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November 10 - Portugal, Day 24
November 10, 2019 - The food experience here in Portugal does not receive high grades from us. On the other hand, our dinner on Friday night...
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November 9 - Portugal, Day 23
November 09, 2019 - This morning the day did not seem very promising. After breakfast, we returned to our room with low expectations for the...
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November 8 - Portugal, Day 22
November 08, 2019 - This is my impressionistic rendering of a Porto street scene.
Today we returned our rental car and moved to another hot...
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November 7 - Portugal, Day 21
November 07, 2019 - Today, our first day in Porto, was a slow day. I took only one roll of film (or the equivalent of).
The day varied with...
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November 6 - Portugal, Day 20
November 06, 2019 - Today was foggy with a constant light rain. Combine that with the fact that we also disliked our hotel room in Peso da R...
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November 5 - Portugal, Day 19
November 05, 2019 - Today we left the village of Tabuaco, where we had spent two nights in this guesthouse, Casa do Brasao,which was a 17th...
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November 4 - Portugal, Day 18
November 04, 2019 - It rained last night and into this morning, but had let up just before we left Tabuaco. On the way down the valley road...
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November 3 - Portugal, Day 17
November 03, 2019 - Today we were heading to the Douro River area. We first headed west along the motorway, retracing our route from two day...
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November 2 - Portugal, Day 16
November 02, 2019 - This is the view from the balcony of our hotel room in Vagos. It's much better than you might think.
It may be nostalgi...
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November 1 - Portugal, Day 15
November 02, 2019 - Before we left Viseu this morning, we went for a stroll in the old centre of the city. It was quite dark and not very at...
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October 31 - Portugal, Days 13 and 14
October 31, 2019 - This blog covers two days because yesterday's internet connection was very slow, probably because we were in such a remo...
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October 29 - Portugal, Day 12
October 30, 2019 - This morning was sunny but with fog swirling around us at lower elevations.
Following breakfast, we decided to visit th...
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October 28 - Portugal, Day 11
October 28, 2019 - This morning we left Casa Vinhao, where we've been for the last five nights. This photo shows the sitting area of the ho...
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October 27 - Portugal, Day 10
October 27, 2019 - This was a quiet day, by choice. When Veda checked the time on her FitBit she could not figure out why it was an hour be...
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October 26 - Portugal, Day 9
October 26, 2019 - Another sunny warm day, so we decided to visit Peniche, on a headland jutting out into the Atlantic.
En route, I stoppe...
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October 25 - Portugal, Day 8
October 25, 2019 - Today dawned bright and sunny. It was cool in the morning, but warmed up considerably later in the day.
Our first stop...
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October 24 - Portugal, Day 7
October 24, 2019 - We arrived at our current lodgings late yesterday afternoon - late because our GPS sent us off route. At an intersection...
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October 23 - Portugal, Days 5 and 6
October 23, 2019 - Yesterday was the day to check out of our Lisbon hotel and set out on the road. We picked up our rental car mid-day and...
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October 19 - Portugal, Day 2
October 19, 2019 - Our hotel, Hotel Mundial, offered an excellent breakfast buffet, with numerous choices. A great start to the day.
Since...
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October 18 - Arrival in Portugal
October 18, 2019 - We drove to Toronto yesterday, and then Hannah drove us to the airport to catch our flight to Portugal.
The flight on A...
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