Blogs from Northern, Portugal, Europe - page 41

Hello everyone! After being too tired to do much I decided to quit my tutoring and my weekend classes and I am no longer a money making machine. It didn't last long and I knew that my desire of making a lot a lot of money wasn't enough to make me work those hours. So now I am content earning a lot of money but not a lot a lot... I have now finished teaching for this year and hae been allocated these 3 weeks of holidays to do material development and preparation for next year. However, on the last day of teaching, which was Friday, I rang Air France on the off chance that they would tell me they had an available seat to fly home so I could see my family. I had been ... read more

Pri has her roots here, so naturally we had to visit :) Amongst other things we walked around in the very non-tourist streets of Matoshinos which was a nice change. Got a copy of the birth-certificate of her grandmother, but it turned out to be more difficult to find an address where she had lived before emigrating to Brasil. We also took a boat-trip on the Porto river and under the six bridges there.... read more

Currently staying at Gabby's house in Porto (yes, AGAIN!!). Will write more later just wanted to get started on the blog. ... read more

Here,s our second day in Porto. We seem to do much better when we spend two days in the same place.you can,t really discover a city in one, plus the second day gives us a chance to sleep late and recharge. The hotel (hostal) is great except for the fact that the laundry it listed on the website whhen we booked meant laundry that is sent out which is very expensive anfd takes 49 hours.no good. That means we was panties in the bathroom and hope the rest of our clothes don,t stink!! Evita went to the beach yesterday...you can get there right offf the metro (subway) and I went to the cathedral 1300,s.very dark and gothic... way up on a hill in the old section of town. The streets around the cathedral are a maze ... read more

Well, I did have to consume some of the local product. As they same, when in Rome..... Anyway, Porto rocks! Again, the architecture was beautiful and Porto had the extra advantage of being on the river Douro and therefore was even more picturesque than either Lisbon or Sintra. I had a short cruise along the river, called the 5 bridges tour for obvious reasons, and later tasted some good and not so good ports at 3 cellar doors. For some reason they seem to be big fans of chilled white port. Sweet or dry, neither is to my liking. The tawny and ruby ports, however, were worth the wait. I also did a tour at Taylor’s cellar door which was interesting. The vineyards are well up the river, Porto is simply the storage facility so it ... read more