http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Portugal/Northern/Porto/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Europe , Portugal , Northern , Porto en-us Mon, 20 May 2013 20:45:06 +0000 Mon, 20 May 2013 20:45:06 +0000 After Faro and Lisbon we decided to go to Porto an amazing old city you just can39t be in a street and don39t see something beautiful It39s 3h from Lisbon and the bus from there cost 15.Between Faro Lisbon and Porto it39s for good Porto who39s the cheaper. Especially for the restaurants you can eat around everywhere for 4 5 first course and course. They sell a spec http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Portugal/Northern/Porto/blog-764636.html Now that we are overwintering in Lagos Portugal we have decided to take advantage of the time and do some overland traveling. We choose to use public transportation for our travels to both Oporto more commonly referred to as Porto and to Lisboa Lisbon. Conveniently the bus station is very close to the marina in Lagos and took us to Porto with only a halfhour layover in Lisbon on the way nort http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Portugal/Northern/Porto/blog-755674.html We had very low expectations of our RyanAir flight to Porto. We39d heard horror stories about being charged obscene amounts for the tiniest indiscretions not printing off your own boarding passes before arriving at the airport your bags being accepted at one airport but rejected at another etc and about the mad scramble to get a seat seats are not allocated on RyanAir flights. We39d pre http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Portugal/Northern/Porto/Povoa-de-Varzim-/blog-747439.html Porto is a busy industrial and commercial center. The city itself isn39t very populous about 240000 inhabitants but the Porto metropolitan area Greater Porto has some 1500000 inhabitants in a 50 km radius with cities like Gaia Matosinhos Maia Gondomar and Espinho.The city was built along the hills overlooking the Douro river estuary and its historical center was awarded World Heri http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Portugal/Northern/Porto/blog-738242.html Gardens and parks are the right place to relax mind and eyes. Children love park. Parks and gardens in Porto help people to keep in touch with nature. This article discuss about the best four Porto Portugal attractions.Calm Antonio Garden domestically famous as O jardim de Antnio Calm is situated at Rua das Sobreiras. The garden is beautifully placed on the banks of the river Douro. The gard http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Portugal/Northern/Porto/Povoa-de-Varzim-/blog-693119.html Its always exciting to enter a new country for the first time. Dealing with customs and making sure your paperwork is all in order is always a hassle. In the back of your mind theres always a chance youll be taken to a back room with two way mirrors instead of windows medical furniture and a box of rubber gloves for questioning too. Well once youre in the E.U. European Union http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Portugal/Northern/Porto/blog-682561.html A acta da assembleiageral que decorreu no passado dia 9 de Dezembro 2011 com uma excelente participao dos scios da nossa Associao. semelhana de anos anteriores o Jantar de Natal foi de novo o evento do ano com o maior nmero de participaes.Cinquenta e trs scios e um convidado conviveram num ambiente de amizade e boa disposio que foi animado pelo trio musicalFli http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Portugal/Northern/Porto/blog-682453.html Viagem ao Minho 22 e 23 de Outubro de 2011Dia lindo tal como a Anabela nos tinha prometido. Pelas 9 horas partimos em direco ao Pao de Calheiros desfrutando das belas paisagens minhotas.Fomos recebidos muito gentilmente pelo proprietrio com um agradvel caf servido com bolo po e compotas deliciosas.O palcio obra do sculo XV vive agora no regime de turismo de habitao. As http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Portugal/Northern/Porto/blog-667320.html Ch Convvio no Oporto Cricket Lawn Tennis ClubDomingo dia 25 de Setembro 2011 http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Portugal/Northern/Porto/blog-662564.html My motto in traveling is Though you are a foreigner always eat like a local. So if I am with friends who are natives of the country in which I am traveling I ask them to order for me what they like to eat. If I am alone I ask the waiter what they or the chef suggest. I end up eating many items that I would never be likely to try in the States thus adding a delightful richness of ex http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Portugal/Northern/Porto/blog-661770.html I got into Porto late. With a Reservation NopeI get into Porto late hungry and no idea where to stay or where to go. I take the metro from the airport to what I think is the right way. 45 mins later I get off on a random stop in what I can best guess is the city center. 2 other backpackers get off and ask me if I have a place to stay. One of them does the other does not. So we wander around for http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Portugal/Northern/Porto/blog-647905.html A RECORD NUMBER OF BRISTOLOPORTO ASSOCIATION MEMBERS VISIT PORTUGAL JUNE 2011Such a successful trip . how can we keep saying every visit is better than the one beforeOur thanks go to Peter and Anabela Evens who put in an inordinate amount of work to make this tour so enjoyable. We very much appreciated too the warm hospitality shown us by members of our sister association Associao http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Portugal/Northern/Porto/blog-638429.html HelloThe go2oporto.com apartment rental team is the right place for you to ask questions and rent spaces on Porto Oporto city.They are an excellent team and they work directly with local house owners so they always get the best locations at low cost prices.I have already booked with them for two times now and all went fine. First time i stay on a beautiful apartment located in Ribeira. For http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Portugal/Northern/Porto/blog-634835.html I39ve been told that I need to post a new blog entry so here we goAfter a weekend of finishing up school work and lying in bed watching the entire second season of How I Met Your Mother I39m already ashamed please don39t mock me further I convinced my roommate that we needed to leave the house. Luckily our good friend Miguel called at that exact moment wanting to get out of the c http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Portugal/Northern/Porto/Povoa-de-Varzim-/blog-626272.html Numa amena madrugada de Maio dia 6 2011 l partiu do Porto um grupo de 20 jovens vindos de Lisboa Coimbra e Porto a caminho do sonho do fim de semana em Kent.Porque todos os participantes tiveram em devida conta os incontornveis limites de bagagem da Ryanair l embarcamos sem incidentes e chegmos a Stansted hora prevista.Aps o pequeno almoo no aeroporto a viagem de autoc http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Portugal/Northern/Porto/blog-615517.html No dia 17 deste ms de Abril realizouse tal como estava programado uma visita ao Convento de Tibes e Quinta do Convento da Franqueira.Partimos do Porto em autocarro rumo a Mire de Tibes no Concelho de Braga.Este mosteiro fundado no sec XI tambm chamado S. Martinho de Tibes engloba a Igreja e o Cruzeiro de Tibes.A partir do sec XII foi ocupado pela congregao Beneditina. No se http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Portugal/Northern/Porto/blog-615075.html Oporto Ah Porto where the utterly confusing conglomeration of narrow cobblestone roads network together somehow to make up this stunning city connected to yet somehow removed from the rest of the world. I discovered it is substantially cheaper to take several small bustrain trips from Santiago de Compostela to Oporto meeting the same bus in Vigo Spain that had left from Santiago de Comp http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Portugal/Northern/Porto/blog-613148.html We began the day by taking the reasonably new commuter train from near where we are staying Gaia into the centre of the city at a very cheap return ticket of 2.40 euros. The Sao Bento railway station has the walls of the concourse decorated with pictures of triumphant historical battles made from blue and white tiles. The effect was stunning.From the station everything seemed to be going uphil http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Portugal/Northern/Porto/blog-612146.html Crossing the border from Spain into Portugal is rather a nonevent. Driving south you suddenly come across the EU symbol of yellow stars on a blue background with the name Portugal written across it. We gave a great whoop and then carried on as if nothing had happened. Really we were quite excited because we were driving into the unknown and that proved to be just the case.After leaving Santia http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Portugal/Northern/Porto/blog-611964.html We arrived in Porto and took the subway to the street that the hostel was on we came to 93 which is what it said it was in the directions and there was no sign for the Atum Guest House. We must have looked very confused because someone was in the window above watching us he yelled down Michelle Shelly answered and well we were 'home'. We looked around a little skeptical that this was the ri http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Portugal/Northern/Porto/blog-593378.html