Okay today is a bad travel, day but that happens. I will blame Kerry for this, but deep deep down I don’t believe it’s his fault. Don’t get me wrong tO his face I’m berating him for his poor planning. Today up at 430 for 5am shuttle pick up for a 650 am take off from Madeira to Porto. Then a 11 hour layover until our flight up Bilbao Spain takes off So here we sit Over their we sat Let’s watch swinging door repairman work. One screwdriver b...

Today up bright and early as we needed to walk a few blocks to meet our bus, to take us to our wine tasting your. 8 am no bus 830 no bus, Portuguese time? 9 no bus but on its way 930 arrived Oh well periwinkle and sue had a chance to meet four 50-60 yrs old ladies from Australia who were having a grand old time. They were touring around and then had plans to walk 7 days on the Camino trail. Cool if you know what that is, which I do. Anyway we made it to...

Periwinkle is in heaven. Cats cats cats. She throws treats down and 19 cats coming out of the woodwork to eat. OMG Today beautiful sunny Sunday so we are out of the sot at 1100am and headed to the warf. Today we walked and walked and walked and looked at souvenirs and walked then ate and walked. Then drank and walked Crossing back across the bridge we saw the famous? Bridge jumpers of Porto. In essence a 12 yr old kid stands on top guard rail while his...

Todays weather was like a fall rain day in Winnipeg with periodic drizzle and winds. But since Kerry and I did some incredible research on Porto we discovered that Porto is renowned for its francesinho sandwich. So then, who makes the best sandwich in Porto we asked? We came up with the top five restaurants serving this delightful master piece, and off we went in search of belly happiness 1.3 km away. Our suite provides umbrellas so under the protection of...

Well we arrived in Porto Portugal. The mode of transportation between sintra and Porto was challenging to say the least. We knew we had to go from sintra back to the main oriente station. Then we hoped to take a train to Porto but online they showed all trains booked. Not believing that “All” the trains were booked we went to ticket area and sure enough all booked for another 5 hours. We then went to bus terminal and got on the bus for 20 euros each ( ba...