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And here you can see the same houses as earlier but looking out across one side of town. Incredibly higgledy-piggledy. I like it.

You get a real sense of how houses are cramped together. It's quite strange that such poor housing is so close to enormous public monuments. And the very tall, very thin houses are a common style. I would like to live at the top of em. Especially when Porto is on such an incline […]

No, nothing to do with the United States. Rather 1800s sometime when Portugal managed to beat Napoleon's forces in the Peninsular War. I like it. The base has scenes of tough fighting. It's a great piece of public sculpture and can be found at the Boavista roundabout - called simply “the roundabout” by locals. […]

A few more of the barges with Eiffel's bridge - one of six crossing Porto in the background.

We're on the south bank here - where the port places are - looking over the river to the cafe area of main Porto. The boat is the traditional boat used to transport barrels of port from the vineyards miles inland to Porto where they were stored and aged. These days trucks and roads […]

I was sitting in the bar at the Sheraton in Porto on Saturday when there was some commotion. A photographer and journalist doing an interview with some bloke who was talking about his music in - I have been told - a somewhat pretentious manner. Later on, a TV crew appeared and interviewed him […]

Thanks to Max for pointing out this hilarious letter that appeared in this week's Brighton Argus. A furious fisherman clearly hasn't been told that Brighton is no longer “London-by-the-sea”, rather “Old-Compton-Street-by-the-sea”.
His outraged tone is very endearing. And I particularly like the fact that like some film farce he has accidentally got himself […]