Arcada Hotel Aveiro
Rua Viana do Castelo 4 Aveiro, Beiras, 3800-275 , Portugal
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Block Head???
Today was a short day planned with lots of free time to enjoy this part of coastal Portugal and hopefully the beautiful beaches. We left our castle in Porto heading south for the city of Aveiro. After an hour or so, we entered the area and followed the signs to the beach and its great sand dunes. Sadly, the weather was not really cooperating with …
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Fuga ao planejado
Hoje fugimos do roteiro planejado.
Mas foi uma escolha maravilhosa.
Nós resolvemos ir à Coimbra.
Como não estava nos planos rodamos a cidade toda para encontrar um hotel.
E por fim escolhemos o mais belo!
Fica num morro e tem uma vista linda!
aiai
Estou amando!
Hana
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From Tears to Fado
... Pedro's dad, King Alfonso, waited for the infatuation to end, but it didn't. After the legal wife had passed away and Pedro was poised to marry Ines, dad hired some men to kill Ines--and the dirty deed was done here on the property which is now our hotel. (Legend says that the spring that runs through the property sprang forth from the very spot where she was killed.)
Soon thereafter when Pedro became king, he tracked down the three killers ...
Travelling to Portugal
... for all the good works that she did back in the 16th Century. Our next stop was for lunch at Salamanca, which is a university city and we were taken to see the front wall of the University building and given the task of trying to find the frog amongst all the pictures on this facade. This frog is found in the souvenir shops all over the city and is quite a tourist drawcard.
During the afternoon another couple of short ...
Sun, Sand, and many many stares :)
... seashells to bring back as a souvenir :). The thing that caught me most by surprise was how much we (myself, Raven, and Quin) had gotten stared down while at this place. I thought I was used to getting stared at in Salamanca, but these people took it to a whole other level! We would catch women, children, and the old men -of course- staring as we walked toward them then actually ...
This hotel was formerly known as: Hotel Arcada



