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Pedras Rubras

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    • Day 54

      Fin du voyage de rêve

      June 11, 2023 in Portugal ⋅ 🌙 16 °C

      C’est ce matin 8 h40 heure de Porto, Portugal que nous avons quitté l’Europe pour Montréal à bord d’Air Transat, Airbus A321 neo.
      L’arrivée à Montréal est prévue pour : 10 h 55.

      C’est un retour chez-nous après une absence de 55 jours. Toute bonne chose à une fin 😉.

      Fin du Voyage 🎒 ✈️
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    • Day 2

      Rainy, Windy, Beautiful Porto

      October 17, 2023 in Portugal ⋅ 🌧 68 °F

      We flew into Areoporto Francisco Sá Carneiro and took the train to Trinidade and then to San Bento which is near the Cathedral of St. Michael which was a magnificent old church with carvings, tile work and gilding galore- it was breathtaking! After obtaining our Credencial for the pilgrimage, we were free to marvel more at the intricacies and the achitecture of the church and actually climbed the stairs (many!) up to the tower which afforded a bird’s eye view of the city and the River Douro. We walked across the King Luis I bridge and happened into a port tasting room that was pouring 10 year old bottles and the port was smooth and delicious. We checked into our hotel, The Poet’s Inn and then hiked along the river to where it joins the ocean, shopped and bought some groceries…all this while walking in pouring sheets of rain and high blustery winds! Our Altus ponchos kept us dry and even though the day was dreary and wet we powered through and got to enjoy beautiful Porto.Read more

    • Day 19

      Das Surf-Mekka

      May 14, 2023 in Portugal ⋅ 🌙 15 °C

      Nachdem wir unsere Akkus am Campingplatz aufgeladen hatten, ging es für uns gegen Mittag frisch, froh und munter weiter.

      Einzig die Batterie des Campers hat trotz Landstromanschluss nicht geladen und somit einen vollständigen defekt 🪫

      Auf unserer Tour nach Porto hielten wir zunächst am Praia do Baleal und bestaunten dort die vielen Surfer 🏄‍♂️ und wie sie mehr oder weniger auf den Wellen ritten 🌊

      Im Anschluss fuhren wir nach Nazare, das Surf-Mekka wo Wellen bis zu 25 Meter hoch werden können.

      Der Strand und die Promenade war extrem voll, leider gab es keine Surfer und keine Wellen da diese lediglich vom November bis Februar so extrem hoch sind.

      Im Anschluss fuhren wir bis Porto und aßen zu Abend bei McDonalds und probierten uns hier durch die Portugiesischen Burger 🍔

      Die letzte Nacht verbrachten wir mit einer Runde Karten.

      Morgen geht es für Vicky in den Flieger nach Deutschland ✈️
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    • Day 24

      Homeward Bound, leaving on a high note

      June 23, 2023 in Portugal ⋅ 🌙 17 °C

      3 am airports never vary.... People sleeping in contorted strange positions, sorting and repacking bits, tired looking returnees , much more alert departing vacationers. I'm waiting for our gate to be announced for our 5 am flight, and pondering my budgetary choices 😅. Actually we saved a lot on this flight, it was worth it.

      Our last day in Portugal was an absolute delight, I think we saw the best of the best. We got the first morning rabelo boat tour, about 8 of us on a peacefully gliding Duoro River trip. Rabelos are the boats used in the past to transport casks of port down to Porto, now they are used for tourism. These pretty, small wooden boats are a much more authentic experience than a crowded cruise boat day trip. Although the real river cruise boat we saw looked very tempting!

      Then the plan is to head for Sabrosa, the town 16km away that I've just read it's the birthplace of Ferdinand Magellan. As I explain it to Brad, if Magellan could attempt to circumnavigate the globe in the 1520s, then surely we could drive that short distance to visit! The only difficulty is that there is a price to be paid for breathtaking views, and that price is often a white knuckle drive. Incredibly gorgeous scenery does distract a bit from hair raising switchback elevation gains though, and we're soon enough in Sabrosa.

      A last picnic lunch in a park under trees, and a short walk through the old town leads us to Magellans birth home. We pay our quick respects there. I can't imagine the vision and drive of a person born in 1480, to believe the impossible could be done, and set out to do it. It's really sad he didn't quite make it, dying en route.

      We visit the nearby Sabrosa wine cooperative, where we have an excellent personal tour with a young local. For 4 euro each, this includes tastings. And it's a wonderful layout, the cooperative has kept much of the old equipment to display. An old copper still, which is no longer permitted to be used, manual filling and corking machines, we can see the effort required in the old days compared to the gleaming efficiency of the new. A bit less poetic, of course.

      And far less dangerous, as we are shown enormous vats where the grapes have their initial press. Once the liquid is siphoned out for the next step, even to this day, someone physically must crawl through a tiny door and scrape the mast out!

      A fascinating visit, not at all what we expected. So, down a routine highway, into a routine hotel, and here we are entering that vast complex system of transport. To be thrown out the other end many hours from now, jet lagged, achy, desperate for fresh air....and happy to be back on home ground!
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    • Day 74

      Zeit für Qualitytime 👨‍👩‍👧✈️🇪🇸🌊

      October 18, 2023 in Portugal ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C

      Es ist soweit: Das Kapitel Solo-Travelling ist beendet. Zumindest vorerst. Jetzt heißt es nämlich erstmal quality time genießen. Und es ist verrückt, während Frida in Porto auf unsere nächsten gemeinsamen Abenteuer wartet, fühlt es sich an nach Hause zu fliegen und das, obwohl ich meine Eltern auf Mallorca und nicht in Deutschland besuchen gehe. Beweist doch wieder einmal, dass Zuhause nicht nur ein Ort sondern auch Personen sind. 🧡Read more

    • Day 2

      Arrival in Portugal

      March 30 in Portugal ⋅ 🌧 10 °C

      We made it to Porto, Portugal at 12:15pm!! We found our tour guide, Antonio, who led us and the other half our our group to our tour bus. Our driver, Francisco, drove us in our luxury big bus to our hotel. We were able to quickly drop off our bags, wash our faces, meet downstairs to walk around the city. We went to a really neat food market. Vendors had booths of Portugal foods and wine. We all chose our food and had a beer or wine. Walked around the town, for the afternoon. Came back freshened up and had dinner at an old curch/monk house. Delicious food. Angus steak, potatoes kale and the best chocolate cake ever. Came back to hotel for a night cap. What a great group of people. Lots of fun. In bed by 10. Up at 6am for breakfast and looking forward to another fun day today. Happy Easter everyone!
      Sara - Happy Birthday to my sweetest daughter 💗-
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    • Day 16

      Psalm 134 Bless the Lord

      June 16 in Portugal ⋅ ☁️ 59 °F

      Today is the final Psalm of Ascent, a call for us to Bless the Lord.

      Blessing the Lord today means looking back on these two weeks with deep gratitude for how God met us each and every day and how we were changed by his presence.

      As we fly home this morning we pray that we would continue to Bless God with humble and grateful hearts and with our deeds and words in the weeks to come.
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    • Day 20

      Fin du Voyage

      October 11 in Portugal ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C

      Après plus de 20 jours de voyage nous voilà rendu à la conclusion de cette aventure 2024. Après plusieurs hésitations de la part de Diane à savoir on y va on n’y va plus et les changements de destinations Grèce, Corse Suisse et Autriche et bien le Portugal à gagner la loterie. Il a fallu une longue période d’hésitation pour finalement acheter les billets d’avion.

      À part notre crevaison avec l’auto on peut dire que l’expérience a été positive. Oui on aurait aimé peut être un peu plus de soleil mais somme toute en Algarve le soleil était au rendez vous. Les aventures de trouver les appartements amènent un peu de stress mais en fin de compte c’est ça l’aventure.

      Ce matin notre voiture était au poste à 4:45 je penses que Diane n’a pas tellement apprécié le trajet cette fois ci le chauffeur était un peu trop rapide pour elle mais le stress du voyage amplifie souvent les événements. Aucun problème d’embarquement et le vol se déroule bien malgré un peu de turbulences qui font sursauter ma partenaire de voyage.

      Il fait bon de pensée tout de même quand dans quelques heures nous serons de retour dans nos affaires notre lit, la routine et les amis.

      Comme Félix le chantait si bien… Moi mes souliers ont beaucoup voyagés……. Mais la mes jambes, sont bien fatiguées avec Plus de 240,000 pas.

      Diane et Daniel

      P.S. Méli-mélo de photos et deux vidéos superbe que l’on a bien aimé
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    • Day 107

      Nice surprise after sudden wake up

      September 6, 2019 in Portugal ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C

      I actually had two mornings. Or two wake ups:
      First was at 5.30h in the morning after just 3hours of sleep. Actually I told myself, that I wanted to take care more about myself and look that I get enough sleep. As sleep is the best medicine. I think, that the one night in Santiago with a good 7hours of sleep was the reason, why my hurting tooth got well again just in one day.
      Nevertheless I offered a very special person to be the private chauffeur from the airport-hostel to the airport. It was just 1km, but a very dark und dodgy area for a woman to walk alone at night.
      So I really got woken up by her at 5.30h and I played the private taxi driver. It was early, but it was a pleasure for me to do her this favor.
      I came back from the airport and parked my van somewhere in nowhere close to the airport.
      Luckily I could manage to fall asleep again,... Just got woken up a couple of times by some aggressive dogs, who were barking whenever someone passed by.
      So my second wakeup was, when someone was knocking at my van at about 9 o clock. I climbed down from the first floor of my mobile castle to the ground floor to see who is knocking.
      I immediately told them: "sorry!" because I was blocking their gate. At night I was not aware that it was a gate, because it looked like a normal wall.
      My feeling of "feeling guilty" and "the people must be angry with me" vanished after seconds when the guy told me, that a Volkswagen bus like mine is his dream. He told me that he has the older version, VW T3 from 1983, and we were chatting in half Spanish, half Portuguese about the VW Bullies.
      He asked me if I would like to come in for a coffee, what I really appreciated.
      I had blocked the gate of a workshop, where they modify cars to be able to transport disabled people and wheelchairs.
      I got in, we were talking, and finally they were even drawing their dreams in my hexagons.
      We had a funny time!
      They told me, that they will be in Germany next week at a exhibition for their show cars and after I told them, that I was working as a car designer for some years and did the Papamobile for pope Benedikt, we exchanged our contact data. I will update that later.
      That was a really nice company and really friendly, warm-hearted people!
      https://m.facebook.com/WestyT31983/
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    • Day 69

      Der Flug von Porto nach Madrid

      November 26, 2022 in Portugal ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C

      Der Flug von Porto nach Madrid war angenehm und für mich auch sehr emotional 😢🥹. Als wir in Flugzeug gesessen sind ist mir so richtig bewusst geworden, dass die Reise endgültig zu Ende geht...Wir haben so viel schönes und unvergessliches erlebt, dafür ein großes DANKE.

      Die Menschen hier in Portugal haben mich sehr beeindruckt vor allem ihre Offenheit, Herzlichkeit und Freundlichkeit 🥰🫶.

      Und der da oben( ich meinte der Papa also Gott) hat uns sogar Heute zum Abschied einen wunderschönen Tag vergönnt mit einem wunderschönen Sonnenuntergang, welche wir aus der Vogelperspektive anschauen dürften 🥰❤️☀️🫶🙏
      Ich bin für das alles sehr Dankbar.
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