Our Apartment After arriving in the dark last night, we discovered that our location in Braga, Praça Velha, wasn’t just kind of close to historic things, but it was just…
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Month: June 2022
Porto Day 6 (June 14) Expats Meetup
We had originally planned to take the train to Braga mid-day, but we learned that a group we follow on YouTube, Expats Everywhere, was planning a meetup at a Porto…
Read MorePorto Day 5 (June 13) Birds and Fado
We decided to find out if Porto's large Parque da Cidade was a wild or tame park, groomed or natural, shady or sunny. Some pictures we saw online made it…
Read MoreLisbon & Porto – Street Music
It's a holiday weekend here in Porto -- Portugal Day. We need to learn more about its history, but for now, it means that locals are happy for a long…
Read MorePorto Day 4 (June 12)
We decided to get out of the tourist center of Porto and explore some parks. We walked to Santa Caterina, which is a popular shopping street and a central bus…
Read MorePorto Day 3 (June 11) Atlantic Breezes in Matosinhos
Summer is not the best time to be a tourist in a city. It's been plenty hot on these brilliantly sunny days. Being tourists, wandering around, is draining and we…
Read MorePorto Day 2 (June 10)
Our Porto apartment, on Rua do Almada, had big glass doors at the back, overlooking gardens and backs of apartments and restaurants on the parallel street. It was a fairly…
Read MorePorto Day One (June 9th)
The train trip from Lisbon to Porto was fairly smooth and uneventful. The Lisbon Oriente train station had a beautiful geometric patterned sun shade The train was on time, we…
Read MoreLisbon Day Two (June 8th)
We had a slow start for the second day, but we decided to check out a few of the iconic scenic sites. We felt mostly pretty energetic, but didn’t want…
Read MoreLisbon Day One (June 7th)
As I write this, Pam and I are at the end of our second full day in Porto. I’m going back to review Lisbon, so it doesn’t get lost in…
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