Ola! On Tuesday we packed up our stuff in Lisbon and hopped on the train for a three hour trip to Porto in Northern Portugal. Porto is located about a hundred kilometers west of the Douro region which is widely known for growing the grapes used to make Port Wine. As such, Porto is known …
We took a day trip to Sintra, a small town 30 minutes outside Lisbon, at the bottom of the Sintra mountains. We travelled by local train, which is a cross between Toronto’s subway and GO train systems. Sintra is what we were looking for when we thought of old, fairy tale European cities. We walked …
Well… we’ve safely arrived in the capital city of Portugal, Lisbon, or “Leez-bon” as the locals call it. The flight was pretty standard, though neither of us were able to sleep on the plane so we were left pretty tired by the time we arrived. The cabbies here are notoriously shady so you can actually …