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It really is a shame we already booked our flight to France from Porto. We could have easily stayed an extra week in Portugal, there is so much to see here. But we did pretty good with our 2 days in Porto. It's right on the river and the ocean, and on one side of the river are tons of cute, old tiled homes, that look across to the other side of the bank where all of the old Port ...

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We drove to Madelana about 8 kilometers from Porto. As we got near Jessica decided that she was no longer going to be our sat nav floozie and left us in the lurch in a narrow cobbled street. A kind passerby volunteered to accompany us out of difficulty but there was no room in the car. Where upon a passing motorist stopped and offered to lead us to the camp site. There followed a journey down twisting cobbled streets some of them two way as he stopped the oncoming ...

... without the normal care and as we were going along we suddenly realized that the caravan had become detached. Fortunately the breakaway cable had worked. We reversed and reattached her, no harm having been done. We then had to do a 50 mile detour to get to the camp site. We spoke to other camper and caravaners who had had great ...

... 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

... into our room later that night. We parked in the center and walked around with everyone. the weather was ******. the man who helped us with directions in Lisbon told us that Lisbon was like Paris and Porto is like London. Well he was right about London with respect to the weather and the red telephone booths. the main plaza reminded me a little of Nancy, France because of the french architecture. we then walked around by the water with the bridges and porto houses ...

... in the old part of town. Generally that means cobbles and Santiago is no exception, there are lots of cobbles. Invariably we end up walking and pushing the bikes and on our way in we happened upon a huge group of scouts. Scouting is still big in Spain and lots of groups do The Camino every year. They were all singing and chanting and having a really good time, the way we hope that all teenagers would have a good time having accomplished something fairly ...

... to post a couple of days blog as well as clear my email. Eventually they blamed me for slowing their network down and asked me to leave. Oh well. For dinner Jess and I walked to a nearby café and bought some barbecued chicken and chips to take away. While we waited for them to cook we enjoyed a glass of vinho verde, 'green wine' that is a regional speciality. It cost us the princely sum of 50 cents a glass and was poured from a tap.

... as this one. The intricate gilt wood work of the interior covers almost completely the original structure, hiding behind its exuberant details the aisles, vaults, pillars and window frames of the chapels. It was as if the interior were made of warm caramel what was gently melting down the walls. This opulence certainly does not go hand in ...

... list. We used Porto's excellent Metro system to reach the hotel in no time (well, it took us about 45 minutes), and then we went off exploring for the next few days. Most of the time we spent wandering around the narrow and somewhat steep streets in Porto's historical center (another UNESCO World Heritage Site) as well as down by River Douro with all its restaurants and photogenic bridges. We found a beautiful city with lots of ...