A church of bones. These are real skulls. Not to be confused with the church of bones in the Czech Republic that Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman visited in their movie The Long Way Round. Pictures of that church can be found in the Czech Photo link. Conchita was wondering why I look so serious in this photo. Maybe because I was surround by a bunch of skulls!!!??


Portugal is one of the biggest producers of cork. Conchita and I saw all these trees and were wondering what they were. We discovered that they were cork trees and that cork is actually the bark. For some reason I had always thought that cork was man-made.



One of the many walled cities in Portugal. Marcio, Me, Lillia.



Conchita's house?



The old and new.


Portugal has fantastic architecture. These statues are replacements of the originals that were in very bad shape.



Typical skinny road in Europe. I had to pull in the mirrors on this one.


I am not sure how that rock is not falling over.


How did this huge boulder get here? It is on the top of a mountain with nothing else around. Weird.


Northern Portugal is beautiful. C and I could retire here!!!



Kids swimming in the Douro River in Oporto- famous for its wine.


Wine tasting. I LIKE it!!! Me, Conchita, Carla and Joaquim. Looks like Conchita may have tasted one too many!!


Claustrophobic (especially for a man of my stature) staircase in a church tower.