Portugal Bus Trip
In this post I am going to share with you some pictures taken in April 2018 while travelling across northern Portugal from Guarda to Porto. They do not include Guarda or Porto but Porto will show up in another post. At each end of this morning trip I took pictures when we stopped for coffee. In the middle, I took pictures through the window of the moving bus.
At 530 meters above sea level, plants are just waking up from a long winters nap. Some of them are late sleepers.
Our trip takes us across the northern tip of the Serra da Malata National Reserve.
This is a beautiful example of managing the land. Produce is moved by truck and rail. Power is generated by wind farms and transmitted through wires suspended on towers.
By 11:15 the driver had brought us out of the mountains and closer to the coast. He just had to follow the water downhill to the ocean.
Speaking of all this water, isn’t it time for a roadside stop? We are close to Estarreja, Salreu, and Aveiro.
We stopped at an official highway road stop. A busy one serving both sides of the highway with the pedestrian overpass. At this lower elevation, the plants are much more advanced in their spring growth.
We still have a little way to go in our rush to the sea.
Follow the water on its rush to the sea.
We must be close, I see the suburbs. Check the map, it gives time of day, speed, altitude, and direction of travel. See the blue arrow on the left pointing up to Porto. The map show the scale in Kilometers but actual road distance with ups and downs and scenic rides around the sides of mountains is 220 miles (354 km) from Salamanca city center to Porto city center. Guarda is just in Portugal at the cross made by the grey vertical country boarder line and the orange road line from Salamanca to Porto.
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