Blogs from Lagos, Algarve, Portugal, Europe - page 16

Hello everybody! So, this last weekend I decided I needed some time away from the cold and windy weather of Ireland and decided to head down to sunny Portugal!! And it was seriously the best four days of my life! I'm not kidding. My friend Erin and I caught an early flight from Dublin and, after much delay due to the french strikes, we eventually arrived safe and sound in Faro. We weren't having the best luck with the time schedule and had to wait another hour for the bus, but we were happy just sitting at a nearby cafe and getting some sandwiches and ice cream. Boy oh boy did it feel good to have the sun on our backs! I mean, I hadn't felt the sun like that for a long time. The bus ... read more

Last Thursday I went with the program to see a flamenco show. Two dancers, a guitarrist, and a singer. It was pretty amazing. Later that night, I ran into my friend, Anne Taylor, from U of M, and decided to join her and a couple of her friends in Lagos, Portugal for the weekend. It turns out that two of the girls are one of my oldest friend's best friends from college. How random!? I just barely caught the bus (I literally got there at 7:30 and the bus pulled out at 7:31), but did manage to get on board for an amazing, crazy weekend. We stayed at one of the most sketchy, disgusting, but fun hostels ever, Camel Toe, brother of the Rising Cock. Yeah...that might give you an idea of what it was like. ... read more

-Portugal Rules - Gutted this is the end of the tour but a great place to finish it. We made the most of our time here as we new that the tour was coming to an end. We definately partied the hardest here, made the most of our hire car (burnouts and drifts on Mcdonalds trays) and genally went hard whateva we were doing. The weather in Portugal was awesome, not quite as hot as Spain and the water was cooler too. The beaches are awesome and are usually surrounded by awesome rock faces. We stopped at a wicked surf beach for a couple of days, and watched the pros who had come from all over to get a bit of Portugal surf (and we smoked ourselves trying to bodysurf in the waves. We also ... read more

in faro heading for morocco!!... wait for it .... today i had grilled sardines!!!...yum yum yummy!!!!... still no fotos!!.. cant find cable.... ~love you all... read more

Pozdravljeni! Koncno sledi prvo porocanje po petih dneh potovanja. Tisti, ki se ne veste, sva z Natalijo sla na Portugalsko. Po napol prespani noci na Stanstedu (kjer so ene bliznje vzhodnjakinje zraven naju na klopci razkazovale svoje nakupe-vsaka cca 7 parov novih cevljev!!!)sva pristala v Portu. Ker je mesto ziv dolgcajt, sva si ga samo na hitro ogledala-lepe ulice, drugace pa nic. Ce se ne veste, zrezki po portugalsko plavajo v centimetru olivnega olja. Popoldan sva sla naprej v Coimbro, univerzitetno mesto, ki pa razen faxa in cerkev nima duse - najbrz tudi zato, ker ni studentov. Edina zanimiva scena je bila, ko sva sla v hostel in iz sobe pride 85 let stara bakica in se zacneva z rokami in jaz z slovarjem v roki pogovarjat za ceno. Potem je pa sla po pomoc za ... read more