porto, libson, faro...

well well well,
i am currently in faro, portugal and oh so happy to be here. our first week of traveling has been wonderful but sometimes exhausting.
we took the train from perpignan, france down to girona, spain and flew out of there to porto, portgual. we spent a few days in porto staying with a sweedish women we found through couch surfing, jonna. jonna was a great host and had two whole bedrooms for us! we loved porto... the river running through town was possibly the most beautiful scene i have ever laid eyes on. we saw hilarious dogs, got kicked off the metro several times by the policia ( i cried and he said, in perfect english "why does your face look like that?"), looked at beautiful people.
from then we took a train to lisbon. our group is not a big fan of lisbon. this is due mainly to circumstance and not so much the city itself which is beautiful. we stayed at this hilarious hippy commune type situation, camped in a tent in the back. we met people from norway, portugal, sweeden, france and the u.s. i opted not to shower because the place was so filty, and opted to stay in the tent even when a bed was made available, in fear that the inside of the house probably had flees. i stand by this. the place really lost its charm for me when i got food poisoning and had to stay on the emergency bed in the hallway so i could be only a few feet from the bathroom at all times. i was pretty sick and sleep deprived when we had to travel to faro yesterday....
let me tell you, train and food poisoning... worst ever.
so we got here and i slept the day away, managed to eat a thing of jello the girls bought me, which was the best. i actually hate jello. today we went to the beach. i love faro. its beautiful here and the beach is amazing. iºm collecting shells and such... have yet to decide what to do with them. this morning i still felt like my stomach and back had been tenderized by 1000 fists. now its only a few punches worth of pain. iºm a waif, mom! hahahahahah.........

so it goes.
love you all.
happy easter!!!