Day 20 and 21 - June 11 and 12 - Porto

  Porto, Northern Portugal, Portugal
Saturday, June 14, 2008

It was a working day Wed, June 11. Kakush Anil and Rozy went to work and we slept in. They picked us up at 1p and we headed to Porto. On the way, we picked up some chicken (Frango) in Fig and ate at their hotel´s restaurant. Then we walked to Emanha and everyone had coffee (bica) while I also had gelato. We arrived in Porto and drove around the city in circles for the hotel. However, I got a good tour, while Sameer stressed about Portugal´s second soccer game of the Euro Cup that was about to start.

Once checked in, the men watched the soccer game, while the women relaxed. Portugal beat Czech Rep 3-1 and qualified for the next round. In the evening, we walked around (I had started limping from my soccer injury). We walked around the beautiful city of Porto and ate at a restaurant by Ribeira (river). This was the first time that Kaka Anil let me pay for anything and I had to beg him to let me.

By the Ribeiro

 

Beautiful Porto

The next morning, we woke up early, had breakfast at the hotel. After walking around and taking pictures of different monuments including the Cleric Tower and Chapel, we went to Calem where we got a nice tour of how Port is made. We left Porto for Lisbon at 2p. Kaka dropped us at the Ismaili Center, where Tio Sadru (Sofia´s mamu) picked us up. Poor Kaka had to drive all the way back to Fig.

We spent some time at a pasteleria in Benfica with Tio Sadru and Tia Shireen. Later that evening, we had dinner at Tio Mansoor's. Then, we went to the Festival of San Antonio, the craziest party I have ever seen, walking all along Ave de Liberdade and uphill to St. George's Castel. The cobble-stone streets were filled with people partying, music, dancing and all this amidst the historic setting of Lisbon. We probably walked for about 2-3 hours and I didn't know this then, but I was walking on a broken foot.