Montebelo Hotel And Spa Viseu

... be a mere 6 hours later, combined with the realisation that Regua, described as "little more than a transport hub" in the Lowly Planet, was horrid. We don't usually pay much attention to the LP guides but when it pointed out that the Tourist Information office a mere 10 back-breaking, rucksack-lugging minutes from the station was 'marginally more helpful' than the one adjoining the station we had to concur on two counts that a ...

... hours in which my host in Porto, José Martins, and I struggled to meet each other. I would have a number of such instances as Satan was really attempting to destroy the success of this trip, but God always intervened. I observed the Sabbath on April 4 in the home of José Martins, who is a long-standing member, and his family, namely his wife, Rosa ...

... we could take it. Sure seemed too easy that we could just drive on from here. So, we decided to give the girls a couple of days to work it out whilst we waited in the closest town, Olivier do Hospital for their answer on the sale. We packed up our campsite and tried to work out how to get out of the party without hitching with cardboard signs. People were all over the roads with signs asking for lifts in all directions, Madrid, Lisboa, Porto and the UK were popular choices ...

Top 5 - L'utilisation du baton de marche

1- Chasser un petit chien un peu trop insistant

2- Chasser plusieurs petits chiens un peu trop insistants

3- Chasser un moyen chien un peu trop insistant

4- Chasser plusieurs moyens chiens un peu trop insistants

5- Chasser un OSTIE de gros chien TRES insistant!!!
Agueda, Beiras, Portugal amidlifecrisis

Chegou então o dia da partida. A verdade é que, após tantos dias de organização (trajectos e camas), só agora vou fazer a mochila. Quer dizer, a mochila está feita há uns anos, vou só meter lá dentro as roupas e essas coisas. Será que vai caber tudo? Apresento aqui a lista, a checklist. Sim, embora seja de comboio, há uma ...

We took a travel day to help Deanne´s shin recover and somewhere about the time we passed through Fatima, it miraculously healed. She didn´t even have to get out and buy a wax cast of a shin to melt at the shrine! We stopped off at Porto only long enough to grab another train that went up the Douro Valley, Portugal´s premiere wine growing region. This is where Port wine ...

amazingly beautiful area with a river running thru green hills, dotted with small portugese white washed villages and vineyards which are dug into the siderd of teh hills. the rain didn't stop us from doing a couple of winery tours and climbing up 600 odd steps to see a beautiful church.... although we did find ourselves inside bars and bakeries samling portugals finest ports and pastries .... and the chinese restaurant of course (habits die hard).

... een beetje hectisch, met vertraging en alles, maar dat lijkt alweer lang geleden. Ik heb er inmiddels 2 diensten opzitten. Gisteren was de eerste ´werkdag´, middagdienst. Ik moest om 11 uur beginnen en was om 5 uur vrij. Klusjes als badhuis schoonmaken, diner voorbereiden, planten water geven en zelfs een uurtje met de gasten kletsen. De gastvrouwen Liedewij en Jolijn maken zich niet druk en ...

... was in Quinta do Vallado, Miguel who is a gourmet, love the wines made there. As we got into the winery we discover that they do not have a tourist program. But we were very lucky, because one of the owners were there, and he was very polite to allow us making a quickly visit to their wine "factory", with him explaining the process. And in the end he gave us 4 bottle of his wines. Next stop: Porto

... dawned on us the other night as we watched a young girl, with the beginnings of a huge rack and rear, tuck into her dinner.....everything on her plate was yellow! Apart from meat (and lots of it) the Portuguese diet seems to be all yellow. Cheese, custard tarts, tortillas, eggs, everything in the pastelleria, beers, batatas fritas (potato chips), even the bread has a yellow tinge. Maybe there is a connection somewhere?! Anyway onto our travels ...