Vacations in Viana do Castelo, Portugal

by George Wylie
(Montral)

I have a big people family living and working across Canada. As we like to be all together in the summer we use to rent a villa somewhere.
This year we went to Viana do Castelo, a great town in the North of Portugal, http://www.cm-viana-castelo.pt/.
We rented a big house nearby, Quinta do Bento Novo, a perfect house for big families http://www.quintabentonovo.pt/. We stood there for two weeks.
It is a big kind of historical yet modern, cozy house with six bedrooms, large gardens for children and a huge kitchen: perfect for us.
They have a lot of small yet important things to spend a wonderful vacations: great breakfasts with typical bread and natural orange juice, a large tank with a running natural source of water where children spent their days, free internet and safe parking, huge barbecues outside the house, and a lot of other things.
They even have a very good cooker which has prepared very good typical local meals for us.
Nearby there are a lot of great places to visit, Viana do Castelo, Ponte de Lima, Braga, Guimarães, a lot of historical cities of Portugal.
Besides all that the owners are really nice people!