Finally - Portugal

I suck with Google Maps. I just tried to make a nice map of Portugal, noting down places where did we go and how did we go, but I didn't manage.

So I opt for the easier (and more ugly) option, called Paint.

I hope you can understand something here. I circled all the cities we have been in green and also tried to make it clear what was our itinerary. You should click on the map to see it better.

Just to make it clear once again, I will also list it down here:
- Porto
- Coimbra
- Covilhã (long way via Vise) and Torre
- Lourinhã (long way via Lisbon), Peniche and Baleal
- Lisbon
- Faro, Almodovar and some countryside villages

All trip in total took 9-10 days (I think, it was nine nights) and we were travelling a lot, as you can imagine from the amount of places visited. Everything was just great and I am now longing to return back and see more of Portugal!

Upcoming trip to Portugal

Although I have a few topics in mind, I do not feel like writing at the moment, so I will simply say ask if anybody of you has ever been to Portugal, has some friends there or can suggest something to do there?

In less than two weeks we are going to Portugal for 10 days and it's one of the few European countries I have never been to - so looking forward to the trip very much. We are arriving in Porto and leaving from Faro, so planning to visit different cities and couchsurf everywhere. I wrote to all my contacts in Portugal, but not all of them are responding (and I didn't have so many anyway).

Any tips and contacts will be appreciated!

Word plays of "bok"

How often do you notice the word plays between English and other languages? Or simply other languages? I think about them quite often and it always makes me laugh.

The last example happened on Wednesday evening when quite an international group gathered for some drinks in a local bar. We had Turkish and Swedish visitors from Lund who ordered a local beer. After the first glass they wanted to know what's the name of the beer as it was so good. The bartender (always a bit tipsy) said: "Bok".

At that point the Turkish guy who is actually living in Sweden started to laugh a lot and we couldn't understand why.

Then we got an explanation. In Turkish "bok" means "shit", while in Swedish "bok" means "a book". So not only he was drinking a beer "shit", but also he remembered seeing in Sweden "bokfestival" - which you can translate yourselves :)

And that's not all. At that point somebody said that in Portugal is a beer, called "Super Bock". The laughing didn't stop for even a longer time.