DIY-Portugal
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Note 37 – Portugal’s Roots – Braga & Guimarães
The Portuguese have a saying: “Braga prays, Coimbra studies, Porto works, and Lisbon gets the money and parties”. For our second full day in Porto, we scheduled a private tour north of Porto to the Minho region to find Portugal’s roots in the towns of Braga and Guimarães. We found the tour on Viator, provided…
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Note 36 – Porto Means Port!
Continuing our afternoon, we had a late lunch at the restaurant recommended by José, Adega São Nicolau (meaning Winery on St. Nicholas Road). It’s really small and has some tables outside, but even though they had umbrellas, in the rain it was pretty wet. There was about a 45-minute wait, so we put our name…
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Note 35 – Porto Morning Walking Tour
For our first full day in Porto, our plan was a morning walking tour Paula booked through Tours By Locals, then lunch, then across the bridge to Vila Nova de Gaia (usually just called Gaia) for a port house tour in the afternoon. The original tour we booked was a half-day with a professionally licensed…
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Note 34 – Portugal Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
Unlike our Iceland, Greenland, Canada cruise (Note 5 through Note 25), where I blogged almost every day, I’m writing about our Portugal trip after our return. It will probably be a few days between posts as I process all of our pictures. We substituted this trip for our cancelled trip to Israel and used the…
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Note 32 – Portugal Prep
Expected weather: Hi 72F / Low 49F (historic average ranges for Porto and Lisbon during this time) We are about to leave for Portugal. I gave a high-level overview of what we were thinking back in Note 28, but here is what we have now planned. Day 1 – Lisbon to Porto We should arrive…
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Note 28 – 2024 Spring Trip Planning
I suspect that you’ve all been wondering where we planning to travel next. Well, it isn’t where we thought we’d be going when we returned from Iceland last September! I was going to wait a few weeks after my review of that trip and announce our next trip, but 3 weeks later it became apparent…
Notes By Nancy 