30 wonderful years, two fantastic kids and alot of work later, we've decided it's time to take an extended break and travel. There will be three phases to the time off - skiing in the Rockies, Europe by campervan and downtime on the farm. This blog is intended to keep family and friends informed as to our whereabouts in case they want to travel vicariously with us. Hasta la vista!

Wednesday, May 09, 2007

So Oporto was an amazing visit, with grand buildings on grand boulevards, a huge (closed) cathedral with what are close to slums around it, very steep alleys and huge store houses of Port. White port, vintage port, tawny port and ruby port. Yup, we tried them all at Graham“s, and a couple of restaurants. Dinner in a beach bar watching the sun go over Toronto.

Off to Spain through the hills and plains, with storks (no wonder there is so much construction here, the storks are everywhere presumably doing their deliveries) and wind turbines. Salamancha cathedral is the most amazing building! Every other church can only try to represent this. A very neat central plaza, like in San Sebastian but bigger, so maybe the bulls were bigger here. Lots of Uni students here give it a younger vibe than many of the Spanish places we have been.

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I hope you saw some university kids staking their friend to the ground with croquet mallets!

8:11 AM

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Actually Red, that was with the wickets (or whatever the little arches are called), not the mallets, which is what you hit the ball with. We hope you have not been malleting your fellow scholars. M+P

7:43 AM

 

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