Parque de Campismo da Costa Nova Aveiro

We arrived without incident after a short and pleasant journey. Odd campsite mainly permanent encampments! Most of them looked like they had been there for many years. We were entertained by families arriving over the weekend to pack up for the winter. They cleared out all the rubbish that they had accumulated over the summer. They then covered their caravan.awning and covered area with tarpaulin and tied it down and put stones ...

Aveiro is a sweet little coastal town with great long white beaches for surfing and nice flat rivers for kiting. Jon got out kiting our first day there but unfortunately squeezed way too much Vaseline in his new bindings to really enjoy his ride. He was kiting in storm winds on our smallest kite, so no kiting for me. The surf was insane that day and no one was in the water. It kind ...

... in their catch everyday. We're going to drag one of their finest home to cook up soon. Being the adventureers we really are, we specifically chose to stay in a small village so we could really experience the real Portuguese lifestyle. How small is this town where we ended up? Hers's some examples: 1- they still put the railway crossing down by hand, 2- you have to walk 10 minutes to ...

... hours in which my host in Porto, José Martins, and I struggled to meet each other. I would have a number of such instances as Satan was really attempting to destroy the success of this trip, but God always intervened. I observed the Sabbath on April 4 in the home of José Martins, who is a long-standing member, and his family, namely his wife, Rosa ...

It's to happen. We missed our train to Porto so we are waiting for the next one wich is at 6.17. That meas we will have to take a taxi to get to airport before 8 not to loose the plane. Hope that we won't have more things like that... Anyway, we are ready, we are packed leaving in 20 min.

There are only two days left for our trip. It seems that for half of it I am going to travel alone as my french friend needs to come back to write an exam. We didn't found any accomodation in Frankurt and in Rome so we are going probably to stay in a hostel (still working on it). Anyway we've been already lucky so we cannot be in a whole :) ________________________ Music: Elsa Soares - Mas que nada

It's seems that we are lucky. Today we got a response from girl in Bratislava so still need just two places to stay. Hope we will find them as quick as this ones :) What is more I'm now trying to get some informations in the internet about places which we should see. As I wrote before we won't use any guide besides ones in real. Music: Camiel - Take me to this place

Portugali Veneetsia? Vähemalt nii seda kutsutakse, kuigi, olgem ausad, päris Veneetsia on ikka..Veneetsia :) Kuigi tõepoolest on seal mõni kanal, kuid see on ka ainuke paralleel Päris Kanalite linnaga. Aveiro oli vanasti üsna tähtis sadamalinn, kuid 1570ndatel kannatas ta suure tormi all, mis blokeeris jõesuudme, mistõttu laevad ei saanud enam ookeanini välja sõita. Järgmised ...

... next destination random. After a really short time a truck driver stopped, headed for Porto. It was not the time for me to go back yet, so I hopped in, asked for his route, took out my map and chose, with his advice, a point to drop off. I still had to walk 7 km along the road to the town of Tomar, which has a very interesting monument (which is also in the UNESCO world heritage list) - the Convent of Christ. The town seemed to be nice, but among the random showers I ...

Well, those ski teamers at home know how much fun road tripping is. It was a breeze getting a van load to drive over 4,000 miles to California! But trying to convience 4 non-skiteam friends to rent a car with you and drive to Portugal for the sole purpose of wine tasting and a few good stories was a bit challenging! But.. I succeeded. After a typical Thursday night of discotecas and 100% no sleep I went straight to the car rental place and ...