Hotel Braganca Coimbra
Largo das Ameias 10 Coimbra, Beiras, 3000, Portugal
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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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Wow - they knew Roman Numerals!
Lazy day, took our time getting moving, then headed off to Canimbriga just South of Coimbra to see the Roman ruins. If you're going there, check out the museum first to get a slightly better idea as to what went on there back then.
Went back ...
Eating snails
... short order- said it might be okay if they
didn't seem to be looking at him beseechingly with their tiny little
antennas poking up. I ate them- didn't want anyone calling me a
sissy! I really should have taken a picture. The poor little things.
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From Tears to Fado
... them a gruesome death. He then had Ines' body exhumed, dressed it in royal garments, had her crowned queen in a ceremony, and then had all of the members of court kiss the ring on her putrid hand. How's that for revenge?
We took another of travel author Rick Steves' self-guided walks around the old city, seeing plazas, medieval walls, churches, a cathedral where Pedro and Ines are buried, and large sections of the university. And we were ...
Travelling to Portugal
Barb's Notes:
It's been a long day, Almost 13 hours after boarding our coach this morning we arrived at tonight's accommodation. Not where originally planned but about 25 klms from Coimbra at the Melia Palacio Da Lousa Boutique Hotel. A majestic old palace, quite extraordinary.
Along the way we had several stops. The first at Avila an old walled city and we walked to the old Convent where St Teresa is ...



