PORTUGAL - 2011
The old capital of Portugal, GUIMARÃES, was our new WH-point during this trip to Portugal - as always a lovely country, where friends and 'friends you didn't know you had' did their very best to help us feel at home. Thank you so much Paula & Gabriel, Carmen, José and Yolanda, Andrés and the rest of you!
Previously, for instance in 2001, and 2004, we have thouroghly visited Porto, Lisboa, and the Douro valley.. (and lots of other interesting sites in Portugal) so now we profonded the knowledge of those sites (i.e. by living next door to Palacio da Bolsa, eating _under_ the famous bridges, listening to Fado downtown Lisboa and waking up with the astonishing view of Rio Duoro just a few steps away). We also introduced the competition to our travel companions by forcing them to pose close to the Unesco signs and letting them know of other unwritten competition laws...
The so called "long weekend" felt too short, and next time we need to stay a little longer, in time to better visit Lisboa and the Porto wine caves, enjoy the Fado again, and the southern parts of Portugal, and its wine!
Visited by Isabella, Dennis, Mats & Monica in September/October 2011 - during the late harvest. :)
