Some Post-Camino Travels

Since we finished out Camino we've reverted back to normal vacation form.  We spent a couple of days in Santiago, took a bus to Porto where we stayed 3 nights, train to Coimbra (a.k.a. "Little Lisbon") for 2 nights, and now we are back in Lisbon.  It rained overnight and the rain is just dying down this morning.

Some photos from the past few days:

The view from our Santiago Airbnb.

View of the Duoro Valley.

Port flight at one of the wineries we visited in the Duoro Valley.

Duoro boat cruise.  We are on a boat similar to the one in the background.

Casa de Musica in Porto, designed by Rem Koolhaus.  We saw a flamenco show there in the evening.

Visit to Taylor port house in Porto.

This rooster was just running around while we were doing out port tasting at Taylors.

Cobblestones!  Small/even on the left (good for walking); large/even on the right (good for driving).

Our Airbnb in Coimbra had a stovinkerator!

View of Coimbra from across the river.  Our Airbnb was up the hill (but not all the way up).  The university is on the very top.

Old monastery in Coimbra, built in the 1300's, abandoned in the 1700's due to flooding, and excavated abut 30-40 years ago.

View of Coimbra from the university.

Old library at the University of Coimbra.  It houses 60,000 books from 1755 or earlier.  No photos allowed, so I bought a postcard and took a picture of that.  Checkmate, suckers!

Just a plant growing randomly on a 500 year old wall.

Section of an old aqueduct (we think) in Coimbra.

Small coffee, in Spain they call it a cortado.  In Portugal it might be a pingo (Porto), a pingato (Coimbra) or a garrato (Lisbon).  We've never been able to successfully order one of these without a big discussion.