The Other Side

Minutes from the Square you find areas that, while I consider safe to be in, it might be worth being a little wary in. Most pickpockets operate in busy squares and tourist areas where they go unnoticed. This neighbourhood is much safer. Salt of the earth type of people.

7 September 2019: Getting to Porto , Easy Peasy.

September 7th 2019
This morning was a casual, no rush affair. We had 4 hours to catch a train that was a 10 minute walk away. I plonked into my favourite chair near the window, and looked out at a large trawler passing nearby, with an orange ferry on one of its many river crossings for the day. It was that bright , clean early morning light that highlights the colourful buildings with their curved tiled terracott ... read more

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Following its heyday as a world power during the 15th and 16th centuries, Portugal lost much of its wealth and status with the destruction of Lisbon in a 1755 earthquake, occupation during the Napoleonic Wars, and the independence in 1822 of Brazil a... ... read more

23rd September 2019

Susan Petch
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Camino
Woule love to walk the Portugues camino. Armchair travel next year I expect.

24th September 2019

sherrys
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It will be.
I hope. Never too sure about these things and then the idea sticks. It’s shorter and couldn’t be tougher than the Francés so I plan to do it.

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