Night 1

It's coming up to 7pm Thursday night and I've bailed on dinner. I'm knackered well and truly

Didn't help that I kept waking up every half hour during the Singapore to frankfurt leg of the trip - it's always the hardest part of the trip being about 12 hours long....

I didn't quite realise how far away from oporto airport we would be coming to today

Was a good couple hours drive into the mountains

Beautiful views though.... I'll have to take some pictures from out the front of where we're basing ourselves for the fortnight - "headquarters" as dad put it lol

My god the quality of driving (or lack of) is unbelievable.... I was not surprised when we passed two pretty bad looking accidents on the freeway after leaving the airport

It's as if the signs and lane markings are there purely for decorations only, as are the use of indicators!

So the lunch stop we made was at a place called cafe bigode "cafe moustache" directly translated.... sorta reminded me of something out of an asterix book :-)

Grub was great though - roast pork, rice, fried potatoes, shredded carrot, lettuce, tomato and onion all on a plate and endless bread rolls and wine - about 5 euros a head..... I ate all mine and most of mum's too since she wasn't hungry and I downed 3 bread rolls and a glass of wine.....

So onwards from there and once again dad started talking to me about me moving over here.... I'd like to spend more time over here alone to travel around a bit, but I don't think I'd want to live here. I still love my home in Ballan too much....

Well I've been up since 7am Wednesday aussie time and I think it's close to 4am Friday aussie time and I've probably had the equivalent of about 5 hours sleep so I'm gonna zonk now I reckon....

Hopefully dream about the sexy german men in customs I saw this morning including one at border passport control who looked at my passport then slowly looked up to my face (with a serious expiration on him) at which point I gave him a massive smile and he smiled back and was nice to me afterwards :-)