Portugal...Kind Of

A couple of weeks ago my friends and I were getting a little stir crazy and decided to book some bus tickets for a daytrip somewhere. Unbelievable that you still get the travel bug when living abroad right? We heard amazing things about the Algarve coast in Southern Portugal and decided it would be nice to see another country. We booked some tickets to Ayamonte. One glitch. So apparently the coastal town of Ayamonte is actually on the border of Spain and not in Portugal. We made the best of the day and spent hours wandering around Ayamonte which actually turned out to be quite entertaining in itself. Oh but then we discovered you can take a ferry to Portugal. So we did that. We spent exactly 1.5 hours in the Portugese port town of Villa Real de Santo Antonio and although we can now say that we've been to Portugal, perhaps a second visit may be necessary to fully grasp Portugese culture. The lesson here? Always look at a map before planning excursions.