COIMBRA With revellers celebrating the festival of Sao Joao until the early hours, we begrudgingly awoke early the next morning to set out for Coimbra, a city that was formerly the capital of Portugal. Situated approximately halfway between Porto and Lisbon, Coimbra is home to the University of Coimbra – the oldest university in Portugal, dating back […]Read Post ›

Bidding farewell to Daniel’s family, we travelled two hours by car to Porto, Portugal. Daniel’s cousins graciously offered (code – insisted) to drive us across the border, from Spain to Portugal. It took 2.5 hours by car. Such a short distance, and yet we were in a new country! Blink, and you would almost miss the […]Read Post ›