A day off work today, breakfast at 9.00am, diaries written, picnic made ready for the off by mid-day. Our first mode of transport was the local bus service into the town centre,a lot of the shops were closed because its sunday but we managed to do a little shopping anyway, then ice cream and more shopping (much to Harrisons dissapointment) then down to the river to eat our picnic and a boat trip on the river, which was our 2nd method of transport, follwed by a v...

Woke to a wonderful sunny day in Coimbra, 9.30am start with everyone smothered in sun cream and comfortable walking shoes ready for an interesting and packed day. Started off at bibliotea Joanina, what an amazing place, could not take pictures :( but found some on the web check out bibloteca joanina, so many books, such an ornate library with a prison underneath it, but a prison with a difference - the richer population were the only ones chosen to go there so t...

Here we are around a tree, look at the bark it looks like its sagging but we dont know its name - maybe one of you can help us and tell us what kind of tree it is. Laure thinks it could be the 'whomping tree' from Harry Potter :) Lauren has also been talking to some Portugesse st,udents today - in Portuguesse :) Scott did some weeding and digging plants. Becky played Boccia today and planted some viola. Jane and Andrew aka George and Mildred are keeping ever...

We have all had a busy day today, working on the farm, we picked various leaves, and then we made something, but you will have to wait to find out what :) When we got back to the hotel today we worked on our diaries and wrote about what we have been doing. The weather has been overcast and it rained a bit so we decided that rathe than go out for sometthing to eat we would have an indoor picnic, fresh bread rolls, ham, turkey, various types of cheese, vine tomato...

Hello everyone from Lauren, Jonathan, Andrew, Rebecca, Harrison, Tommy, Jane and Scott. Today we went to the farm and planted lettuce, looked at aromatic plants, picked some of them and potted them on, we grromed horses, and walked them around the yard, Lauren helped pick some hooves. Lauren here hi to all my friends at college and my family. I am really enjoying my self in portugal I am enjoying my self looking at the animals and I enjoyed grooming horses and I...