Portugal...where road beers also come in "designated drivers" bottle size.At the tip of Europe, just as you thought you could get away in life with your beginners spanish level, there you'll find another country where you're once again as helpless as a blogger who can't finish this sentence with a funny fact. (I'm no Seinfeld you know!)
The best way to travel is by mixing up with the locals and you'll be glad you went there with someone who has family living in the country, but that could be true for a lot of places in the world.
Sure, you might find yourself digging-up potatoes in a field at 7 in the morning for it, a small price to pay after the wild night at the surrounding village fiestas you've just been through. In the summer, in Portugal, it's all about road tripping with someone's cousin and his friends and aiming at every party around the region, night after night. Always keep in mind where you are, because you wouldn't want to be trashing your own village's fiesta...or you'lll be picking up more than potatoes the next morning. Stick with your friends cousins on this "cheap beer and related girls" hunt. Yeah, keep it real! What better way to impress the ladies than 6 grown men tossed in a small german compact car. Fortunately, you somehow enjoy the ride and that has nothing to do with the fact that you've maintained a high concentration of alcohol in your blood for the past 4 hours...and so has everyone in the car.
Don't worry, it'll take much more than that to defeat your driver. Ours was exceptionnaly good at driving impaired, as much as he was a local legend. Apparently, a women had once turned him down because, well, lets just say he had too much to offer. So is what we understood as his friend was reproducing an helicopter spin move with his forearm(go ahead, try it...), as subtle as one can be while chugging his 5th Sagres. So my friends, myself and elephant man had the best time discovering the small town nightlife of July in Portugal.
The beaches, the football, the porto, what's not to love really?! Lisboa, the capital, is just amazingly sunny and fun to walk through, although the transportation system is very effective as well. If you want to keep your nights busy, go to Coimbra, a huge campus/city. University students being pretty much the same everywhere in the world, you shouldn't feel alone there.
Ta se bem carralio!
The best way to travel is by mixing up with the locals and you'll be glad you went there with someone who has family living in the country, but that could be true for a lot of places in the world.
Sure, you might find yourself digging-up potatoes in a field at 7 in the morning for it, a small price to pay after the wild night at the surrounding village fiestas you've just been through. In the summer, in Portugal, it's all about road tripping with someone's cousin and his friends and aiming at every party around the region, night after night. Always keep in mind where you are, because you wouldn't want to be trashing your own village's fiesta...or you'lll be picking up more than potatoes the next morning. Stick with your friends cousins on this "cheap beer and related girls" hunt. Yeah, keep it real! What better way to impress the ladies than 6 grown men tossed in a small german compact car. Fortunately, you somehow enjoy the ride and that has nothing to do with the fact that you've maintained a high concentration of alcohol in your blood for the past 4 hours...and so has everyone in the car.
Don't worry, it'll take much more than that to defeat your driver. Ours was exceptionnaly good at driving impaired, as much as he was a local legend. Apparently, a women had once turned him down because, well, lets just say he had too much to offer. So is what we understood as his friend was reproducing an helicopter spin move with his forearm(go ahead, try it...), as subtle as one can be while chugging his 5th Sagres. So my friends, myself and elephant man had the best time discovering the small town nightlife of July in Portugal.
The beaches, the football, the porto, what's not to love really?! Lisboa, the capital, is just amazingly sunny and fun to walk through, although the transportation system is very effective as well. If you want to keep your nights busy, go to Coimbra, a huge campus/city. University students being pretty much the same everywhere in the world, you shouldn't feel alone there.
Ta se bem carralio!
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