Today the Americans (Me, Jon, Matt and Taylor) left on our grand adventure to Porto! On the bus ride to the airport we ran into the other BEM exchange students going to Porto (Jan the German, Reini the Austrian, and Dominique the Swiss German…generally just called the Germans, just to make things simple). We caught the ever complicated RyanAir out of Bordeaux into Porto.
Getting from the airport to the hotel was very simple. Just a long metro ride to the hotel where we found out speaking French is actually more useful than English in Portugal. It turns out most people learn Spanish, then French and the English; so not too many Portuguese know English.
Our hotel ended up being better than we expected. It was a room with 2 bunk beds and another bed, and another room with a bed. It also had a fairly complete kitchen!
The four of us went out to dinner at a really nice Italian place that would have been insanely expensive in France, but was extremely reasonable in Porto.
After eating dinner we bought a bottle of Port and wander around. Porto is gorgeous and seeing all the Port manufactures across the river was so beautiful. The view was very welcoming!
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