Quality Inn Praça Da Batalha Porto

... gaan, maar dat komt grotendeels door de hardnekkige mist. Ik probeer weer een aantal korte video's te uploaden: de belboei bij Ramsgate, het hijsen van de vlag in Portugal, de vissen in de haven (we drijven echt in een aquarium) en misschien nog een paar andere stukjes.

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!!!!


Also attached is todays daily explosion...................IS it getting worse or better?????

... keeps warning us that when we get to southern Portugal and Spain the weather will be much warmer. Beautiful 5 star hotel tonight...going to a dinner of roast orange duck...any bets as to what Wendy will be eating?..Check out the pictures of our day in Portugal!..Adios (Don't know how to say goodbye in Portuguese)

... cake. As it turns out , on this occasion, the cake takes second place to Coimbra's culinary claim to fame. Nestled down a little back-alley we find the restaurant, Zé Manel dos Ossos. We squeeze ourselves into the tiny room made to feel slightly smaller by 3 walls being festooned with handwritten eulogies to the chef, clocks and for some reason the head of a bespectacled boar. The other wall is taken over by the kitchen / bar and this in turn is ...

... for a hostel. It looked more like an Ikea show room with free printing, quality linen, and a little bit too nice for a hostel. Good point to wind down I guess and as a result the only exciting thing I did was visit the Port Cellars which it is obviously famous for.

Unfortunately, I was one night too late for St John The Baptist festival ...

... anyway, we arrived kinda tired but decided to go out for a drink anyway. we went to the 'bar area' but it was dead on a Monday night. the small cups of beer were pretty cheap and ended up having quite a few. we left when the bar closed around 2.30am. while we were leaving we ran into a guy from porto who was celebrating his bday, and we exchanged numbers to meet up the next day, but never called him. we had to wake up again Tuesday morning because we had to return the ...

... got to see many of the towns that only locals travel through. The train is quite nice, and have found that I prefer it to the bus, as it seems much easier to understand when you don't know the language. My train traveled through the country to Coimbras (where I will be heading back to toward the end of my travels). I arrived in Porto in the evening and finally got checked into my hotel, which is quite nice! It ...

... an excellent restaurant called Simbiose at the far end of the promenade, just past where the cruise boats leave from. It serves traditional Portuguese food in a wonderful setting. Our table had French doors that opened to a spectacular river view. We sat in the warm January sun enjoying the food and wine until the afternoon began to slip away. On our way back we found a couple of very nice handicraft shops selling things that we hadn't seen elsewhere in ...

Começo escrevendo que desde ontem só tenho pensamentos positivos.... dito isso, aí vai a minha saga para chegar em Lisboa (notem que escrevo do Porto). Tudo começou quando entrei no posto da polícia federal ainda no aeroporto do Galeão, no Rio de Janeiro. Depois de uma fila imensa, quando chegou minha vez de falar com os oficiais, me toquei que não tinha registrado meu notebook na receita ...

... la nostra gratitudine. Dopo una memorabile doccia, ci gratifichiamo con una cena all'altezza e diamo un'occhiata alla città che ci appare bella dopo l'iniziale rigetto dovuto alla stanchezza e agli imprevisti. Facciamo un salto alla stazione e ne intuiamo la bellezza, sotto i lavori in corso. Porto è bella ma l'impressione è che sarà bellissima quando i lavori in corso per Portugal 2004 saranno terminati. Frase del giorno: Cuidado com o cao (Attenti ai cani portoghesi )