Painted tiles are very common in Portugal. We saw them all over Lisbon and Porto, where they line the outer walls of buildings both as decoration and as insulation. We saw a tiled station in Pinhao. They are not unheard of on train stations, but right in the center of Porto lies São Bento station. […]
As a part of an after-trip to the TBU conference in Portugal last spring we went to the town of Pinhão. This is the same town where we got a chance to take a rabello boat ride on the Douro river. Pinhão has a very attractive tiled train station. It isn’t very big, although is […]
Ali and I spent only one night in Lisbon on our way to Porto. Because we did not have much time in Lisbon, we didn’t get a chance to ride any of the trams that buzz around the city center. We tried taking one out to the tower of Belem, but we waited at the […]
Have you ever heard of Port wine? I had, but only barely. I knew nearly nothing about it until coming to the north of Portugal. After our travel bloggers conference in Porto, Ali and I joined an after-conference trip to the Douro region. This is the region where the grapes that make Port wine are […]
We only got to see Lisbon for a few hours. We arrived at our hotel around 6pm and had to leave the following day at noon to go to Porto. Even still this time in Lisbon was amazing. The fresh sea breeze and the people around were invigorating. We spent our time in the Rossio […]