Jun 18, 2019
We had no problems getting from our apartment to the train station by metro. Door to door it only took 15 minutes. We were early which is always better than being late. As it was a nice day we went up to the platform to wait for our train which ended up being about 20 […]
Jun 17, 2019
Once again we eased into our final day in Porto on Sunday. But once we got going, we didn’t stop. We started by taking the metro to one stop further along and got off at General Torres which was next to a very gentle walk down to the river. A good stroll down with wonderful […]
Jun 16, 2019
While I slept in a bit, did laundry, washed my hair and worked on the blog Colin took off for a few hours on one of his walk abouts. Laundry machines here in Europe take much longer to do a load. What would take me 37 – 50 minutes at home to wash takes about […]
Jun 15, 2019
During our first full day here in Porto, I walked over seven miles. Despite the very cool 56F day, we started the day with an excellent free walking tour with ‘simply b UNIQUE’ which is different in that the tour is held to a maximum of 12 people and you are free to ask questions […]
Jun 14, 2019
Everything was going smoothly until we were right at the checkin desk and the conveyor belt stopped working. We had to wait a full 30 minutes before we could check in our luggage, we had our boarding passes but had to wait for the belt to work again. Good thing we checked in early. That […]