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Porto Slideshow
Porto
Travel Blogs from Porto, Portugal
Nice old city by the river
... . Day 1 Arrived in town around lunch time and once again the hostel didnt have a sign. Wonder if this is a typical thing in Portugal or whether its just the hostels I picked. New the street but could find the number. More importantly I was looking for a ...
Day 22 - Porto
... five bridges tour which took us down to the river. From a distance, looking back across to the opposite riverbank, I could see why Porto is a world heritage site. It helped that the sun had come out and we were able to see it in all its ...
Porto Airport
... We left our car for a week in the airport's park - 30 euro. After the recent abortion of a terrorist plan in London Airport, we expected strict security control, but it was not different from previous trips. It's about 2 hours from Porto to ...
UK - Spain - Portugal
... 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 .... ...
Porto - home of Port
... I headed back to Ye Olde London town which is probably why I haven't much to report. With a little over a week in Portugal I doubt I did the country justice and only touched the surface. I hit the little hostel which was new and a little ...
Port, sweet port
Porto was the next stop, home of Port. This is the only region in the world able to produce the grapes in order to produce Port. The difference between the production of Port and Wine, is that the addition of brandy to the grapes stops their fermentation ...
Getting merry on port and sherry...
... around 500 steps up a church steeple and with an incredible view of the town's red rooves below. All highly receommended. Porto is beautiful, though aside from the distilleries, quiet. The beach is reportedly a 20 minute bus ride from the ...
The Quest for Propane - Part Two
... two new bottles. Then use them as sparingly as possible over the following weeks so that we could make them last through Portugal, Morocco and our return trip through Spain. Option 1 was far less unpleasant, though by no means ideal, since if ...
Porto - Love-O!
... rice, miso soup and some pickled turnip on the side J Christophe's Highlights: - Tours around the Port Wineries - especially Taylor Fladgate - Tram way ride by the river - My big ol' steak at Tosquina Next stop: Lisbon, ...
Novotel Porto Gaia
... the added aroma of cork - very nice. Daddy D told me that Eucalyptus are common in parts of Europe, including Portugal, Spain, Italy and Russia - they were imported from Australia for many reason, timber, drying wetlands and their oil. We reached ...
Porto O Porto
... and tones of 500 year old warehouses to house the Port wine in the cool breeze from the Atlantic Ocean. Another notable thing from Porto was the general state of disrepair of a lot of building. Many were collapsing on themselves. Quite a bit of poverty in ...
The Quest for Propane - Part One
... the house. The laundry situation, however, dictated otherwise. A quick bit of research and we were headed to Portugal's second biggest city, Porto, and a campsite with washers AND dryers. Porto also seemed a more likely place to have a propane ...
Off to the home of Port!
Leaving Lisbon to hit Porto, the birthplace of Port wine! Cruised the waterfront last night and there are seriously 10 to 15 port tasting rooms! The city is gorgeous as well, should be a good time ...
Seeing Europe for the first time
... map and other data like speed, altitude, outside temperature, etc. As we pass over the coast we can see we are over Porto, Portugal, then travel about 50 miles north of Madrid. We fly just south of Barcelona over the Mediterranean and approach the runway. ...
Porto
This one wins our spot of the trip so far. Beautiful City and well worth a visit even if just for a short city break. Perhaps one for a WAG's trip? Nothing to do with the fact that the sun came out for the first ...
New start
... place i am staying has the travellers-vibe...but when i woke up this morning all the people had left befor 7 o'clock....deja vu. Porto itself is very nice. Much nicer than i thought. And the prices in portugal are the best. It,s even cheaper then Spain. ...
Pollution in Porto
Kit: Today we left for Porto with Victor. It was a three hour trip and we were in the first carriage. When we arrived we booked into a hotel. Dylan: It was the first hotel we've stayed in that had elevators. Kit: Then we went to the river and we saw ...
Dylan gets drunk
Dylan: Today we went around wine-tasting. We went to nearly all the port producers. At the end of the day we were all drunk. Kit: I stayed at the hotel. Raymond's Travel ...
Ein Hoch auf die/den Azoren!
... in Nordamerika, dafür aber noch nie auf dem portugiesischen Festland... Diese "Abwendung" von Europa ist nicht ganz fair, denn Portugal füttert die Azoren mit Unsummen von Förderungen und auch die EU steuert zahlreiche Geldmittel bei. Kaum ein Ort auf ...
Just Gotta Go...
... but had a good walk around and some good photo ops, especially from the old citadel at the top of the city! A trip to Porto isn't complete without a tour of the Port cellars in town, which was awesome. Although we made the mistake of going to the ones on ...
Oh-Porto!
... the obvious, it is the home of port wine. You really need not know more than that. It is a beautiful, clean city set on Portugal's infamous hills right where the Duoro river meets the ocean. Once settled in the Star Porto inn, a trendy, hip and chic ...
G.M.O action in Porto
... in parlement and in public debate. If you want to know more about gmo actions in Portugal go to: www.eufemia.ecobytes.net During this weekend there will also be solidarity actions in Germany ...
As much fun as a leek in the head
... fireballs. Well into São João's day we straggled home, not a little overstimulated and reeking of sardines and onion. * Portugal is famed for its custards. Since medieval times the monasteries have been using egg whites to fine (drop the ...
Driving to Porto Airport
The drive to Porto Airport in the rain and with only one of the windshield wipers working properly (the other we'd ruined the day before tripping to Guimaraes and back) was a trip. Back to the grind of studing for my ...
Critical mass in Porto
... an hour and distributed some flyer's about the purpose of this happening. (more info on critical masses in Portugal: http://www.massacriticapt.net/ ) I stayed in Porto for four nights at Joao´s place. This was not really planned, but unlucky me.. I ...