Nazare, Portugal - The Home of the 100 Foot Wave!, Nazare, Portugal

Have you heard of Nazare? We hadn’t but we both had seen a video on youtube of a surfer who won the 2018 Ride of the Year award there. A flick through our facebook feed showed the most spectacular waves and a guy just a dot in the sheer immenseness of the water but managing to negotiate it with amazing expertise nonetheless. Neither of us are surfers ourselves but we can completely appreciate the skill involved and were in awe of this video we saw. Imagine our excitement when we realised a town near to us was where it was filmed. We had to go and check it out!

Nazare is under two hours away from Lisbon and we had an easy bus ride here with Redeexpressos, costing €10 each and taking just under 2 hours. We booked accommodation through Airbnb at Quartos Vila. The accommodation was nice and suited our needs but like a lot we seem to have encountered recently there was quite the hill to walk with our backpacks to get there. Also it was a hell of a walk downhill to the town but even worse back up and to make matters worse there was no Uber here. Not the fault of the property though it just seems to be Portugal in general and we had a sea view of sorts.

Nazare itself is a lovely little town with loads of restaurants and shops and a nice beach. The main attraction here is clearly the waves but actually even if that wasn’t your thing the town itself would be enough to occupy you for a few days. One thing we had noticed in Portugal but more so here was that there is a significant lack of corner shops just to grab those essentials you need. It was quite a walk to our local Spar and due to the amount of people there were some significant queues just to get in. Stocked up for the next few days we were ready to explore what Nazare had to offer. ...... (follow the instructions below for accessing the rest of this article).