Ola Blue Bird,Muito obrigado, and now at the Irish pub for those staying in town there is only one train ride. Believe me I will be out and about investigating all of those lovely waterfront places on the few days before...I see there are bikes to hire there somewhere... so by Saturday..I may even b...

Ola St Theresa, ...I think you and I get on the plane in about 20 days...and in the meantime I have about 40 days work to fit in to that ! :) ..So yes it will be great to leave all that behind for a while!..Its so cold here now, I had thought that I would miss all that but we've had snow and sleet t...

:) Oh Welcome MFL!..I have thoroughly enjoyed reading the fun on your Irish threads too, I think we will get on well :?: :) ..My tickets to New Zealand from ticketline took only 10 days to arrive way over here, but that was paying the quickest courier price...and Vivamus, well she lives on the Algar...

Blue_Bird, I have an apology to make, when I asked you how far it was from Belem to Alges I thought that you said 5Km! :oops: ..but in fact I now see it was 5m......(is that 5 minutes?.. by train) Was perhaps not so far as I assumed at the time....Perhaps I need to buy spectacles as well as a plane ...

HA ha ha ha ...and then after that if you want to have a wee holiday in New Zealand down here in the deep south...we will happily oblige.... Mikeaus you can come too and bring the cook!....

Thanks Vivamus, you will be there now as I start my new week at work Monday morning..The photos will be interesting.no worries about getting together, we can work out a texting system perhaps closer to the time, we text as we leave or something..If we strategise it all we'll find each other....And I...

aah St Theresa, we will get on well!..we sound like twin sisters!.....which reminds me Im still not sure where my passport is!!

:) Lets forget the football eh!...(That's five (Rugbyworld cup) words on most New Zealanders lips the last year!) :roll: ...Anyway Ive had private messages from both St Theresa and Vivamus that Henneseys Irish Pub in the city is a good option. Vivamus you are very good with your links, and your loca...

Sorry Vivamus our email conversation got interrupted..by a night's sleep!...Actually for me that would be a great idea, then we dont lose contact with someone (Luis) who has been very hospitable, and it also seems that if anyone else comes along between now and the day we could all be quite easily a...

hmm I heard about Neil Young and Bob Dylan..shame I was not absolutely greedy and arrive the week before.. 8) But never mind LC is the man for me on that day!. :) Its great to get a local perspective on all this Blue_Bird, as google maps were only telling half the story..As I will be in town for a f...

....Now after that lovely :) weather report from Lisbon...shall I tell you that this evening in Port Chalmers New Zealand I was at a meeting,As it started at 5.30pm it was almost dark! when I came outside at 7.30pm it was very dark.On my car there was frost and ice beginning to form on the windscree...

Yes I see that the average temperature for Lisbon in July is about 25 degrees!?....so I was wondering how he would manage in that suit and hat...although there will probably (possibly)? be an evening breeze from the river...From one who lives by the water..though its most probably going to be a love...

Frisco Girl Quoted the article as saying "There Aint No Room for Love"..... Ha Ha , you're right..thats a "freudian slip" if ever there was one, and see they say that the audience was "on the wrong side of fifty"... ;-) ;-) Well should someone in Ireland on the "w...

And yes we all know which "gentlemen's football" you and I are really aligned to eh Luis?..(Though there was certainly a lot of blood around last night as we played England over here)...Its the Irish though that are giving the the Southern Hemisphere a good run for their money right now :l...

Oh well thats not so far away from Sydney...(just up the coast )..But lets not get too excited eh...this tour is pretty demanding already isnt it.......although of course coming "down under" would just have to be a relaxing experience for Leonard, (and anyone) eh!. :) ;-) ..Pretty much how...