porto
Hello Yall
I made it to Porto after flying the one flight ryan air offers to the city a week. needless to say the plane was full. and the seats do not recline, because that way you can actually get several more rows of seats onto the plane. invigourating! we also had a school group on the flight, who apparently do not know how to function as indipendent entities. much confustion infront of the check in line (in front of me, mind you) while bimbos figured out how much can possibly fit in a suitcase, and what the true definition of carry-on might be. almost committed international incident.

one good thing -- we boarded from both front and rear of plane, so much less crazy than I had thought.

in other news. am allergic to the antipersprint I brought. not a pretty sight. am walking around with outstreached arms like zombie. oddly, am not making friends.

also. I cant read maps. in portuguese. because the street names are four times as long as many of the streets they name, so the map decides to abreviate. not in logical abreviations, mindy you. and then some names\places donºt line up at all.

other things not lining up- euro keyboard on this computer and where <i expect things to be. arg. jet lag is catching up with me, oddly. since my plane from jfk was delayed 5 hours, then we sat two hours on the tarmack. We got into dublin at 1:00 pm, so it was like 8:00 am at home. feel like I missed a day in there somewhere. o.k. must go and do something touristy. --K