Portugal Trip Review: History, Culture, Food, Wine, Sheepherder Visit, 3-Week Trip

The trip was perfect and exceeded our expectations!
This is the third trip we have had coordinated through Zicasso and it was the best! For 21 days everything we did was perfectly coordinated! We had great and very knowledgeable drivers/guides throughout our trip and enjoyed every minute with them! Our goal, as expressed to the travel agent, was to "know" Portugal after 21 days. We wanted to experience the country, their food, their wine and their people... a tough goal for many travel agents who look at tourists who only want to see a few sights and shop. We did not want the tourist experience, we wanted to be immersed in history and culture, we wanted to experience food and wine in each part of the country and experience the overall feeling of the country. We received all of this and more!
For example, at one point, I wanted to meet a sheepherder and see him with his sheep... so our guide, during that portion of our trip, coordinated a visit to a sheepherder on the fly! That was a very memorable part of the trip for me... and I appreciated it very much! The travel guides who were with us knew from each other that I could not walk very far (I used a cane and tried to get around as best as I could), so they made sure that they drove me as far as possible with the car so my walking needs were minimal... Everyone was FANTASTIC!
The travel Agents (Filomena and Jorge) were EXCEPTIONAL! Everything we needed was taken care of... they even provided us with free Internet connectivity as we traveled. They coordinated the best trip we have ever been on... Just Fantastic!