Weekend report

We arrived to Geres Friday evening, first night we were six people. The house that we stayed in was amazing, only upstairs there were four bedrooms and a huge living room and kitchen, we didn't even use the space downstairs. There was a pool as well and the most amazing tenis court that I've ever seen, on the mountain side with an amazing view. Well it was too cold to use the pool, but the tennis court was a perfect spot to watch the stars and it was really amazing with the Milky Way and shooting stars.

On Saturday two more people joined the fun, we drove up the mountain and went for a small hike, saw a waterfall and followed the river up the mountain. In the river you have small pods where to swim in the summer, now the water was freezing cold. During the whole weekend we are a lot, drank really good wine (chosen by the wine specialist), played cards and chess and sat in front of the fireplace. Total relaxation.

                                                              (photo by Joana M.)

On Sunday we got two more friends joining us, and after a delicious lunch in a local restaurant we went here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peneda-Ger%C3%AAs_National_Park. Very beautiful place with mountains and water, just next to the border with Spain. Unfortunatelly we didn't have too much time to stay there, I need to go back and get a bike to drive around the park. We were then driving up and down another mountain, really cool roads coming down the hill, the view was amazing the whole way. In the evening we naturally ate more and had some nice conversations, I was telling stories from Finland and made some people jealous when telling that I saw Aurora Borealis, taught them some Finnish and I finally learned how to swear in Portuguese! And practiced how to pronounce "põem". Difficult. I also saw a LOT of bugs. And spiders. Creepy things and they love me.

It was a great weekend and LUCKY ME having met all these nice people!