Vinte e Sete

Foi o deu para sentir neste passeio organizado pela Campo Aberto. Subindo pelo Trilho dos Incas, avançámos entre vegetação interessante e vista deslumbrante. Com mais ou menos dificuldade fomos trepando as lajes que marcavam o trilho.
Ao final das Lajes, parámos numa cumeeira que se vê na foto á sombra para atacar o farnel e retemperar energia. As Torres Éolicas e suas pás rotativas no cimo da Serra ameaçavam e muitos diziam o trilho ser impossível.
Afinal, tal como os moinhos de D.Quixote, os gigantes foram vencidos e passo a passo foi possível chegar ao cume. Sempre sob a batuta do incansável D. Mário Ribeiro que é quem nos leva por estes lugares deslumbrantes no maciço da Gralheira, na Serra da Freita.
Depois de descer até ás viaturas, por entre as cores primaveris houve ainda da tempo de visitar um castro, residência de tempos já há muito idos e para quem teve sorte, passeio no Land Rover! Nada melhor para acabar que as famossíssimas Pedras Parideiras, que encantam todos os que as vêm.

Para mais fotografias é só clicar na foto.

"Gralheira" is the name of a mountain region where we had a wonderful Hike. Not far from "Arouca", in the "Serra da Freita" mountain range. Our resourceful guide, Dr. Mário Ribeiro, always shows us the most amazing locations. It's always a pleasure to participate in the activities of "Campo Aberto". For more photos click on the one from this post.

Wow, last weekend was intense!

I had the visit of two good friends, Vera that came from Madrid and Ellen who flew from Amsterdam. As any weekend in Porto, we started on Friday off to the beach straight from the airport to catch some sun, and ended the day feasting on grilled fish and green wine.

Saturday started early with a trip to S. Pedro de Moel, where we joined a beach ultimate tournament. A lot of frisbees flying on a wonderful beach. Just click on the photo to get more photos. What was really amazing was the mix, we had experienced and new players, portuguese, german, dutch, but also colombian, belgian, spanish, italian, luxembourg... A great mix for a really well spent day. Lots of ultimate action on the sand and interesting people on the lines.

Sunday we did a tour of Porto that was... just right. Met more friends for lunch at Serralves Art Gallery, then the wine cellars in Gaia, a walk through the city and then to the main square.

Porto won the cup that day, and as we got to the main square lots of people were coming there to celebrate. Really loud and happy. Day ended of course with a "Francesinha", the typical dish from Porto. It would be really hard to top this weekend! Definitely will remember it.

This is post is for Dave and Rosie, who took the time to show us a bit of the beautiful county Cork. There's a lot of photos about that on Flickr, but here is one from a bird we saw on the shore.

Of course I had the post this one, after all the Godwits were omnipresent in our conversations adn really took a new meaning for me after this holidays.

Uma tentativa não totalmente bem sucedida de olhar para o passarinho, mas fotografias de um dia muito bem passado nas ilhas Aran, ao largo da costa Oeste da Irlanda, em que passeámos de bicicleta.

É só clicar na foto...

This and other not really brilliant photos of an excellent day spent cycling on the Aran Islands, off the irish West coast.

Just click on the photo...

I'm back from a fantastic week! It started with a Ultimate Frisbee tournament in Dublin, where I played at the pick-up team, "Nobody Loves Me". That was an amazing experience, and Camy was the official photographer.
We had then the change to drive a bit around beautiful Ireland ending in Cork, where Rose and David hosted us and showed us around. I even had the chance to practise with the local team.
Good thing that Ryanair makes travelling so much simpler.