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Happy New Year

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Pink Monkey would like to wish every a very Happy New Year

New For 2014

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Fado Show and Group Meal Fado is a typical Portuguese music genre that symbolises loss and longing. The essential element of fado music is “saudade,” a Portuguese word that translates roughly as longing, or nostalgia for unrealized dreams. Enjoy this delight on your Lisbon Hen Weekend What's included: 3 Course meal Aperitive, digestive and covert included  Fado show starts at 9.00pm  1/2 Bottle of wine per person  Coffee included  Available Lisbon  Portuguese Cooking Lesson Experience the joys of cooking traditional Portuguese food and have the pleasure of eating your creation. The Portuguese love food and your hen party can take away some new receipes and impress your friends and family when you return home. What's included: Prepare, cook and eat a traditional Portuguese 3 course meal  Wine and coffee included  Glass of Port  Discover the variety of flavours and tastes of the best that Portugal has to offer  Avai...

Algarve Fun Facts

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Cheap flights from UK and only 3 hours away! 100 Miles of beautiful sandy beaches are often sheltered by small cliffs such as those in Vilamoura and where you can sun yourself in pretty little coves and take a refreshing dip in the warm Atlantic Ocean, enjoy the fantastic beaches on your Hen Weekend in Albufeira, Surfers love the beaches close to Lagos and Sagres. Near to Albufeira at Praia da Gale, the beaches are popular with windsurfers and watersports are freely available just about everywhere during the summer months, perfect for your Stag Weekend in the Algarve The Algarve has an area of 2,089 square miles and around 130 miles of coastline,  The Algarve has over 3000 hours of sunshine a year, so ladies top up your tan on your Vilamoura Hen Party, The climate in the Algarve is dry and clear and it rarely gets too hot as cooling breezes off the Atlantic take the edge off the heat. But don't forget your sunscreen you do not want to get as pink as Monkey!!  ...

Monthly Events in Lisbon

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February Lisbon Carnival The small cobbled streets of Lisbon come alive during Carnival with excited party goers. The city holds  a number of free events across the city, the highlight is the Carnival Parade on Shrove Tuesday, featuring dazzling costumes, samba bands and floats on show in downtown Lisbon. May Out Jazz in Lisbon – May to September Out Jazz marks the arrival of summer. Out Jazz is a series of free open-air concerts in the city’s beautiful parks, taking place every Friday and Sunday they include live music and DJs, it’s a fantastic  free outdoor party.
 Rock in Rio 2014 marks Rock in Rios 10th anniversary in Lisbon. Every two years, Rock in Rio comes  to Lisbon as one of the biggest music festivals in the world. Headlining in 2014 are so far Arcade Fire and  Justin Timberlake.  The festival has a strong focus on creating awareness about environmental issues. June Festas de Lisboa (Lisbon Festivities) – 1-30 June is the mon...

Lisbon Fun Facts

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Lisbon is actually older than Rome!  According to some historians around 4 centuries older making it the second oldest European capital, the first being Athens  Lisbon’s landmark icon, the Torre de Belém, was just a …    a customs office, although it did start out as a defence tower it has also been a jail, a lighthouse and also a telegraph post. Its the most attractive telegraph post Pink Monkey have seen!   The Tagus is river is Iberia's largest  At up to 14Km wide, is said to be large enough to contain all the warships in the world.  Pink Monkey cannot arrange warships but we can arrange a yacht hire on the Tagus for your Lisbon Stag Weekend or Lisbon Hen Weekend. Lisbonians like to bath naked!  OK maybe not in this century but in previous centuries, one local tradition was for the (daring) people of Lisbon to take their weekly baths by descending the steps of the Praça do Comércio to bathe nude in the river, causi...