I was excited and looking forward to receiving the first official guest of my career break year, albeit the same person who accompanied me in getting out to Spain as part of my 18-19 annual leave and so therefore at that time not quite career break companionship material. I had determined from Park4Night primarily that the best place to park would be P3 official car park at the airport, and best to book in advance online, which I duly did. In driving primarily on non-busy roads for the last few weeks, it was abit of a jolt to find myself driving through the chaos of the approach roads to Lisbon Airport, around various spaghetti junctions, on red alert as I negotiated the traffic and managed to arrive amazingly at P3 at 12:20, when my booking was for 12:15 for 3 hours. In the end, whereas the driving had not thwarted me, getting the car park exit barriers to honour my pre-paid parking was beyond my guest and I, so we duly paid a 2nd time for the privilege of being 2 mins away from the arrivals terminal. Decision made to head for the Parque Natural da Arrabida, past the town of Setubal, south of Lisbon, to stay there for one night to visit some more beautiful coastline before basing ourselves at Cascais, north west of Lisbon for our visits to the capital and Sintra.
The beaches and coastline of this area are indeed beautiful, well worth visiting and we stayed at a really nice, recommended good value small campsite just beyond Setubal – Ecoparque do Outao.
Praia do Creiso 
