Blogs from Porto, Northern, Portugal, Europe - page 21

To end the year (2007) in our traditional manner the PBA members gathered for our Annual Dinner at the Oporto Cricket & Lawn Tennis Club. With 28 people present this turned out to be a great evening, with good food, raffle prizes and a lot of socializing. A questionnaire was completed by members to help with the planning of future activities / events, The President Peter Evens thanked the members who had supported the PBA through the year and outlined the planned activities for 2008, leading to a lot of anticipation for the new year ... read more

Porquê e Para Quê a Associação Porto - Bristol? O tratado de geminação das cidades Porto/Bristol data de 11/04/1984 e foi assinado pelo Eng. António Guilherme Paulo Valada, na qualidade de Presidente da Câmara Municipal do Porto. Pela parte inglesa foi assinado pelo Lord Mayor, de então, Councillar Frederick Apperly. Há duas cópias da carta de geminação. Em Bristol está exposta na “ Mansion House” e, no Porto, encontra-se na posse da Câmara Municipal. As relações comercias entre estas duas cidades já existem há cinco séculos. Transcrevendo a carta de geminação,” pela sólida amizade que se estabeleceu entre elas ao longo desse período, julgou-se oportuno reconhecer formalmente estas relações e, através delas, alicerçar e desenvolver as actividades comerciais e culturais”. Na assinatura do tratado de geminação, em Bristol, esteve presente a Associação Comercial do Port... read more

Photographs of our recent trip to Porto, March 2009.... read more

All Aboard the Pimp Train to Porto After the hell train that was Madrid to Lisbon, we got ourselves a pimp train to Porto, home of the Port wine. Port wine means dessert wine to you beginner wine drinkers. I am now officially considered an intermediate Port wine taster. If you’re now attempting to decifer what an intermediate wine taster would be, I would use this guide: Drinks Vinegar (Wyatt Culbert) Ghetto Wine Drinker (Bryan Eyslee, Brendan McNerney) Just Above Ghetto Wine Drinker (Cory Boyd) Beginner Wine Drinker (Caitlin McNerney) Intermediate Wine Drinker (Brian Tatko) Expert Wine Drinker (Tara Costello, Cheryl Eisenhour) Stallion Wine Drinker (Becca Pementell) Grand Wizard Wine Drinker (Thomas and Fay Tatko) Please note that all wine drank in Chico comes in a box or below $10 bottle and usually has a picture ... read more

Well, all good things come to an end and sadly so does life at the villa. It has been a wonderful week of pure relaxation, short trips of exploration and adventure seeing beautiful sights,, meeting smiling friendly people who laugh with us as we struggle with different languages, and sharing good times and culinary wonders with our travelling companions. Friday morning we left the villa for a last day and overnight in Porto before continuing on our different paths. Today two will leave Porto in the afternoon and fly off to Amsterdam for a brief three day visit before returning to Edmonton. On Saturday Lynn and one other person will be on the to catch a flights to Heathrow in London for an overnight stay before continuing on to Vancouver and Edmonton. From Edmonton Lynn ... read more