Hotelaria do Alboi Aveiro

We arrived without incident after a short and pleasant journey. Odd campsite mainly permanent encampments! Most of them looked like they had been there for many years. We were entertained by families arriving over the weekend to pack up for the winter. They cleared out all the rubbish that they had accumulated over the summer. They then covered their caravan.awning and covered area with tarpaulin and tied it down and put stones ...

... they were hardcore). Good thing we opted for the boogie boards because once in the water, the waves were massive and the undertow was insanely strong. Our hostel was amazing and the owner was chill and helped us map out some cool surf and kite spots along the coast.<br><br>http://picasaweb.google.c om/Jonny.D.Lawrence/20091007Aveiro?auth key=Gv1sRgCOOE_tn74bSSKA&amp;feat=direc tlink

... couldn't stay with Albert and Maria while we went on our way, knowing there was still some ice cream in the freezer and a soccer game coming on. After some convincing, and some paniced looks from Albert and Maria, the boys settled in on the train for our 3 hour ride to Granja. Granja is in Northern Portugal, about 20 minutes south of Porto (Portugal's second largest city). The train was ...

... and their son, Zélito. José Martins has an inoperable heart condition, and his wife is struggling with health. José is one of the few laborers that we do have in the Portuguese language and has been very helpful in the translation and review of United Church of God booklets into Portuguese. I appreciated his labor of love and their gracious hospitality.

It's to happen. We missed our train to Porto so we are waiting for the next one wich is at 6.17. That meas we will have to take a taxi to get to airport before 8 not to loose the plane. Hope that we won't have more things like that... Anyway, we are ready, we are packed leaving in 20 min.

There are only two days left for our trip. It seems that for half of it I am going to travel alone as my french friend needs to come back to write an exam. We didn't found any accomodation in Frankurt and in Rome so we are going probably to stay in a hostel (still working on it). Anyway we've been already lucky so we cannot be in a whole :) ________________________ Music: Elsa Soares - Mas que nada

It's seems that we are lucky. Today we got a response from girl in Bratislava so still need just two places to stay. Hope we will find them as quick as this ones :) What is more I'm now trying to get some informations in the internet about places which we should see. As I wrote before we won't use any guide besides ones in real. Music: Camiel - Take me to this place

Portugali Veneetsia? Vähemalt nii seda kutsutakse, kuigi, olgem ausad, päris Veneetsia on ikka..Veneetsia :) Kuigi tõepoolest on seal mõni kanal, kuid see on ka ainuke paralleel Päris Kanalite linnaga. Aveiro oli vanasti üsna tähtis sadamalinn, kuid 1570ndatel kannatas ta suure tormi all, mis blokeeris jõesuudme, mistõttu laevad ei saanud enam ookeanini välja sõita. Järgmised ...

Day 8 - Portalegre People are really destroying the world, or so says the totally crazy weather these days. It should be a very hot and sunny period, especially in Alentejo, but this was the first day of one whole week of expected heavy rain. For the first day at least the forecast was absolutely right and I was forced to change my plans, since I wasn't exactly in the mood for hitch-hiking under a storm. Since the city's appeal had worn off, I just decided to spend my day ...

... were supposed to meet me, but behold no boys? They apparently stood me up because the place closed and their train cancelled so they had to find accommodation, nevermind i forgive them! Porto was crazy that night i didn't really go out but i did walk around centro for a little bit. There were people everywhere covered in the Portuguese flags on the roofs of cars and everything shouting and ...