Here we are, and the day is Saturday. We are still tired from the very long flight. We slept until 10am local time but did get up on time to have breakfast. We didn't want to spend a lot of time walking so Susan decided that we should go to a mall that she heard about. It is call the Freeport Designer Mall. Several hundred stores and many restaurants. So we took a taxi. It turned out to be about 30 or so kilometers. The taxi fare was €52 Euro's. Convert that to dollars and you get around $65 dollars.

Sunday we decided we should take a Grayline tour so we could get to Fatima.  Fatima is of course where the three children saw the Virgin Mary who gave them three secrets.

Leaving Lisbon, we drove northwards and arrived at our first destination: the beautiful walled town of Óbidos, with its picturesque streets and the Pousada do Castelo. We then drove to Alcobaça to visit the 12th century church with the tombs of Pedro and Inês de Castro.

For lunch, we went to Nazaré - The most colourful of all Portuguese fishing villages. We went to the Sitio to enjoy a panoramic view of the beach and the village.  An interesting part of this village is the women selling all kinds of nuts.  Not too expensive and fresh.

In the afternoon we visited the Batalha Monastery, a masterpiece of the Gothic and Manueline style considered a heritage of humanity by UNESCO.

Finally, we arrived at the Sanctuary of Fátima, the center of Christian faith and a local site of world pilgrimage, in order to visit the church where the tombstones of Lucia, Jacinta and Francisco are, as well as the Chapel of Apparitions- heart of the shrine.

At the end of the day we will return to Lisbon through the colourful farming region.