Blogs from Northern, Portugal, Europe - page 29

Today is my last day here, quite sad. Definitely going to miss everyone a lot. Got up late on account of being up till this morning. After finally getting going Catia drove us out to Gaia for a lunch typical in Alentejo. Once again I loved it and once again they did not believe me ha. Played a little geocache in the afternoon. For everyone who doesn't know what that is it is a game organized online where people post caches and instruction on how to find them by leaving simply their GPS coordinates. Then you use some sort of GPS tracker to find it and then using the clues they give you to find the final spot. Its a real cool way to explore parts of your city that you have never been to before. ... read more

I dont have time to write because my internet time is up, but here are some quick pics of the douro valley. CC... read more

No dia 24 de Abril realizou-se a terceira visita - Rota do Românico do Vale do Sousa. Partimos de camioneta (21 pessoas) com destino a Penafiel, começando por visitar o Museu Municipal desta cidade. Logo aí, tivemos a surpresa de encontrarmos um museu “Espectacular” como dizem os meus alunos, situado numa bonita casa senhorial, interiormente transformada para acolher o museu pelo Arquitecto Fernando Távora, trabalho depois continuado pelo seu filho. Ficamos deslumbrados, penso que não exagero, com a forma como o espólio deste museu está exposto, obra do designer Francisco Providência. O acervo é constituído por colecções de Arqueologia, Etnografia e História local, tendo sido acompanhados na sua interpretação por uma Historiadora. Este Museu já passou à segunda fase num processo de candidatura internacional a museu do ano. Dirigimo-nos, depois, à Igre... read more

When we arrived in Porto we managed to find an open tour office and decided to take the next day (Friday) off (so to speak) and let a tour company take us for a trip up the Douro River. We had a majestic journey 100km up the river. This journey took 8 hours and we’re now returning on the train which is also very scenic. This is a fantastic way to see the Douro region. We travelled on the river on a lovely traditional boat and were accompanied by a group of very nice French-Canadians. After we left the city area we entered a stunning area of the river which was surrounded by forests, large boulders and cute bays and towns. Further up we entered the Port wine region where the river is surrounded by terraced ... read more

I'm in Portugal, and a few things have to be said before I delve into this blog: 1.Porto is beautiful. 2.I have a sunburn. 3.You can buy bottles of wine in the grocery stores for $0.89. There is much to be said about Porto, but there is also much to be said about the past two weeks! We have been blessed with the presence of our two guest bloggers, Dennis and Alison, sharing their perspectives of Europe with you. I should fill in the gap between our entrance into Germany and where we are now. We pick up from Berlin, where our visit was extremely educational. We learned an absolute ton about WWII and communist Germany - it was incredibly humbling to be in Berlin, a city that wrote much of the history of the 20th ... read more