Here is a view right next to the Douro river. There are beautiful buildings and outside cafes that we walked by. I wouldn't say this is tourist-y at all. Barcelona was much more tourist-y. The weather this day was beautiful and we had a blast. The river and bridge were amazing and there were even speed boats in the water cruisin around!
This bridge was great, we walked on it! It is in LOTS of post-cards (family watch out! I've sent you some). It was great, and again the weather treated us awesome!
The coast in Porto. I'd recommend anyone to travel here!
After we walked down the coast and on the bridge we had these great singers sing to us a few songs :) They were quite gentleman and all of the ladies they put on a big coat to keep us warm, it was quite cute.
This is the flan dessert at Gil's birthday party. He had his birthday at a really nice restaurant with endless food and drink and we met all of his close friends in Cesar, Portugal. We are so happy we went to Cesar. This is a small village in Portugal, and we also visited Porto, which is obviously a much bigger city. We stayed with Gil's family and they even cooked us Sunday brunch! It was amazing!
Gil is the shirtless one! He backpacked for a year through South America and he is who we were staying with. He is the best host in the entire world. He showed us great things, we were very very fortunate. We saved a lot of money staying with him rather than in hostels. His family (mom and dad) didn't speak too much english but they were so nice to us and had a BEAUTIFUL house in Cesar.
Here is a picture of our whole group at the dinner for Gil's birthday. Tad is the guy from San Fran, Zuzi from San Fran, Sara (the red head) from San Fran, Alicia (long brown hair) from Stout, though lives in Minnesota, and Kristie the Australian. Brittany is also on the left, from LA though studies in San Fran, Cali.
Gils YUUMMMY birthday cake!
We went to an actual PORTUGAL FUTBOL GAME! The yellow team is the team from Cesar and the black team is the opponent which is in the Division one (Cesar is the local team).
At the soccer Game.
The futbol game
Being the amazing host Gil was, one night he actually took us to a "student night". There was a band and free beer at a stadium near the university. This is the band, we had a great time and never would've known of half the things in Portugal without Gil showing us. He said it was an awesome time to come. 1. for the student night here with bands and such. 2. his birthday and 3. we were there on a Sunday for his mother to cook us an awesome and traditional Portugese meal.
Portugal is VERYY VERYYYY cheap. This burger was 3 euros and we had fries and a drink as well! It was awesome!
The tallest lighthouse in all of Europe here
We also got to spend time at the beach which was wonderful!
Here is all of us on the streets of Porto :)
These are the appetizers before the meal. Our main meal is below but these little things were cold, but they are a breading with seafood in the middle.
This translates into the "little french girl" > We don't know why. It was delicious and very heavy! There was sausage, ham, tons of meat and cheese - it was our first dish in Portugal EVER!
The streets of Porto at night
All of us by the river/bridge/coast in Porto.
Right in the City.
All of us at the Wine Tasting.
This is the Winery Tour we did. Learned a lot about PORT Wine :)
We got to the beach at the right time! Just for sunset...
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