Told myself to write a travelogue each time when I'm back from holidays, but I never did.
Tried to keep maps, metro lines, travel info to help with my travelogue but seems like I never refer back to them then end of chucking them into the bin.

Anyways, time to recall what I have done in Portugal, obviously I can't rmb the name of the monument, statute, street/ building.

First impression of Porto- the most original place that I have ever visited, not commercialised nor crowded with tourist. The ppl there weren't too friendly nor too hostile but possibly they're not used to tourist or Chinese tourist? the way the look at us seems a bit strange. Alan told me Porto is quite hilly and he is right, well not quite I would say Very hilly, we kept walking uphills and downhills the whole days and usual me, I started get grumpy with all the walkings especially the uphill ones!! urrgh...

Portugal reminds me of Melaca especially when I looked on the stone road in Porto, we have exactly the same stone road in melaca, and some of the old buildings are like those I used to see in Melaca jonker street, the building were quite squeezy and with narrow balcony, some with flower pot decorations, but normally it was full with hanging clothes.

The place I love the most is the Douro River, where it separated Porto and Gaia, the night scene when I climbed up to Gaia was exhilarating! the lights were shinning bright on the other side of Porto, the Porto landscape seems to me like the Lego when I used to play when I was young.

I was wondering where does Porto get it's name, and my guess was confirmed by Alan, this city produce good Port wine, and therefore it is named after the city, I then confirmed it on wikipedia that as Porto was located at the estuary of Douro river and due to the weather, it allows cultivation of grapes =) I have tried some port wine in lincoln's inn, erm... not particularly like the taste though.

A little downside of Porto or shall I say Portugal is the food, it's just nothing much choices up to us, but fries, steak and pork chop!

Okie I have writen too much about Porto seems like I have neglected the capital of Portugal, Lisbon. Well, Lisbon isn't too bad, quite a bit of attraction to cover, however I still deeply impressed by Porto, maybe of the rich herritage in Porto which made me deeply attracted to the city. But ony thing I was feeling lucky when I was in Lisbon, We managed to get involved in the tourism festival, awww wat a nice experience!


The Belem Tower was a nice experience too, Me and Alan don't need to pay for entrance coz we have a student ID, well mine student ID was expired, luckily the guy was a bit blurred and let us through =) wat a lucky escape. The Belem tower was a symbol of Portuguese discovery age, also we took pic with the monuments of discoverer. To be honest, I was a bit lack of taking pictures due to the hectic journey but luckily Alan insisted.