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February 9th 2008 by vicarious travelling

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Friday 8 February 2008

Our bus arrived at Porto bus station early afternoon. The ‘bus station’ was basically a big shed which was half way through being renovated. There being no signs in sight to direct us anywhere, probably because of the renovation, so we enquired at the information desk. The instructions from our hostel advised catching a Metro to it. In Barbara’s best attempt at Portuguese she asked “Metro? Por favour”. To attempt Portuguese probably wasn’t a good idea because then the man proceeded to rattle off Portuguese instructions to us at 1000 words per minute. Our best interpretation

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Spectacular view of the town of Porto

Spectacular view of the town of Porto
from the 'high road'

Sandeman port wine cellar

Sandeman port wine cellar

Storage barrels at Calem port wine cellar

Storage barrels at Calem port wine cellar

Port wine tastings

Port wine tastings
at Calem

Not much left of Barbara

Not much left of Barbara
- it's ok, Michael will happily finish it off!

Storage barrels at Sandeman

Storage barrels at Sandeman

Zorro!

Zorro!
Our tour guide at Sandeman offering not-so-impressive port tastings

A tale of two meals

A tale of two meals
- the 'real chips' and 'not-so-real chips'

Funicular railway

Funicular railway

Funicular railway

Funicular railway

The Tardis metro station

The Tardis metro station

One of our 3 trains to Spain

One of our 3 trains to Spain

Very 'brave' - read 'stupid' - paraglider

Very 'brave' - read 'stupid' - paraglider

Locking our luggage to the train while we sleep

Locking our luggage to the train while we sleep

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