Grande Hotel Bom Jesus Braga

... are. The distilleries were surprisingly accessible, with all of them offering tours of the caves and tastings, for a fee of course. We were only able to visit a couple (Porto seems to close for 2 hours during lunch) before catching our evening flight out, but we are glad to have tried some new and very interesting kinds of port. Thank you Portugal, we will be back to see more.

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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.

... without the normal care and as we were going along we suddenly realized that the caravan had become detached. Fortunately the breakaway cable had worked. We reversed and reattached her, no harm having been done. We then had to do a 50 mile detour to get to the camp site. We spoke to other camper and caravaners who had had great ...

... 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

Een gevaarlijke haven volgens de Nederlanders die hier al 5 jaar liggen met een Etap 32: de mensen zijn aardig en het is niet al te duur: je blijft er zo maar liggen. Ze konden zo nog een aantal mensen aanwijzen waarbij dit was gebeurd. Wij hebben ook nog geen neiging weg ...

Here is a picture of Donna that I would be avle to take every day that we are traveling to another city.............as you can see she is an avid sightseer!!!!<br><br>Also attached is todays daily explosion...................IS it getting worse or better?????

Guess this is the wind down point after two months on the road before 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 inexperienced at it as they had quality ...

... and has some very high bridges running over it which look pretty cool. The town is similar to the other oldish European towns we´ve been to, perhaps a little dirtier and rundown than Madrid or Salamanca, but definitely a lot nicer than Marseille or even the town in Nice (disregarding the beach). A few big differences though - the Portugese language (duh) which I have absolutely no idea of (still not sure how to say thank you properly), there are no ...

... around outdoor charcoal grills outside homes and restaurants. The smell of São Joäo's traditional food, barbequed sardines, makes the city smell like fish salting plant. When a suitable quantity of charred fish and libation has been taken people begin to conv**ge on the public stages in family groups or gaggles of friends or couples of tourists. Ev**yone is armed with the necessary accoutrements to mark the celebrations - a squeaky plastic hamm** or a leek. When the bands ...