I bought this summer dress in Porto and since we’ve been back it’s been hanging on the wardrobe door, as a beautiful memory of our visit to Porto this summer … and with the gorgeous summer weather we’ve been having these last few days I had a chance to wear it again!
Algemeen
3
okt 11
My Porto summer dress…
14
sep 11
The Connection Kids
The Connection Kit, the card reader, the Hub and the iPad. And Mrs Fredlee of course, posting a blog.
When I bought the iPad last year, I also bought the Camera Connection Kit, because I thought it would be handy to put photo’s from my camera onto the iPad. And during our travels the interesting posts on our weblog also needed photo’s. So I tested the Connection Kit out before we went away. Alas, the iPad gave sometimes the message that the device – the card reader with my photo-card in it – that I’d attached, could not be supported, or another time the message was that the device needed too much power and therefore couldn’t be used. Shiiiiit…
Na wat gezoek met google, las ik ergens dat Apple de specificaties voor de iPad-poort had veranderd en dat daarom die kit – nota bene een accessoire van Apple – niet meer werkte. Grrrrr. Ik besloot dan maar mijn veel zwaardere MacBook mee te nemen, totdat ik ineens een helder moment had. Als ik nou eens een usb-hubje wat van zichzelf stroom had, koppelde aan de iPad en dan daaraan die kaartlezer…
After some searching on Google, I read that Apple had changed the specifications for the iPad- port and that’s why the Kit – which is an Apple accessorie – didn’t work anymore. Grrrrr.
I decided to take instead my much heavier MacBook, untill all of a sudden I had a lucid moment. If I coupled a usb-hub, which has it’s own power, to the iPad and then onto the card reader….
Om een lang verhaal kort te maken: het werkte. Nou ja, soms wel en soms niet. Als ik maar volhield dan werkte het, maar dan had ik wel de iPad een paar keer herstart, de kabeltjes los- en weer vastgemaakt en dan nog een paar keer. De foto’s kwamen dus op de iPad. Nu moesten ze nog bewerkt worden…
To make a long story shorter: it worked. Well yes, sometimes it did and sometimes it didn’t. If I persevered then it worked, but then I’d restarted the iPad a few times, disconnected and reattached the cables again and again. The photo’s were on the iPad. Now they have to be worked on…
2
sep 11
To Porto
Vanmorgen namen we eerst afscheid van Lisa, Vitor en Cheyenne, die richting Bordeaux vertrokken. Maria smeerde boterhammen, Mrs Fredlee pakte ze in en ik keek toe.
Early this morning we first said goodbye to Lisa, Vitor and Cheyenne, driving back home via Bordeaux. Maria made them sandwiches, Mrs Fredlee packed them up and I watched.
En toen gingen we zelf verder. Naar Porto. Moeizaam rijden, want de snelweg die we namen was nog lang niet klaar, het mistte, maar het was daardoor ook leuk, mooi en tja, spannend of iets dergelijks. Onze Amerikaanse mevrouw van Sygic, onze routeplanner, deed het beter dan de mevrouw van Google die ons altijd maar onduidelijke flauwe bochten wil laten nemen. Mevrouw Sygic was duidelijk, waardoor we uiteindelijk heel snel in ons hotel belanden.
And then we continued our journey. To Porto. We drove painfully slow, because the motorway we took was no where near finished yet, it was misty, but despite all that also nice, beautiful and yeah exciting or something like that. Our american lady from Sygic, our route planner, did it better than the Google lady that kept telling us all the time to take unclear ‘slight bends’. Mrs Sygic was very clear, which meant that in the end we arrived very quickly at our hotel!
We wilden de stad in en omdat Mrs.Fredlee moeilijk loopt gingen we met de metro. Kaartjes kopen was onduidelijk, ingewikkeld, maar we werden heel aardig geholpen door een aardige Portugese man, die ons later ook de metro wees en in de metro werden we ook weer terzijde gestaan door een aardige mevrouw. We gingen met de metro over de Douro, een prachtig tafreel.
We wanted to go into the city but because Mrs. Fredlee is walking a bit difficult at the moment, because of het foot, we took the metro. Buying tickets was unclear, complicated, but we were quickly helped by a really nice Portuguese guy, that also showed us which metro to take and in the metro we were helped, once again, by a really nice lady. We went with the metro over the Douro, a fantastic sight.
We liepen terug over de ijzeren brug naar de andere kant van de Douro, iets wat Mrs.Fredlee ietwat te hoog vond. Maar wel mooi.
We walked back over the iron bridge to the otherside of the Duoro, something that Mrs.Fredlee found a little bit too high. But beautiful all the same.
Daarna aten we, bij de wel wat toeristisch ingestelde tentjes aan de oever van de Douro. Heel romantisch, ook wel lekker en nu zitten we in de hotelkamer en hebben we nog een lekker flesje Vinho Verde besteld. We missen Lisa en Vitor en Cheyenne en ook Maria en Antonio en Avô maar het is nu eenmaal partir c’est mourir un peu… weg gaan is een beetje sterven…
Afterwards we ate, at a bit too touristy type restaurant on the banks of the Douro. Very romantic, and also rather tasty and now we are sitting in our hotel room and have just ordered a delicious bottle of Vinho Verde from room service. We miss Lisa, and Vitor and Cheyenne and also Maria and Antonio and Avô but as the saying goes partir c’est mourir un peu….
to leave is to die a little…
23
aug 11
Zigzagging through Zaragoza…
Breakfast in Cafe Iruna with the same wonderful waiter from yesterday evening who’d only had 5 hours sleep to our 9! Then adios Pamplona and on the road to Zaragoza! Mr Fredlee had already booked a hotel in the heart of Zaragoza whilst Mrs Fredlee was still sleeping!
It was a restful few hours drive through the creamy ochre and sepia plains splashed with emerald green vegitation and sparkling olive green rios, in our blissfully cool, air conditioned car with the temperatures rising outside…
Then we hit the outskirts of Zaragoza, put the Sat Nav on which directed us off the motorway and straight into a bus station under the fly over, with only NO ENTRY signs everywhere and coaches coming towards us!!! Mr Fredlee did a quick U turn into a narrow almost invisable little side exit lane and back onto the motorway – heading towards Barcelona!
Enfin, after many more U turns S turns and zig zagging, Zaragoza and our hotel was only 9 minutes away, as we followed the Rio Ebro towards the old city and the Santiago bridge with the beautiful Basilica del Pilar shimmering in the river and then only 4 mins till we reached our destination on the other side of the bridge. BUT over the bridge the main road, that would take us straight into the Calla San Pablo where our hotel Paris is, was closed due to the new tram net work being built!
Go right, turn left, more U turns, S bends, zig-zagging, circles, round and round the city, Bascilica del Pilar now on our left, Basicilica del Pilar now on our right, the Sat Nav whirling and twirling like a compass gone crazy we finally crossed back over the Santiago bridge, parked the car in a car park by the Rio Ebro and walked to the hotel in 37c heat and rising!
But the cervezas and tapas, in the square opposite the Bascilica del Pilar with its rocky waterfall, fountains, doves, and singing and dancing christian groups, were “esta muy rico”!
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