The six hours went by quite fast, well apart from the train being 45mins late. So that posed the question at the end, does the train make up time with quicker stops at the intermittent stations or does it continue to be 45mins late right up until the end, so there I am packed and ready to go for the last hour just in case it had made up time, but alas no in this instance it stayed late right up until the final stop. Off I hopped and trekked across town and found ...

Well happily it was back to sunshine in Leon, and a nice little big city it was too. Nice big open streets and pretty narrow alleyways. I really didn't have much planned for here, as I was just really wanting a break from my 12 hour train trip so I decided to do it in two 6 hour session and Leon fitted nicely in the middle. I had a heck of a time trying to find cheap accommodation in Leon online, and my trusty 'hostel world' website failed me, so I had to turn t...

Well after fretting that I had a 6 hour bus trip ahead of me I found out that it departed an hour later than I thought and since I was going into Spain there was an hour's difference so it actually turned out to be a fairly quick 4 our trip. I arrived in Santiago and it was raining, actually raining, I hadn't seen this wet stuff in such a long time it was a shock! I grabbed a map at the bus station and set off to find the hostel, however I couldn't tell which ro...

Well I arrived in Porto slightly more prepared and I even got a map off Victor the day before so I knew where I was going, and with my legs still in a sorry state from my frantic race to the bus station I just took it easy finding my next place. Up and down a few hills later and the long way around the park as I read the map wrong I got there and had to wait a while for my room to be ready again but as soon as it was I jumped in and had another sleep, man this tr...

Once I emerged from the back of beyond, the first stop was Coimbra. The university is in the heart of the city and everything else is built around it. I was a little frustrated to find yet another city built on a hill and as I was still recovering from my wee run in with the scorpion I wasn't really in the mood for hiking, well that and I couldn't figure out how the hell to get to my hostel. So I treated myself to a taxi , right up to the top of the freaking hill...