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Porto
Travel Blogs from Porto, Portugal
Ryanair - For my airline friends
... flight seemed to be Ryanair laughing all the way to the bank at €10 a pop for these scratchoffs. Right before landing in Porto the flight attendants were picking up trash for the third time and I heard all kinds of commotion and heated talk a few ...
Porto: relaxing and enjoying wine
... disfrutando de un vino (English version at the bottom) Pues me vine a dar una vuelta por el norte de Portugal, a Oporto (o "Porto" en portugués), la segunda ciudad más grande del país y conocida internacionalmente por los vinos que aquí se ...
Porto and its Bridges
29 September 2009 Arrived in Porto by "another on time Ryan Air Flight" from Barcelonaaaaaaaa to Porto, called my couch surfing host Gitau and woke him up and he told me the Metro stop near his place. Met him at his place, and it was so easy to get along ...
El Camino de Santiago
... it since he had walked it twice and really enjoyed it. I chose the Portugues route which begins in the city of Porto in northern Portugal and follows a more or less parallel path to the Atlatic coast for 232km, 139 miles, to the cathedral in ...
Port
... the boarder, nice and green and quite hilly. the bus dropped us off in the middle of nowhere it seemed, here in portugal they drop you at the front of their offices, apparently anyway. while fending away a pesistant taxi driver with only hostel address ...
I love Franceshina!!!
... in melted cheese and a tomato and beer sauce - I counted steak, ham, salami, sausage and pork in there. Soooo good!!!! I may never leave Porto... Walked around the old town and the cathedral. Porto is a real town. Not as busy as Lisbon with a lot of old ...
Valladollid - Porto
... rest area another free site (doing well in this department). Day six we cross the border into Portugal (another non event, no passport checks) and head to Porto where we get our first pay camping ground do some washing of clothes and ourselves .... Hot ...
Portugal!!!
They Said: We arrived in Porto, and since Alli is so smart (yes, this is a "They Said") and realized all the wineries were closed, we decided to hop the next train. To be continued in ...
I'm still speaking Spanish
... dirty and cruddy, like no care has been taken to attract visitors. It's unfortunate really. So far I've loved Spain and I thought Portugal would be similar - oh well I've got Lisbon to see yet. I slept in this morning and stuffed around a bit before ...
Just gotta go... Oporto!
It took me a while to find my way around porto's small but very confusing train station and into the city but i eventually made it and withing 2 hours of my train arriving i had found the very helpful tourist office. i walked through the big town square ...
Francesinha and Medieval Erotica. It Must be Porto
... we squeezed past a crowd-cum-queue of would-be diners standing patiently outside in the metre-wide alleyway waiting for a table. Porto, until now a place evoking memories of last season's promising start to the European Cup campaign, grabs you as soon as ...
Don't trust a Belgian flight attendant
... concrete cube with green glass rose above Stalinist style apartment blocks that made me feel like I was in Bulgaria rather than Portugal. A European woman with culture and style couldn't possibly lead me astray so I eagerly walked over to the ...
Oldy Worldy
Residencial dos Aliados Porto Portugal €59 per night w breakfast ensuite bathroom very nice good location friendly ...
Porto, Portugal
... first thing when we arrived. We were going to do some laundry, but apparently their are no laundrymats anywhere in all of Portugal. It is really frustrating because businesses in Europe close at really odd times. For example, the one(and I mean only one) ...
May 07, 2011
Travelling troubles
... now do a couple of blogs to catch you up. On saturday we left Lisbon on a slightly delayed train and went to Porto. Arriving in Porto we struggled to find our way to the city centre but eventually got there by some educated guessing (Inee meenee minee ...
more secret stairways
... by a french guy. I got a great lesson in port and tried alot of different kinds, so I am having trouble typing.....Porto is another beautiful old city on the Douro river, an old trading town. More old buildings built tightly together on steep ...
"Przękręty" w Portugalii
... w tym widowisku sportowym, którą zaobserwowaliśmy u panów kelnerów. Kolejnego dnia odwiedzilismy stadion FC Porto, piękny dworzec z charakterystycznymi kafelkami, kawiarnię, w której powstała pierwsza część ...
back to class
Okay so now I'm really behind. I was posting some pictures this morning and realized just how much work I have to do just to get them organized! Yikes! But I did get a few more posted. There's not really much to report for these boring class days ...
Oh, Porto
... be a little more relaxed than the Spanish and French, and a little friendlier to a non Portugese speaker. The weather has been bad through Portugal so far. Not one day was free of rain, but we managed to see a bit. It was good enough one afternoon to ...
Tapas, homecooking and Port wine
... not want to waste a day on the bus. Portugal is one hour ahead of Spain, so the local time was 5:45am when we arrived in Porto, Portugal. I could not check into my hostel until later, so we walked down the road to look for a park to sleep in for a few ...
No Port in Porto
... Murvi through the narrow cobbled streets with double parked cars on either side. We couldn't find any parking here so drove on to Porto, where we also had difficulty finding parking. In the end we decided to find a campsite and then get a bus into the ...
Porto
... rennen en vliegen, dus misschien steek ik hier nog wat van op! Ik zal proberen wat foto´s te plaatsen. Nog geen kiekjes van de camping, totaal vergeten. Die komen nog, maar eerst wat indrukken van Viseu en Porto. Groeten uit het warme Portugal! ...
Porto, Rock and Roll Festival
... the shade of a lovely tree and drift in and out of sleep. Ah its a tough life isnt it. So hows the office? ha ha! Porto was a relaxing time and was a really cool place to chill for a few days, exactly what was required after Ali´s cultural tour of ...
Porto
I was planning to only go to Lisbon in Portugal but I can still remember the look I got from the Paraguayan guy when I told him I was only in Paraguay for a day. So I decided not to insult the Portuguese by seeing more than just Lisbon. First stop Porto. ...
Fiat Lux
I finally had time to post some photos, from Guimarães, where I bought the camera, to València. See them at: tinyurl.com/2ka4c4 Photos and stories from Porto coming soon. Update: the link is now ...
Porto and 'ciao' to Europa
... down, as I am buzzing with the excitement that we are about to head to South America, at last!!! I don't want to forget Porto though. Sorry for the notations. Cam and I arrived and checked into the hotel his folks booked for us. We then figured out ...
Country no. 17
Well here I am now in country number 17, Portugal, I arrived late last night in Porto and then managed to sleep in about 3 hours after I'd hoped to get up this morning so I haven't seen as much as I probably should have so far but what I've seen so far ...
Porto
... days, this temperature make the trip unpleasant. Bur apart from this the travel in the northern Portugal was delicious. After a quickly drive (2 hours) we reached Porto, from Vila Real. The plans is to stay only one night and visit the ...
Eye for an eye
Time to go. But before that, time to say my goodbyes. Goodbye to the city, said by finally going to the Porto wine cellars which I had managed to somehow miss for the five previous months (and sharing two bottles with Matthias and his friend Andres); ...