Porto Reporto

 Well we made it. Don’t have a lot of news, so just going to give my impression of things so far. It’s fairly easy to fly to Europe now.  Flights were very full and everyone wearing n95 masks. 

If you are going to Germany be careful, the PCR  test must be  48 hours not 72 hours before. We were in transit in Frankfurt  so no problem,  but if you are just flying to Germany be careful. 

 On arrival in Portugal we had a random vaccine card check and you also need to fill in a passenger locator form on line. They asked for it in both SFO and Porto.

Our seat mate was a lovely Iranian  woman who hadn’t been back  home for  5 years . She was very excited and still had another long flight after we all departed in Frankfurt. We were all one row behind business class. So yes we did the walk of shame past those lay down seats in business and watched them get their damn champagne. They ran out of  good  food choices for us,  so it was a good thing we all liked vegetarian lasagna! The business class residents were smacking their lips 👄 on what looked like something straight out of Wolfgang Pucks beginner guide to airplane cuisine. 

We are at this very funky hotel in Porto, and the lobby and floors are filled with collectibles. I love it. How hard must it have been to find those scary dolls, bumper cars and old phones among other things.  We had a stroll around  the town tonight, and tried some awesome tapas and red wine at a small street restaurant. Jet-lag is catching up to us, since no one got much sleep on the plane. 

Long day, so we will do some exploring tomorrow down  by the river and decide how far to walk on Sunday. As I mentioned to some, we might take subway out of town to cut down on miles on first day.

Saw this awesome group singing for Ukraine 🇺🇦 . Video is uploaded at beginning. So nice. 

It’s lovely to be here, we feel very fortunate. Good night!