The first day we drove halfway through France, we spend the night there and the day after we went to Spain.
We drove along the northern coast. There we went for our first swim in the sea!
Then we took a rest in Llanes. And there was a strange thing going on at te bars... if you look close to the picture, you see the waiter holding a bottle over his head and poring something in a glass which he held very low. We didn't find our until the end of our holiday what they were doing. But now we know, it was a type of apple-cider which the pore this way to filter it (b.t.w. it tastes awfull)
The day after that we had a long ride, we stayed in a very small, but nice town called �rdenes, with only one hotel. We had a great meal, in a pulperia. My spanish is not so good, so I did not know what it was. The menu was in spanish only, well that was hard, so I picked just something with garlic (the only word I understood from the menu). Big suprice, a pulperia is a restaurant were they almost only serve squid. But it tasted great...
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In the morning we went to Santiago the Compostella were we had our breakfast in the parc (bread with sardines hmmmm) |
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Then we finaly reached Portugal
Alien invation???
NO!!!
It is Marcel standing on the other side of a tunnel through the dunes, to get from the camping to the sea.
This was on a camping near Esposende, we were almost the only tourists there, the rest of the people were portuguese.
The day after we went to see the stairs of Bom Jesus in Braga
And passed a beautifull church in Guimar�es
on our way to Porto were we stayed a few days
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Porto is one of my favourite cities in the world! That is why we stayed a few days, also because we wanted to taste and by some Port-wine And, Yes, I bought the bottle of 54-year-old Port which I tasted the year before. |
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These are the bottles we bought, from left to right: 20-year-old-tawny from Grahams, 20-year-old-tawny from Vasconcellos, 1980 Colheita from Kopke, 10-year-old white-lacrima from Burmeister, THE 54-year-old-tawny also from Vasconcellos |
Then we went to visit a ruine in Leiria.
I knocked at the door... But nobody was home... So we just took a look around.
Actually it was very nice ruine, you had to pay a small fee to get in, but it was worth while.
There was only one thing, I had a travell-guide and it told that we would have a nice view from the ruine on to Pine-woods, well, I think the article was very old, because all you could see were houses... hmmm...
Then we went to Nazar�, were we stayed with a very nice lady.
In Nazar� a lot of people have rooms for rent to make some extra money.
If you go to the upper part of Nazar� with a cable car you will see this nice view. If you have seen the pictures of last year you can see the difference between low and high season.
On the day we left I saw some women drying sardines on the beach, I never saw this before (only on postcards)... beautiful sight
On our way to �idos we saw this nice windmill
 
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Then we went to Lisboa were we stayed for almost a week on an camping.
When we went shopping we saw this shoe-store with my capoeira name on it.
I was very curious what happend to the EXPO-terrain, if everything was still there.
The subway-station was finally finished and they have this nice modern comic "azulejos"
The entrance to the EXPO was tranceformed in to a big Mall, and some of the buildings were still there and used.
The aquarium is still a nice attraction and luckily not so busy as with the EXPO.
On the left picture you can see a squirrel, it visited us every day. If you can't find it move over the picture with your mouse.
On the right you can see me trying to make a fire.
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Here you can see that the portugese are very lazy (haha), they sit down while they get there money, or could it be that the money-machines are so slow? |
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Then we had to go back home :(, holidays were almost over.
On our way home we stayed at a smal camping near the spanish border.
There were a lot of blackberries, so I picked some, but they tasted like water... too bad.
Halfway home we made a stop in France near Poitier. We stayed there for a day to visit Futuroscope.
Actualy one day is way too short. It is a park were you can see al kind of movies, 360 degrees round, 3d-movies, realy crazy and impressive.
Here are some pictures of the cinema-buildings.
And that was the end.
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