{"id":47760,"date":"2017-09-23T20:08:23","date_gmt":"2017-09-24T00:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=47760"},"modified":"2017-09-23T20:08:23","modified_gmt":"2017-09-24T00:08:23","slug":"saturday-night-moncao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2017\/09\/23\/saturday-night-moncao\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday night – Mon\u00e7\u00e3o"},"content":{"rendered":"

Long beautiful day in Portugal. Slept till 8:30.. near record for me. We headed to the car around 10 ..  got to see a little of Porto on the way. Headed to Braga to see the Bom Jesus Cathedral and grounds. Well worth the drive . <\/p>\n

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these stairs were amazing.. small chapels and fountains at each level.. we walked down them first. <\/p>\n

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each chapel had statues depicting part of christs last days.. here’s the kiss of judas\"\"\"\"<\/p>\n

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here’s the last supper <\/p>\n

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then we turned aroudn and walked back up. THe statuary and fountains were even better to see as you moved upwards<\/p>\n

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there4 were fopuntains depicting the five senses.. here is hearing \"\"<\/p>\n

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and (creepily) seeing <\/p>\n

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tasting <\/p>\n

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and soemhow this is touching \"\"<\/p>\n

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the three virtues <\/p>\n

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we snuck in a samstone <\/p>\n

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the view from the chathederal was stunning <\/p>\n

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there were two weddings there whiule we were hiking !\"\"<\/p>\n

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we snuck inside to catch part of the second wedding.. what a beautiful building \"\"\"\"=x<\/p>\n

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then a quick stop for lunch <\/p>\n

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cheese and olive paste.. yum !<\/p>\n

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then back on our way north. We stopped in villa verde to see a small church with a beutiful grave yard<\/p>\n

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what a view from that place !\"\"\"\"\"\"<\/p>\n

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next stop was Mon\u00e7\u00e3o .. a small town on the border with spain .. this is a large private vinyard that makes the regions prized Vino Verde. <\/p>\n

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i coulnd’t resist \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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the town itself was very beutiful .. and not very touristy at all.. \"\"\"\"\"\"<\/p>\n

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we stopped at the tourist office.. . Luckily the woman there spoke spanish.. so i was able to get good advice on things to see,  where to eat and where to drink. Her freind up stairs spoke english and gave us a very nice wine tasting of the Vion Verde.. it was really delicious. <\/p>\n

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on the advice of maggie.. we drove in to spain to eat.. <\/p>\n

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she had given us the name of a small place.. the people and the food were really wonderful.. and it was nice to beback<\/p>\n

 someplace  I could communicate. \"\"\"\"<\/p>\n

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here’s ourt wonderful wait=person cutting down grapes for us to eat with dinner. \"\"\"\"<\/p>\n

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dinnr was fabulour.. scalllops \"\"<\/p>\n

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octopis <\/p>\n

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and an amazing fish platter..  i wont be hungry for a week !<\/p>\n

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\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\\\\coffee liquor for dessert <\/p>\n

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there was a very nice barkign dog nearby.the cook gave me soem meat to give him.. His name was Ambegue.. or soemthing like that.. what a sweet guy ! <\/p>\n

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then back to portugal for the drive back to porto \"\"<\/p>\n

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we got home around 10.. o it wsa too early to go to sleep.. so we walked down town in search of music. We did;’t fdind any we liked.. but we had a nice drink on the river. Heres’ lookign over at all the Port makers. \"\"<\/p>\n

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on the way back we foudn a marker for the San Juan Capistella trail.. so we left a samstone <\/p>\n

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we passed a building that used to be a synagouge.. I learned that all the jews were forced out of here in the 2nd world war.. <\/p>\n

gives me such a strange feeling . <\/p>\n

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by then it was midginght.. time to walk home. soem cool buildings along the way !\"\"\"\"\"\"<\/p>\n

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OK..almost 2am.. time to sleep..<\/p>\n

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more tomorrow<\/p>\n

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nite all, nite sam<\/p>\n

-me<\/p>\n

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Long beautiful day in Portugal. Slept till 8:30.. near record for me. We headed to the car around 10 ..  got to see a little of Porto on the way. Headed to Braga to see the Bom Jesus Cathedral and grounds. Well worth the drive .    these stairs were amazing.. small chapels and fountains … Continue reading Saturday night – Mon\u00e7\u00e3o<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47954,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47760\/revisions\/47954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}