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 33 – April 2024 Books
Total Books: 6 Total Pages: 1693 Longest: 378 Shortest: 193 Genres: 5 (Biography – 1, Historical Fiction – 1, Mystery – 2, Travel – 1, Thriller – 1) Last month I read Cynthia Ellingsen’s The Lost Letters of Aisling and really enjoyed it, so I downloaded another by her to start off April. A Play…
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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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