The Portugal Plan

Being big fans of bicycle touring, like most other tourers we have "the list" and like others we're sure, the list has select reasons for each country on it. For us, Portugal was a natural extension of previous travels, particularly Brasil.
Having spent some time in Brasil we studied Brasilian Portuguese and thought we could have the best of both worlds continuing to learn while touring. We have since found that although the Portuguese can understand the Brasilian version, it is not necessarily the other way with Luso-Portuguese which has a Slavic sound.
Flights were arranged out of the local airport to Madrid and then on to Porto, paying 150 dollars each way for the bicycles! Feel free to do all cyclists a favor and complain every time you fly about bicycle charges. It'll get paid back in karma.
After heaps of discussion we will take our bike bags and chose Residencial Grande Rio, based on amongst other things, baggage storage. Here's to fingers crossed!
The plan is to stay in Porto for two days, then head down the coast, moving inland to Bucacao and Coimbra area. Back to the coast and down to Cabo Roca, Europe's farthest point west. Leaving the coast, we are considering to try to avoid Lisboa and head east to the medieval walled city of Evora. There is the thought of camping outside of Lisboa and busing in to indulge in one of our favorite travel past-times, walking in tourist areas with a daypack on that has mousetraps in it. Great fun and there is always a deserving soul out there.
Changing directions in Evora, we will head north up the mountain ranges that separate Portugal from Spain, through the Serra Estrella visiting the highest point in Portugal, the Torre, where we might find snow and will definitely find cold. Down the Douro River Valley, home of port wine, back to Porto. If we have time then we will loop from Porto up into the Minho via Guimares and back to Porto.
Our focus? World Heritage sites, cheese, Fado music, the famous breads, pastries and seafood of Portugal, maybe even some Madeira and Port and anything or anywhere that might come up.