Today was a long day driving. We moved from Porto to a beach town just south of Lisbon. Lisbon is a difficult place for campers, there are only two campgrounds, one has some of the worst ratings I have seen on Park4night, and the other is located about 20 kilometers from the city. We are at the one far out from the city.
The drive down was about 4 hours on a good Autopista. Before departing Vila Cha we filled up with gas and made a stop at Lidl for groceries. We weren’t on the road until nearly noon, so we arrived at the campground a little late. Our German neighbors came over and gave us a quick briefing on Lisbon and turned over their transit passes that will save us 50 cents when we get to the ferry. We were sitting chatting when the wife came over telling us something in German that had her very excited. I went over and looked at her phone, and learned that the new pope was American. She thought it was funny that we were American in an European campground and the new pope was also American.
Later we walked down to the waterfront which was very interesting. It looks like in the 1990’s someone spent a lot of money trying to develop this area as a beach resort. There were roads to nowhere. Street lights lining the roads to nowhere that have not worked in years, and two large abandoned campgrounds. Someone built a nice boardwalk that is still being used by bicyclists, the boardwalk was lined with buildings intended to be restaurants and tourist shops that are mostly empty, though a couple of restaurants are hanging in. It reminded me of some of the old communist infrastructure we saw in Eastern Europe.
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