While taking photos of the picturesque town, I noticed that I had dark dots on them! They were particularly noticeable in the clear blue sky. Damn. Wiping the lens didn't help, so I figured that I either scratched my lens or something went wrong with the sensor. Damn. I don't want dots on all my photos!!! Helplessly wandering, I ran into a tiny camera store. The old man didn't speak much English. We tried Spanish. And gestures. Somehow, we kind of understood each other, and he decided to keep my camera overnight to clean the whole apparatus. I had no choice but to trust the man...
Next morning, I went back to the store, and my camera was PERFECT. Yeeeeey : ) He even sold me a filter to protect my lens, I think, at a pretty good price (according to Amazon).
Disaster struck later that day when I tried to upload some photos onto the computer. I must've pushed the SD card a bit too hard, I heard a snap...Nothing seemed to have broken on the outside, but the card became unreadable. Which means I lost all 600 or so photos that were on that card : ( I took it to several computer shops to see if they could get it to read, but no luck. Arghhhhhhhhhh. I ended up having to buy a new memory card that's slower and has less capacity than my old one. Damn.
Anyways, about Porto.
I couldn't change my flight to Finland, so I had no choice but to return to Portugal from Italy. I didn't want to spend the entire time in Lisbon. Porto for a couple of nights seemed like a good idea.
It's a pretty little town (yes, old, orange, and hilly like Lisbon), separated into 2 districts by a Portuguese river. The view from the high bridges connecting them is amazing - one side is the main city itself, while the other is dominated by port companies.
As the name suggests, the city is famous for their sweet, port wines. I took 2 port wine tours (free! including red & white tasting), and enjoyed wandering though the alleys between the warehouses. I decided to splurge a bit, and had a nice, relaxing lunch at one of the wineries : ) On the city side, I'd highly recommend going into the cathedral; it has some really beautiful tiles. This guy kept using the self timer on his camera to pose in front of the tiles, which I found quite amusing to watch. Now that I think about it, I should've offered to take a picture for him....oh well.
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