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Dave here.....great times my friend!

Deep in the Heart of Portugal
I have just looked at a map, and it seems the Douro River cruise really took you deep into the heart of Portugal at Castelo Rodrigo. It looks amazing. I also prefer visiting places without headsets and histories - I prefer feeling, sensing, smelling places. Lol - I thought for a short moment there that when you said a Viking ship pulled alongside you, you were going to get marauded by big, bearded blokes with axes - I'm glad you weren't!

Knives
How did you manage to get your knives home? I guess for you they are tools of trade, but some may regard them as weapons. Any issues with US Customs?

Amazing Food and Wine
It looks as though you are in your element here, Brendan - travelling, and being surrounded by amazing food and drink. How nice it must be to be on the receiving end of the food, and I imagine it would also have inspired your work back home. Travel is indeed an amazing form of education ?

Appreciate
Excellent work

Oh The Soups
They were grand.

Drinking and dining....dining and drinking
Dave here.....another great blog to remind of a fine time!!

After the drinking?
When did the drinking stop... I may have missed that? LOL. Ok, just one more portonic... or whatever that other drink was that you seemed to enjoy rather frequently.( but don't worry I won't tell anyone). I was soaking in the pool getting revitalized while and and Dave and the rest of your trivia team took the others to tasks. Dave is a wealth of useless knowledge and sports statistics and facts so it was great to have him on your team. When you visit next I want lessons in how to make those cod fish fritters... or maybe we can do a zoom call. I may have to buy a deep fryer. Indeed some of the food was not as top notch as I wanted it to be on a couple of nights but generally really great food. Well done. MJ