Obligada a Porto!

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September 24th 2008

Published: September 25th 2008

Saturday September 20: Arrived in Porto at 8am, only to find out that Portugal is in a different time zone an hour ahead of Spain! At 7am on Saturday, nothing was open, so we found a nice park to sit in and eat the sandwiches that our host families had prepared for us. In Portugal we realized that we didn’t know the name or address of the hostal we had booked (oops! Live and learn, I guess). We ... Read Full Entry

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Open air market selling...

Birds! Every vendor here was selling birds, cages, and seeds. It seemed pretty popular. I hope everyone likes their souvenirs from Porto....

The church I attended on Sunday

I didn't understand much, but it was interesting anyway. As you can see, its huge - but there were probably only about 50 (or less) people there for the 10am mass.

outside of the church that I attended

I don't know the name of it~

Bird Market from above

You can see it was quite large.

The Bells of dos Clerigos

I climbed the 225 steps of the Tower of dos Clerigos to get a better view of the city. The bells up there played "Ave Maria"

The Trolley

Getting to know the locals

I don't know why, but there were four duplicates of this statue in the same park.

Crystal Palace

Here I am at the entrance to the Jardim de Palacio Cristal. The cristal palace wasn't that impressive (behind me). At one time there was a World Expo here, but its been turned into a sports arena.

Stopping to smell the roses,

in the gardens surrounding the crystal palace. The Gardens were extensive, I must have spent 2 hours there.

Porto by the Ponte

Princess Bonnie

In the tower of the Garden of the Crystal palace.

Up close

Palm trees

It felt a little like home!

On the trolley

After the walk around the gardens, we decided to take the trolley back up the hill to the city. Since we didn't know where to get off, we missed our stop and ended up riding it back down the hill again - so we rode it twice.

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