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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 […]
7 September 2009
We took a public tram (number 28) uphill to an old part of the city called Alfama. It was very picturesque as the tram ding-dinged its way through the steep narrow streets where it was so narrow you could touch the houses on either side. There had been about two-tramloads of people waiting. Imagine if […]
6 September 2009
We did an online check-in for British Airways last night and it said on the Boarding Pass that bag-drop opens at 0500. So we thought we’d be able to drop our bags after breakfast then head into the city for a few hours and return to the airport for boarding the evening flight. Unfortunately when […]