Porto, Portugal Day #4
September 18, 2018Final Day. Was going to be a long day as our flight wasn’t until 10 pm that evening. Today was a ‘tick all the remaining boxes’ days. This started early with queuing up for tickets to get into a bookshop!! WTF! 5 Euro each. Why? Because it has a ‘swirly’ staircase that Harry Potter author…
Porto, Portugal Day #3
September 17, 2018Wine day!! We had a wine tour booked – 100 euro each & was an ‘all-dayer’. This is the website & the tour we took – https://www.bagoduva360.com/douro-port-moscatel-tour Pick up was 8.30am but they were running late so we went for the standard of ‘Coffee & Custard Tart’. There was 9 of us. We were in a…
Porto, Portugal Day #2
September 16, 2018Apparently, near us, people stay out all night!! It was noisy on & off until about 5 am! Day 2 started with a coffee & the custard tart things. Today was a big wandering day & where we were going to venture over the bridge. The bridge (one of 6) – Holy shit it was…
Porto, Portugal Day #1
September 15, 2018Holy shit! what a bastard early start! Alarm 4 am & cab at 4.30! Luton airport keeps on changing!! New drop off zones & loads of new shops. Cheeky Camden IPA @ 5 am. Nothing on the plane #unheardof So foggy in Porto. Came through what looked like clouds & there was the runway! Got…
Montenegro Day #7
July 7, 2018The final full day. Tomorrow we travel home. There was also a small matter of England v Sweden in the Quarterfinal of the World Cup. It had not escaped our notice that despite where we were staying was pretty small, that most of the other people staying were Swedish! Today was breakfast with a view.…