Our Rick Steve's tour doesn't start until Wednesday so we took a day trip to Sintra since the tour doesn't go there. Sintra is a mountain resort town about 30 miles from Lisbon along the Atlantic coast. The King Ferdinand decided to use Sintra as his summer home and built a palace there. The rich guys came along with him and built a few palaces of their own. Sintra was the home of the palace el Pana built on the ruins of a Moorish palace.
After a couple of palace visits to see old furniture our guide Jaime took us to Quinta-Regaleirais the site of the 'Initiation Well', a site of cultist initiation events and mysticism from the Knights Templar. I won't say how much of a climb it was to get up the the place but my Google Fit app thinks I'm Superman.
We said goodbye to Sintra and proceeded along the Atlantic coast to the what is the farthest West point of Europe according to Jaime. We didn't tell him that Dingle in Ireland is really the farthest (but not on mainland Europe). It is usually very windy there but today was an exceptional day of wind as you can see.
Back to Lisbon in search of dinner we found a nice Tapas place.
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