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Porto Slideshow
Porto
Travel Blogs from Porto, Portugal
Ahh this is the life
... impressive bridges. We programmed the Tom Tom and headed through the city relatively smoothly and over the massive bridge to a place called Porto Covo. We had read about this place in a motor homing book given to us earlier on the trip. It was supposedly ...
My Mummy is not on the boat!
... the hills were incredibly steep. We headed for a park for lunch and then down through the winding old streets of 'Old Porto'. The streets were lined with 4 and 5 story apartments with little balconies. These were crowded with washing plants and at times ...
3 day excursion - why not
only been here an hour and the bus driver almost killed us - but now safe and sound....interesting little ...
Porto
We crossed the border into Portugal and instantly it was different. The hills had a working feel and you could see all the crops, vineyards and steep hills with white dotted houses. Because our GPS was missing tolls we were very much taken the scenic ...
Day 306 – 309 : Potted in Porto
... transport which will get us to our next destination quickly and cheaply (mainly cheaply) – we made our first stop Porto. We arrived rather late, but were immediately in comfortable surroundings when we met our first Portugese CSers, M&M. We got ...
Interesting City and Miles of Golden Sands
We drove to Madelana about 8 kilometers from Porto. As we got near Jessica decided that she was no longer going to be our sat nav floozie and left us in the lurch in a narrow cobbled street. A kind passerby volunteered to accompany us out of difficulty ...
Porto
... . finally the ferry came and we were the only people/car on it, because it was the last one of the day. we arrived in Portugal into this really nice, deserted town. we took fun pictures before heading back for the drive to Porto. i ran out of beer 50km ...
Guiness World Record Set!
The rockets pictured with Jackie and Larry are NOT real rockets, but made great photo opportunities for the crowd of folks who came to see the fireworks. While the "official" food/beverage line was to long for words, Larry and I went to a local vendor ...
On the tide of Quinta dos Malvedos Vintage Port
... 1077;пременно окажемся в Porto. Без посещения Порто ...
Portugal
The first time I knew I was going to Portugal, I wondered what I would find in this country. Porto, the name of the old capital of portugal didn't click a single thought in my head. PHOTO_ID_R=img_1522.jpg] Life is a journey, a long ...
Sixth Leg.Porto Sant to Quinte de Lorde.
Tuesday 19th July. We left Porto Santo at 0945 after a relaxing 3 days with a new crew member. Mary the skippers wife flew out to do the next few hops with us down to Lanzarote and was pleased that there was another female on board. We ...
OK hands up we give up - Portugal here we come!
... and the usual! The sun was shining and we were all in good spirits. It was a wonderful drive over the mountains into Portugal, we drove through some very old villages, we even saw a man and woman with donkeys full of produce a typical Spanish scene ...
Metro, taxi or parking the car at the airport?
When we were arriving Porto we realized we had a choice to make. The first plan was to leave the car at my aunt's garage in Porto and then take the subway to the airport. However, time was running short and even if we managed to cath the first metro of ...
A Wonderful Life to Live - Porto, Pre-Build
... hearing some of our other teammates journey´s of 3+ connecting flights, I´m grateful for our overnight direct flight. We arrived at 8:30am Portugal time and took a cab to our hotel (we are 5 hours ahead of Toronto) We rode in the nicest cab I´ve ...
Porto - Beautiful!
Porto is a charming city on Portugal's north coast. The Duoro River meanders down through a valley of the same name and reaches the sea here in Porto. The city derives its name from being a sea port (duh), but then gives its name to the ...
Porto
... . That night we went to a nice thai restaurant for dinner. On saturday we caught a train to Averios about 1 hr away to find ceramics. BUT we found very expensive porcelain. And cost us a 20 euro taxi ride. We bothe really like Porto and has a great ...
Portugese scones with jam & cream..kind of
... as we'd heard how strict these guys were. But we were fine we put our heaviest things in our carry on and had no dramas. Once in Porto we got the train into town & checked in to a nice hotel. Accom is definitely cheaper here. It was about 4:30pm and we ...
Different car, different rallies...
Last day in the office before a 5-week absence, so too many things to do and too little time... Packing will be a late night affair... But the day started early with a pleasant surprise: when reading and answering my mail, first thing in the morning, I ...
First night of Fireworks
I could carry on about how fabulous the food is at the hotel, or I could complain about the silly traffic in downtown Porto . .but instead I will just drop a few photos of tonights show for you to see and get on to bed. I will probably update todays ...
Oporto plenty of work holes before Euro2004....
La visita a Oporto comenzò con una comida en un local tìpico de parrilla de la parte nueva de la ciudad.Despuès nos dirigimos hacia el parque del palacio de cristal.Un parque precioso con mucha vegetaciòn,fuentes y en su centro està el Pabellòn de ...
