Portugal Photos!

First morning in Porto, Portugal. Sitting in a lovely park eating a picnic lunch.


The sun setting behind a castle at the beach we spent the afternoon at.


Emile and I getting into the Portugal spirit the night of the very sad Portugal vs France game. The night was still good and surprisingly everyone´s spirits were still high!

After 2 nights in Porto Emile parted from us and we went on ourseparatee ways. We caught a bus to Lisbon, the countries Capital, to see what it as a city had to offer.


Tamzin and Me having a self photo in the bottom main square in Lisbon, the Capital of Portugal. This was just down the road from our hostel, a very good find at the last minute!


The bottom main square by the river, a busy place during the day with tourists.


An almost identicalpicturee, though this one shows how beautiful Lisbon was by night. It stayed busy well into the early hours of the morning, with street performers and pedestrians creating an amazing atmosphere!


Me next to a beautiful fountain at the top main square, it was such a hot day that we stood there for a while after the photo just for the spray that was comming off of it.


A photo of me up on the castle in Lisbon. It was an amazing castle right up on the top of the only hill in Lisbon, so from there you can see the whole of the city, all the way out to the ocean.


A lovely view of the city.


Dont really know how to explain this one... the Lisbonians (our made up word for people originating from lisbon) seemed to have something for cows. We named this one foamy cow as he was the one at the end of our street. Guess you had to be there...

That brings us to the end of our time in Lisbon, thoug this is a very short account of what happined, I didnt even go into our time in the irish bar with tamzin singing for beer, or bartering with taxi drivers, but that wil have to wait for my return to our lovely home country.

This brings me to Lagos! After a long bus ride we arrived in the little town of Lagos, and found our home for the next 5 nights at a place called Pachecos Guest House. It was cool as it was just an apartment with different locks put on the 3 bedrooms, good for meeting people!

We discovered that there are very few portugese people in Lagos, it is essentially the fiji of europe!



This was the 'Big' beach where we decided to spend our first day. We were told it was the kind of place where you had to go, but not spend to much time, because of the amazingly beautiful small beaches close by. So we got this over with, as well as gave our skin a little shock of seeing a lot of sun for a long time...

Following are some pictures of the small beaces where we spend the rest of our time. They are AMAZING!









The night life in Lagos was crazy 7 nights a week, and we saw ALOT of it. There are countless amonts of photos from this but I will put in a few of the best for those who want to see it!









That is all from me for now. Currently we are in Madrid, after staying 2 nights in the south of spain at a place called Seville. A spain blog will come soon i promise! Send emails or post comments, its great to hear from you, i havent forgotten you!

Lots of love for Spain,
Vin

Portugal!!!

And we find ourselves in Portugal!

We flew into a place called Porto on the night of the 4th, just in time to see Germany loose to Italy, which put me in very bad spirits. That soon changed though as we realised how anazing Porto was! The people are so relaxed and friendly, a very welcome change after spending time on the london underground during rush hour!

The next day we set out to find the beach, a walk that took about 2 hours, but was very well worth it in the end. It was a white sand surf beach, with freezing cold atlantic water, but this didnt matter as it was 30 degrees out and I was swimming no matter what. Even at neck depth I could still see my feet at the bottoma and the little fish swimming around!

That night was the very sad game between Portugal and France. The portugese attitude to the game is different though, and even though they lost everyone was still very happy that night when me and emile went out on the town. The night life was wicked, though we found ourselves at a place called Vogue with a bouncer who thought he was to cool for us...

Me and Tamzin then caught a bus to Lisbon, the country´s capital. After a little while we managed to find accomadation in an amazing place in the center of lisbon. We had a room on the 5th floor with a balcony looking out onto a street with restaurants and buskers. It was quite a cool experience.

Lisbon is a very beautiful city, with a castle in the middle of it on a big hill. I visited the castle and hopefull soon i can find a computer where i can upload photos, so i can showw everyone how amazing it was!

We are now about to head off to the south of portugal, to a place called Lagos. It is ment to be one of the most beautiful places in portugal with amzing beaches and very hot temperatures, so i think 5 days of lying on beaches is waithing for me!

Anyway that is only a brief description of the country that I have grown to love, to decribe everything good about it would take another few hours...

Email me or comment on here, i love hearing from everyone!

Love to all,
Vin

End of Berlin and London

Carrying on from my last post...

The following day Mark and I went to Checkpoint Charlie, the American controled section of the Berlin Wall. There is a museum there with all the information on Germany before the collapse of the wall. It was quite amazing and neither of us really knew that all this stuff was going on only 15 years ago.





As the weather had been so lovely (around 32+ everyday), the next day we decided to visit one of the lakes of Berlin. Although I cannot remember the name, the lake itself was quite nice and warm, with lots of nice area around it to sunbath.



That trip followed with a visit to a place called Fan Mile, a designated world cup watching area, consisting of about a mile of very wide road sectioned off and filled with giant TV's, Food, Beer, and thousands of screaming fans. We watched the Brazil vs Ghana game and although it was 3 - 1 for Brazil, the atmosphere was still amazing!



This day was a long one, as after watching the 2nd game of the day (France vs Spain) at Marks sisters place, while indulging in some lovely german beer, we decided to head out into the night. We encountered a few strange things that night, but filally after meeting some nice, though slightly annoying scottish girls, we found our way to a all night club called Cafe Burger where we stayed until we stumbled home at around 7 or 8 in the morning.







The next day was a quiet one, as we jsut visited Marks Grandma and Auntie, with whom we sat in a park and drank coffee with. It was quite a nice day, and thankfully it wasnt as hot, it had dropped to around 28. Marks sister cooked us a lovely dinner that night, and my help in preparing it was entertaining Yoko, marks neice. She is such a cute little girl!



I then flew back to London the following day, and have spent the last 4 days relaxing in London at Alices house. We went to the Theater on my first night here, and saw a show from apparntly one of the most famous playrites ever, directed by one of the best directors of this time. It was really good! I watched the England Portugal game in a pub , where i was unable to express my joy of Portugal winning, as i do like the idea of keeping all of my teeth in my mouth. Everyone there was extreemly pissed off and angry, so i just pretended to be sad...

Tonight I am seeing my second cousin once removed or whatever she is, which should be nice, and then tomorrow afternoon I am flying out to Portugal! where i can show my thankfulness that they won, and watch the semifinal in a place where i hope the fans will be a little more peaceful! I hope this weather holds, i cannot wait for the lovely beaches of Portugal!

Anyway thats all for now, I will write again as soon as possible,

Lots of Love,
Vin