Well hello, how are you all? Jarratt and I are doing well, currently lapping up the sun and sand here in beautiful Portugal. But before we rub it in too much... a quick update pre our London departure.
We have officially left Angel and are homeless, having spent the last 4 nights in Old Blimey camped out in Bec and Dave's sauna :) Whilst there we managed to spend two days playing happy tourists, visiting London Dungeon as well as Madamme Tussards and the Walkie for the ABs vs Australia in the union. Then early Monday, and I mean like 2:30AM EARLY!!! we made our way by bus, and bus, to Stansted airport for our flight into Porto.
Monday saw us explore the old town, which included the Se Cathedral, Bento train station, the remains of the wall among other things. We also climbed the Torre Dos Clerigos for an amazing view over all of Porto. We also had a very interesting time ordering a portugese burger from a local snack bar. Then spent the rest of the day Siesta-ing and eating Portugese chicken. Very enjoyable.
Today we spent much of the day walking along the river before settling into a lovely lunch at Palacio de Cristal of portugese chicken (again! Becs new favourite) and EGG TART! Yummo!!! We then headed back into town where we visited Calem port wine cellar where we treated to a tasting and tour, both very enjoyable. We made a few purchases as gifts as well as a few bad jokes including bec being "tawn" as to which port to purchase. This afternoon we have enjoyed an afternoon of sunburn and watching the hotel owners son chasing the resident dog with
our camera. I guess its all part of the fun of travelling!
Tomorrow we plan to board a 9:00am bus to Lisbon and unless our current hospitality gets the better of us we will update you all from further south in the next day or two.
Untill then here are some current happy snaps....
We have officially left Angel and are homeless, having spent the last 4 nights in Old Blimey camped out in Bec and Dave's sauna :) Whilst there we managed to spend two days playing happy tourists, visiting London Dungeon as well as Madamme Tussards and the Walkie for the ABs vs Australia in the union. Then early Monday, and I mean like 2:30AM EARLY!!! we made our way by bus, and bus, to Stansted airport for our flight into Porto.
Monday saw us explore the old town, which included the Se Cathedral, Bento train station, the remains of the wall among other things. We also climbed the Torre Dos Clerigos for an amazing view over all of Porto. We also had a very interesting time ordering a portugese burger from a local snack bar. Then spent the rest of the day Siesta-ing and eating Portugese chicken. Very enjoyable.
Today we spent much of the day walking along the river before settling into a lovely lunch at Palacio de Cristal of portugese chicken (again! Becs new favourite) and EGG TART! Yummo!!! We then headed back into town where we visited Calem port wine cellar where we treated to a tasting and tour, both very enjoyable. We made a few purchases as gifts as well as a few bad jokes including bec being "tawn" as to which port to purchase. This afternoon we have enjoyed an afternoon of sunburn and watching the hotel owners son chasing the resident dog with
our camera. I guess its all part of the fun of travelling!
Tomorrow we plan to board a 9:00am bus to Lisbon and unless our current hospitality gets the better of us we will update you all from further south in the next day or two.
Untill then here are some current happy snaps....
Our Hamburger (?)
Us at the Harbour. The tall building on the opposite port is the Torre dos Clerigos
Bec at Porto Harbour (Ponte d'luis is the bridge behind)
J in Calem port wine cellar.
3 comments:
Well it's a very nice sauna...
Glad you got there OK, we are very jealous stuck at work. Blue has tomorrow off! Yay!
PS You must have taken the heatwave with you...back to typical London weather
Hey Guys,
Helder would be over the moon if he knew you were in his hometown.
Sounds like you are have a ball as per usual.
Not much happening back home apart from work. We are in the middle of rebranding the company which I have had a fair bit to do with so work has been quite busy.
Oh, we had Jim and Dianne stay with us for 2 nights on their way back to Tamworth. Jim was a little out of his comfort zone but he really seemed to enjoy himself as did Dianne. They arrived on Saturday morning around 9am and I picked them up from the bus station. Adrian got home from work around 12ish. We sat around talking for a couple of hours after our late BBQ and then we walked down to South Bank while Jim, Adrian and myself had a couple of ales. Dianne was busy looking at the markets. There was a dancing in the street night on so they loved that. We took the city cat back home and had a couple of snacks and went to bed. None of us were hungry cause we didn't have lunch until about 2.30pm.
Sunday we took them out to see their friends which live East of Brisbane. After that we had another late lunch (about 3pm) at the Story Bridge hotel. We then went home, watched the footy and curled up for the night in front of the heater (yes, the heater....it was bloody cold).
They did their own thing on Monday while we were at work and we dropped them back to the bus depot when we got home from work.
So apart from that, we haven't really been up to much.
I have some really sad, sad news....the Victory burnt down on Saturday night! Adrian was very upset as now he has to find somewhere else to do his sing alongs!
Take care,
Love ya!
Yo kids!
All I wanna say is
"EAT ALL THE PORTUGUESE CUSTARD TARTS YOU CAN GET YOUR SWEET HANDS ON."
And yes, that was MEANT to be in capitals.
I am very jealous!!!
Love lots,
Lucy and Tom XXXXXX
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