Best laid plans — I planned on staying one month in Portugal. I didn’t plan on returning early to the US to visit a friend in hospice. I planned on writing a detailed post on abundant treasures of Porto and Lisbon. I didn’t plan on having to move in five days. So, this post will be a pictorial of two cities, both of which are intoxicating and to which I’d like to return and explore further.
Then, on an upcoming hump Wednesday, I “plan” to write a synopsis of my near-year on the road as a TravelBeing.
(EeeGads, pardon the random order of photos — I can’t manipulate their placement and want to post today…)
Vitória Districto, Porto
UNESCO
World Heritage Site
My balcony boidy –
Jonathan Livingston
Vila Nova de Gaia looking to Porto across River Tagus
Livraria Chaminé Da Mota
Playin’ on Rua de Flores
Vitória street market, Porto
A New Orleans muffuletta in Portugal?
Artist Bardalo II,
Lisbon
Tribute to Fado music
Rossio Square, Lisbon
National Coach Museum
Lisbon
Santa Maria de Belém
Jeronimo Monastery, Lisbon
Grocery cod, Lisbon
San Francisco?
No, Rua de Bica, Lisbon
Monument to the Discoveries, Lisbon
Meeting friends on a bus
Miragaia district, Porto
1 Tram
Porto city to sea
the Atlantic
Porto and Lisbon do look beautiful and intoxicating Heidi!
Have you settled into a new place? What an exciting opportunity you have had to travel and meet people and see places that will always be a part of who you are….
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. said, “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.”
Joanna, Your comments stimulate and motivate! Thank you. Still in the middle of a move to the central coast, so rumination on the past year of travel is yet to come…peace, sister.