All the planning is done and all the reservations have been made and confirmed, so it’s Go Time!

Now we are watching the weather reports to try and figure out what to bring along. It looks like we’ll see temperatures in the 70’s and 80’s during the day and around 60 in the evening. That would be Fahrenheit, in case you were wondering. It could be rainy or windy or sunshiny.

The real question is how much rain will we see. Everybody says wear comfortable shoes for walking, but the new wrinkle is that they also need to provide good traction on slick surfaces. Imagine that, steep streets that are paved with cobblestones that are slippery when wet.

My solution is to take transportation on rainy days. I have this picture in my mind of slipping and rolling down a hilly street until I plunk into the Douro or Tagus River. Apparently my childhood imagination was tainted by watching cartoons. Who knew?

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We did decide to book a shuttle up to Toronto’s Pearson Airport. We figured it would just make things easier both going and returning. The shuttle will pick us up and then drop us off at home, which was the real scale-tipper. Parking for a month sure seemed like wasted money, so what the heck. I’ll let you know how that goes in case anyone else is interested in the future.

Anyway, travel time is near and we can’t wait. After all the years of traveling, there is always excitement when flying off to a new destination. It’s not an Indiana Jones type adventure, but an adventure nonetheless.

Our next update will be from our apartment in Porto. Hope you’ll come along.

Falo consigo em breve!