This morning I was up early to catch my plane to Riga. The flight was great and even arrived 20 minutes early. I caught a bus into the centre and there waiting were my two friends Inese and Jolanta. Today was Veterans day or Bear Slayers Day in Latvia so they had prepared a big feast to celebrate before we went down to the river to place candles in memory of fallen soldiers. The meal was amazing: Roast beef, baked potato pieces and a cabbage and meat type stew...

Managing to get to bed by 2:30am I had no trouble getting up at 7:00 ready for my 8am bus to the Porto airport. Telma arrived home at 7:00 from her big night out and was really kind and walked me to the bus station. In no time I was at the airport and on the plane. Arriving to Charleroi I had no dramas and made it to Patricia's house by 3:30pm. She greeted me with a lovely hug and whipped together some mushroom pasta for me. After a shower and a nap we made som...

So this Post will cover the last 4 days of my visit to Portugal and the wonderful city of Guimaraes. So after repeated efforts to say goodbye to this city and to my new friends I have to say I failed miserably and stayed put until 3 hours short of my flight out of Porto. So Tuesday was quiet a hard day as we had drank quiet a lot and hadn't gone to sleep before sun-up! Tuesday signals the start of what will be 4 Dinner Parties with amazing food, drinks, company ...

So after half the day sleeping Telma had to go to work so Cris and I decided we would do a big cook up and make something nice for when she got home! I had learned to make Chickpea Burgers from Patricia my amazing Couchsurfing host in Belgium so we decided to make them along with my now famous Australian Omelette! We headed to the shops and spent about an hour looking for Tahini or something we could supplement for it - unfortunately we couldn't find anything s...

So today we were all feeling hung over so we had a big sleep in and had a very easy start to the day. Cris made an amazing pasta and soybean mince for lunch followed by a ridiculously chocolatey chocolate cake! It is safe to say I have fallen in love with Portugal the people and the cities! I have always known how wonderful Spain is and that it is somewhere I want to settle one day but now I have been to Portugal I am just as impressed! We have a big night ahea...