Photo Achieves: Portugal Trip

Since my fancy blog didn't exist last summer, I thought I would post some photos from my trip to Portugal (periodically, I'll be posting some "photo achieves") . In just 7 days we packed in quite a few cities: Albufeira, Vagueira, Aveiro, and Porto. After a long flight and a long car ride to our first destination (Albufeira, a touristy city in the Algarve region), we were exhausted but of course had to stop for some "almoso". The Portuguese like to have large, dinner-sized portion lunches (paired with red wine, of course), always ending with a coffee (they call it coffee anyway, its really espresso...after the trip I started drinking espresso and taking my coffee black).

Mom drinking a café 

View of the ocean from the resort

                                        
After our beach adventures, we headed north to a village called Vagueira where my family has a place and to its closest city, Aveiro. 

Our last destination - Porto, where Port wine is made - was our favorite. We walked around the city and had some amazing Portuguese food. I snapped this photo of the Dom Luis Bridge on a 15 second shutter. I didn't have a tripod with me so had to use a bench, so unfortunately I couldn't avoid the sidewalk in the shot.