Pensao Chique Residencial Porto

... the right direction (which we still managed to screw up). As we crossed the bridge to the Port Chateaus it started pouring rain (Thank you Chris for making me bring my coat) and we were soaked by the time we got there. Thankfully we have both become pretty immune to the rain.

The first Chateau we visited was Sandeman. They are a very old Chateau and are famous for their trademark character “The Don” who appears on all their bottles and ...

... 15kg for a checked bag. Unfortunately my checked bag was about 17kg, and the penalty for going over the limit is 20eur per kg. I obviously had to find a way around this, so I began to do some rearranging of things. I was able to get down to 14.7kg by putting my laptop battery in my pocket, wearing 3 shirts and a sweater, putting my other sweater around my waist, wearing shorts and pants, and filling my pockets with any kind of various weight that would fit. Needless ...

... 10 72;рдный конце 88;тный зал Casa de Musica, модер 85;истск& #1080;е фасад 99; на главн 86;й площа 76;и, и полур 72;звали& #1074 ...

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... 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

... We headed back to the hotel after drinks through a cool old area of Porto. A lot of buildings were completely clad in tiles, but the area was really run down. It really seemed like they should be preserving areas like that, but at the same time I guess they have a lot of old places to preserve. I took us down this one street to get back to the hotel and Kevin was sure we were going the wrong way. We weren't and I won the "sense ...

... and at some point (not sure when) I'll put up a list and maybe do one of those star rating things, but then that smacks of advertising and I don't really want to do that, so maybe just a mention. The night before last the cats got the chorizo. We've been buying chorizo to perk up our rice dishes (Jamie I'm not, but I try) and we completely forgot we had the chorizo and left it outside the tent. We were woken in the early hours by the local feral cats ...

... climbing aboard with the other six passengers. A one hour cruise was just ten euros each for Jess and I and the girls were free. Bonus! First the cruise headed up-river until it reached the first of the 'seven bridges' that connect one side of Porto with the other, across the Douro. What we saw was an area that may well be world heritage listed but is sadly neglected. Many of the riverfront properties lie derelict, their ...

... arrangement was unheard of, and mass was being held simultaneously in each! Moving on we saw an old wooden streetcar. We suspected it wasn't in working order since it was stopped next to a park, but we soon saw that people were readily jumping on it as it took off powered by the old network of cables that ran above it. Yet another example of Porto ...

... af gaat. Lineke roept 'anker uit!!!!!!' en we blijken na enige tijd op 10 meter diepte in de haven voor anker te liggen. Maar de stoot wind blijft en ook de deining is niet mis. De motorkamer wordt weer opengegooid en de waterpomp met water uit de fluitketel gevuld en ja hoor hij doet het weer! Nu het anker los, maar dat geeft heel wat problemen. Na een worsteling van meer dan een kwartier is hij boven en vervolgen we onze koers aan de hoge wal om een beetje onder het geweld ...