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18 July 2019
As if my body was adapting to Brazilian time beforehand, I woke later than normal around 0800 then just before 0900. We had a leisurely breakfast and then rushed to ready ourselves for the 1100 check-out. As part of our TAP Air Portugal ticket from Madrid (or London in Kim’s case) to Brazil, we had […]
17 July 2019
Quite unusually, I had a lazy morning. Kim and Greg went out to do their laundry at midday and it was around 1400 when they returned and we went out of lunch. We wandered across the Luis I Bridge to get better pictures of Ribeira as the light was contrary on our first afternoon. Continuing […]
16 July 2019
We had a leisurely start with breakfast of warm bread, cheese, tomatoes and fruit in the apartment. With a free walking tour booked for 1000, we didn’t have much time afterwards but had to walk uphill to the starting point near Clerigos Tower, which I learnt was the tallest building in Porto (surely not, perhaps […]
15 July 2019
Leaving Spain I walked to Atocha station a little before 0700 only to miss the bus to Madrid airport by seconds. That was the bus that I hadn’t counted on taking but it was running late. It was a short wait till the bus I had planned on taking at 0720. The good thing was […]
30 July 2017
Exploring Lisbon I was up and out the door at 0730 for a wander down to Praca Comercio and the surrounding district inland, doing a loop taking in large city block and a few squares. It was an ugly start from my area and the bar patrons had littered the street with lots of plastic […]
29 July 2017
Above: Street scene in Algiers before I fly out to Lisbon. Making the most of my Algiers stay After an early breakfast I wanted to make the most of my short stay in Algiers and go to the casbah again. I took the metro as far as I could. I forgot that there was only […]
11 September 2009
Above: Hazy start to the day in Porto on practice day of the Red Bull air race. We attempted to go to a nearby fishing village today … it all turned to custard with bus services being suspended due to road closures in preparation for tomorrow’s Red Bull air race. So we returned to the […]
10 September 2009
Porto or Oporto is home to Port Wine. The city centre is very much a Paris-wannabe like Buenos Aires and Montevideo … with wide boulevards and beautiful classy buildings on both sides. Text continues after this gallery. The old city or Ribeiro is located slightly downhill on the river bank. It is rundown […]
9 September 2009
We travelled up the country through very boring landscape by bus (3.5 hours). The long distance buses are extremely new and comfortable. We arrived in Porto to realise that the Red Bull air race would be on the day we leave for Paris! Coincidentally Kim had his Red Bull airshow cap around town … from […]
8 September 2009
One of the highlights of Lisbon is Sintra, located about 45 minutes out of town. It has an Moorish castle plus a few villas and palaces dotted around the unusually green hilly landscape. Due to the distance and topography, it is essential to get around these sights by bus … and that itself is rather […]