel a lot during the vacation as well) .. but i dont see that happening with a baby ... we dont want to be confined to our hotel room while she is doing her nap during the day .. thats why we are looking for a vacation home where we can sit outside while she sleeps (and read a book or a dive in the pool, my gf isnt the sunbathing type)

ideal would be to find a vacation home inside lisbon

ideal would be to find a vacation home close to some restaurants so we can walk to the restaurant and walk back with my daughter in her buggy .. or a very short trip by car .. or by rent bike with a childs seat :)

those are ideals though ... so in real life there will be some compromises

personally i think we can do more and find out on the way (trial and a lot of errors) .. but my girlfriend is a bit more cautious :)
(also in her taste of food ;))

how far to the north (kilometers) would we have to go for a royal meal ? ;)

i will definetly let you know when we come ... lunch sounds great! i love local food!

Gabriel Almeida: the fame of lissabon reached us as well :) that's why we want to stay close to it

Do you know http://www.vilabicuda.com/
Do you know if there are any restaurants nearby ?

We will probably take the public transport to visit lissabon and rent a car to visit other places but we would like to walk (or ride bike) to the restaurant

Before we had vacations to Cuba, India, China, Costa Rica, Egypt, etc
Now we have our daughter who will be 14 months by then, so this will be a totally different vacation with lots of trial and errors :)

Darles Chickens: lissabon will be the main goal of our visit as well as some authentic villages and nature (not much sunbathing) ... coimbra is a famous name which we might visit but it might be a bit too far ... depends on the mood of our daughter (then 14 months old) :)

Do you know http://www.vilabicuda.com/

Our travel agency recommends and it looks great but we wonder if there are any restaurants in walking distance

We are very much interested in restaurants
I eat everything and love foreign cuisine, my girlfriend is a vegetarian
Here in the Netherlands we spend about 80 euro we go out for dinner with the 2 of us (btw we don't drink wine or other alcoholics) .. I guess in Portugal that would be about 65 euro ?

Sorry for not writing this in Portuguese, I don't know how to write that yet

I have a question : my girlfriend and I and our daughter of 1 year old are planning to spend our summer vacation in Portugal.
We want to visit lissabon as well as some authentic portugal
Ideal would be a holiday home so our daughter can sleep and we won't be confined to a hotel room, as well as being within walking distance of some restaurants .... abdomen of course close to lissabon :)

Maybe we are asking too much ... but maybe its possible :)

Does anyone have any tips ? :)

How is cascais ?

Again : sorry for writing this in English