Atel America Porto

It really is a shame we already booked our flight to France from Porto. We could have easily stayed an extra week in Portugal, there is so much to see here. But we did pretty good with our 2 days in Porto. It's right on the river and the ocean, and on one side of the river are tons of cute, old tiled homes, that look across to the other side of the bank where all of the old Port ...

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... city. Narrow streets tumbling down to the river with washing hanging from the windows. Lots of bridges, trams and traffic. One side of the river was the centre for the production of port. We went to one of them and sampled some of the product. <br><br>We stayed about 100 meters from the sea. Miles and miles and miles of golden sand and boardwalks. We did a lot of walking and a lot of cycling. Beautiful weather. We then moved onto Aveiro further down the coast.

We drove through the rain and Jessica (sat nav) took us up into the mountains. When she wanted us to do a sharp hairpin bend that was impossible with the caravan we had to carry on to a dead end in the road. As the rain got heavier we had to unhitch the caravan, turn round and rehitch and retrace our route. Unfortunately we did it very ...

... the better part of an hour looking for any restaurant that was opened. Our meals were : a tuna salad (a can of tuna, unrippened tomatoes and lettuce) and pork (a peice of pork, rice and french fries.) Long story short we were more then enthusiastic to get on the road in the morning to leave Porto behind

... along with!<br><br>Met Daniel (German), Maria (Portugese), Julia (Romanian), Stanley (Bulgarian), Dominica (Polish). Its an amazing athmosphere.<br><br>After having a chat with Gitau he took me to his university and showed me around, then I caught the metro from IPO to the other side of the bridge in the city. I walked down to the wine cellars and sampled some amazing Port wine (Porto hence the ...

... later I had a 1.5 liter bottle of water in my backpack. But they weren't done with me...the box of pastries they were sharing was on the counter and they insisted that this wayward traveler take one. I must have made a surprised look because one of them in a floral dress and white apron said in English, "is free, take." I couldn't believe the hospitality while I was enjoying that delicious pudding filled donut with them. I said my one word of Portuguese ...

... kisses when I show up. They had gone a river cruise of all the bridges in Porto. I tell them I'm going to the beach. They're shocked that there is one and I know how to get there. I tell them I just use public transport. OOOOoooo. They haven't grasped the concept of public transport in foreign countries. There loss. I get to the beach and fort and pay my fort entrance fee (1E). It's a nice view but honestly wasn't worth it. I meet this guy who's an amateur photographer. He ...

... with majestic views of the orange tiled roofs of traditional houses huddled together around narrow serpentine streets. When we reached the entrance of this extraordinary cathedral we found that there was a wedding about to take place. Being the silly little girl that I am, I begged Ed to stick around until the bride ...

... english, being in the old town in Porto was starting to get to me. I wasnt able to have a conversation with anyone but Christine or broken conversation with the hotel owner. So I booked the cheapest flight that I could - to Brussells, not sure how that was much better at the time, as they speak French there, but I figured being in a City and at a hostel then it would be a little bit better, there would be a few more people to meet.