We woke up early, gathered our things and prepared to leave the Algarve area. We started driving towards Porto, but stopping first at the Lisbon airport to see if we could find David's missing backpack. After going from the car rental to the airport police lost and found with no luck, we continued our drive north. We had planned to stop in Nazare, but (we thought) we had an appointment for a tour of the Coimbra University at 2:30, so we had to skip that for now. We found the University and got to the meeting place on time, only to find that we had not, in fact, booked the tour. Instead, we wandered around the campus a little bit.
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Mosaic floor where we thought we were meeting our tour.
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| This and next four pictures were taken on the Coimbra campus |
Since we were all hot, we decided to stop in the town for cold drinks. We came upon a lovely park, and then got iced coffees.
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| Near park entrance |
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| Inside the park (this and next three pictures) |
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| Caramel iced coffee |
One thing I neglected to mention were the tolls throughout the country. They are frequent, and charge as much as $25 at a time!
We continued on our trip north to our rental house, which we realized, to our dismay, was quite a bit north of Porto. We followed the GPS, and found ourselves on what we thought was the right street, but couldn't find the right house. We asked directions only to find that we were in the wrong town! After driving around for another hour, we finally arrived at the beautiful rental, which is on top of a hill off of a dirt road! We quickly unloaded our things and then went out to find some dinner. Luckily, we found an amazing restaurant called Churrasqueira de Caldelas.
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| Pre-meal food |
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| David's veal |
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| Sue's sea bass - one of the best meals ever! |
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Raymond's mixed grill
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| Lori's veggie lasagna |
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