Bom Jesus and On To Porto

We spent the morning on the stairs at Bom Jesus. The stairs are beautiful and long. There are chapels for the stations of the cross as you go up. There is a tradition of walking the stairs on your knees for penance. My opinion is that you would have to have been pretty bad.
A cool element is the water powered elevator for those who don’t want or can’t make the stairs. Two small cars, one at the top and one at the bottom, are connected by cables. They fill a water tank in the top car and the extra weight makes it go down, pulling the bottom one up. Then they let the water out of the one on the bottom, fill the top one, and do it all again. When they let the water out it sounds like a giant toilet flushing.

Then on to Porto to meet up with family! My brother and Debbie’s sister are also married and we met up this evening in Porto. Great to see them!Read more