Thursday, April 25, 2013

Porto - Day 2

We decided to get the train to Aveira - about a 1.5 hour trip down the coast from Porto to have a look around.  Aveira is built along canals and is known as the Venice of  Portugal, however it is greatly exaggerated!  I did find it very arty though, lots of sculptures and works of art around...


The buildings were also quite colourful...


And many of the buildings were tumbledown or abandoned...



The canals did look quite nice, and the good thing was you could hire a gondolier here for $5 euros. 200 euros in Greece, so Portugal has it made!


More of the art work around the town...


We found a supermarket!  99c for a bottle of wine.  Or 1.49c!  Now that's cheap!

More Canal beauty...



Old doors of abandoned buildings. 



The old railway station is now not being used...


We didn't stay too long in Aveira, and caught the train back, stopping again in Espinhol, a beach resort. The brochures for here calls the beach white sand!  I think it's more like Takapuna Beach in Auckland with it's goden sand...



We headed back again on the train and got off at Gaia, for more port tastings.  This is taken at Taylors which had a superb view over the city...


Anne trying out the port in style...


This is at Offleys - triying out the Ports there.  I tried the 30 year old one which was superb.  It also had a superb price so we left it in the cellar.

We walked back to Porto and found a restaurant to have dinner.  On the way home we  tried our hand with night photography without a tripod!


A good day.  Porto is beautiful



2 comments:

Kiwi Gran said...

Great photos..although i wonder how they look withnatural colour, i.e. these are hdr or saturated or something. Certainly eye catching though. What software are you using?
Cheers.
Kiwigran

Robyn said...

Using photomatix hdr - but I do it in camera first. I am not able to totally control things though as thelaptop I'm using has a crap screen - so not sure if things are too saturated or not - as I tend ot be on the lower end of bodeness when it comes to HDR. Until I get home, I can't look