One Day in Faro: Best Things to Do, See and Eat
“Faro was built to confuse you,” declared our tour guide. The streets by the marina had certainly done that last night as I’d tried to find an ATM for the taxi at 11pm. Apparently taxi drivers don’t accept card or contactless here.
“The Romans and Moors people built it that way to confuse intruders, and it worked.”
Our tour guide took us to the entrance to the citadel and regaled the story of a princess falling in love with the head of the opposition. She told him to meet her for a tryst in the tunnels under the city, which was wonderful news to him. Tunnels? Under the city? Long story short, he told his army and they invaded, and took the city as theirs. No beautiful love story there, unfortunately.
Anyway, our tour leader Bruno’s story gave some scope to the winding nature of the city, and the fact that when you’re in the centre, nowhere is actually that far apart. At home I’m slowly making my way through Game of Thrones for the first time and the walled, winding cobbled streets felt disturbingly familiar.