Hotel Das Taipas Guimarães

... 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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... We arrived safely thanks to these total strangers. He advised us not to take the caravan into Porto.<br><br>The next day we went on the bus to Porto and discovered why. The 8 kilometer journey took about an hour as the bus travelled in ever decreasing circles through streets normally impassable to a bus without the use of a horn and the assistance of disgruntled lorry and car drivers who had to backup. On arriving in Porto feeling shaken and stirred we discovered a ...

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

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?????

... the town erupted into a party! I'd been pretty lucky with this sort of stuff with Spain and Thailand, so I couldn't complain too much - but I'm also sad to miss a party!<br><br>I really recommend the The Yellow House Hostel if you ever go, they have kittens to boot and was a really chilled hostel getting on its feet. Onward to London to find work...

On our last full day in Portugal, really the last full day of the European part of our holiday we headed to Guimaraes for a day trip. We started by attempting to see inside the Se (Cathedral) which is literally across the road from our apartment. Having stayed here for 4 days already, we picked a time to see it when there was a mass being conducted so we were unable to see inside. We headed down to Sao Bento station but as there was an hour before our train we sat in ...

... a célebre caçada as anacondas na Amazonas, ou as descidas radicais de BTT pelo Machu Picchu. Nesta viagem o unico feito marcante, foi o escaldao que apanhou, ficando conhecida pelo "Camaraozinho de Boipeba". Fabiana & Flavio - Nativos brazucas que conheci em Portugal. Flavio o primeiro estágiário dessa grande associação internacional que é a AIESEC (www.aiesec.org), conhecido nos dias de hoje por "Zico". Apesar de ter a alcunha do Astro Brasileiro de ...