Today we stayed close to home, no driving around today. We biked for 3 hours through Sintra, taking in the hills, trails, and monuments. There's great mountain bike trails, road riding, hiking, and fire road type climbs. Our three hours of riding worked out to about 6 hours of time outdoors with all our little stops for photos and lookouts and little walks.
The area is well developed yet natural, and there's active forest management even in the park today. Lookout points are well trodden to, so it's easy to find rock outcrop to sit on and view the countryside.
We had dinner on the patio of a French restaurant, with great food and typical French restaurant service... reminds me that I'd rather do take-out from French restaurants and leave the waiters to themselves.
And just like that, our departure is getting a lot closer. I really enjoyed Portugal, it was such a pleasurable place to spend time, and now that I know where to focus in terms of what were my favourite cycling areas, it'd be easy to come back.
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