Wes' Tr6 Bits

Recently a short trip to Portugal. Read numerous remarks about treacherous driving there. We rented a Mercedes 220 D van for the five of us and our luggage.
Leaving Lisbon bound for Coimbra, then on to averiobn, and Serr Buccaco forest, finally for Porto via a stop in Lamego....

Driving is different and for first few moments daunting... but you on on same reoads the locals travel, you get used to it. In the cities and towns there are fewer four way intersections, there are many merging roads,
some roundabouts.
They do have fantastic traffic jams at certain hours in the towns/cities...
yet also in my view more tolerance, all sharing the misery as opposed to wanton horn use and rage against fellow beast in adjacent cage.
Entering Coimbra via small bridge... a series of logjams and merges,where we take traffic lights as a given, none...you expect police on tarmac to direct traffic flow, none... yet it works out.

I saw all of one aftermath of accident, a motorcycle on the ground... and
two LBC (Green MGB, yellow GT6) Coimbra if I remember right, the LBCs not involved in accident...they might have been part of some tour as they appeared at same time...
The highways in that part of Portugal we drove... very fine, very open.
One must remember Portugal is small in land area .Three if them would fit inside California, they have a quarter of Calif population, more than half huddled around two main cities.

Roughly 10 million population, 10,000,001 tourists added..
if you have time, a little kernel of courage, it is driveable...
and largely very beautiful ... it Is possible to get lost in country
if turning off main roads seeking a more picturesque ride to destination...
had I insisted on that tact Lamego to Porto, I’d still be there...seeking my way.