beginning of the end

it had to happen.
rohan has just booked our boat back to england : (
to be fair, we are both getting a lil travel weary...me especially as i have been sick as a dog the last few days (with the flu -i'm producing impressive amounts of phlegm) but the sun and sea has helped.
we have travelled from southern portugal to the northern town of Porto.
The weather seems to be reflecting our mood and has gone from sunshiny, happy weather in the south to be misty, cooler and moody up here. it makes Porto seem all mysterious and melancholy. i like it.
we have been having a hard time thinking of Portugal in a historical sense as alot of it seems to be just like Oz, but here in Porto, walking down the narrow streets bordered by ramshackle, rundown houses on a drizzly day like today you feel like you are stepping back into the middle ages.

we have booked a ferry from Bilboa, Spain so we dont have to drive like crazy people on motorways to calais to make our semi-self imposed deadline of Nov 1....its a bit more expensive but when you take into account petrol/tolls/two extra days on the road it isnt too bad.

a/r