After awaking at the extremely early hours of the morning we were all set to start our first eight hour shift of the day going from 8:00am to 4:00pm. Easy morning with little issues except the loss of the sugar meaning the usual morning coffee was left out of the daily routine. Thankfully toast was present and we saw the morning shift out with only butter to unleash on our toast. With the help of old Toby we were able to utilise our time off with the next shift s...

Arrived in Lagos blistering temperatures finally found the hostel (Lagos central hostel) where we were staying/working. Smallish hostel, had everything we needed, shower, toilet, and kitchen etc. No where near as nice as the hostel we stayed in at Lisbon. We were placed in a room on the bottom floor just outside of the reception with the writing "Staff only please do not enter" on the door. We then went for a walk around the city and to the beaches. Amazing gold...

Coimbra a lot smaller then Porto but still a lovely old city. Visited the University there which is the main tourist attraction, and the ninth oldest in the world. Paid one euro extra to go up the tower which after a very long narrow walk up the staircase we made it to the top with a good view over the whole city. Back down and it was time for entrance into the Library. Very old, massive library. A lot of books I guess, massive pieces of art work on the roofs. Ov...

With the welcome text coming through from spark I had realised we had finally reached Portugal. After 6 hours in a bus with wifi that was as slow as a herd of snails traveling through peanut butter we were ready for Porto. After a long walk from the bus station and a few laps of Porto trying to find the hostel we finally made it, as at this stage my shoulders were dead which luckily for me we were staying at the Porto alive hostel. The next day we joined the free...