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What part of May is high season?
Here is a link to the official tourist website for Galicia. A lot but not all accommodation establishments are in what is called Green days. The calendar shows all of May to be low season. Any hotel which says it is high season is committing suicide.
http://www.turgalicia.es/recomendaci...s&crec=&cidi=I

RE Bookings: If you do not wish to spend hours looking for a hotel then pre-booking is the thing to do. Also finding the tourist office some times can be a pain, either it is the centre or it could be closed for the lunchtime. The final thing about booking is like you found out with France sometimes there is a local fiesta on which means everywhere is occupied.

Sorry should have said only the first 2 days in May is high season not all. But that is the same though out Europe.

hi there
enjoyed your report immensely.
I cannot remember where the water came from in each of the fountains. I know it was supposed to be from the organ it represented and then the three virtues. I remember eyes, nose and ears, a cross and two cherubs emptying something. Although I took a photo of each sadly my camera with chip was stolen not long after. Can you or anyone assist please.

check my pictures. If any fit the bill, you can try to download them. If you can't let me know. Click on my name and you will get my e-mail address and if you give me yours, I'll forward the picture.

thanks - I cannot see any of the actual fountains. I have tried all sorts of searching with google but think I will try emailing someone with something to do with Bom Jesus. Regards Micheled

Michael, the link didn't work for me.

cigalechanta,

I have no problem seeing the albums using the links given above. Theoretically downloading is not granted, but it appears that individuals have been able to download pictures from my albums with no problem.

Thanks for bringing this back up == it's a great report and has beautiful pictures. Cigalechanta, I couldn't open the links embedded in the original trip report (that start tinyurl....), but had no trouble viewing the links Michael posted on March 27. Those all worked fine -- loved the pictures! Laurie

Great report. I've certainly picked up some tips reading from beginning to end!! Thank you. Fran

I am moving my pictures to Flickr. Here's a beginning:

Porto to Valença do Minho:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mksfca/...7623555290159/

Galicia:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mksfca/...7622850323969/

and here are the pictures of Bragança to Coimbra:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mksfca/...7623705654880/

Michael: I'm interested in your photos of Lisbon and Sintra and the earlier links don't work for me. The Flickr link above does. Would you mind posting the Flickr link for the Lisbon and Sintra photos?
Your trip report was excellent.
gail

The photos are in Photoworks and I have not yet digitized them to load them to Flickr; there is no easy transfer from Photoworks to Flickr. I doubt that I will have the time to do them before July or August, as I am deep in planning my current trip which starts in 3 weeks.

gail,

You can try this site, but the presentation is not as good:

http://www.photoworks.com/slideshow/...7?source=pw980

bookmarking

As I digitize the photos, I am putting them in this collection:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mksfca/...7623555520457/

Michael, what a great report. I enjoyed reading it and will have to make time over the weekend to look at the pictures.

I'm also interested in some of your other trip reports. I'm looking forward to reading Turkey.

Bookmarking this excellent report - We will be in N Portugal in early and mid March and will certainly benefit from your insights.

The links to the pictures do not work any more. But they can be found in these collections: https://www.flickr.com/photos/mksfca...7633030475108/

Michael, I enjoyed looking at your photos! We will be spending 5 nights in Lisbon in April, and will also do a day trip to Sintra.