What up, y'all??
Burke, glad to see you're not banned again yet.
Still trekking my way across Portugal... downing a couple bottles of wine a day in any town I'm in. Coimbra was pretty cool and even partied a little with some of the student population there.
Now I'm in Porto, which isn't anything like I expected. You can't tell if this is a town on the way up or the way down. Its UNESCO-designated downtown core is both charming and delapidated like Dresden circa 1947. And talk about a brooding town. You could film a Batman movie here, and the weather hasn't hurt. I expect some vampire to pop out of some dirty old castle and suck my neck dry like a Capri Sun pack at any moment. It's also a little like Portugal's Torino in a way, with all the locals too busy making money to get too crazy culturally...
But boy was the town crazy last night after the Hamburg match. I was going to get tickets, but it's been dumping rain so I opted to watch it with a bunch of local drunks instead. Gonna have to pull for Sporting tonight, Burkemeister, sorry to say. Sporting definitely seems to be the cool underdog team around these parts --scrappy, low budget, investing heavily in youth squads in producing the likes of Nani and Joao Moutinho, etc. But the people in Porto and the people in Lisbon seem to hate each other in football like Romanisti and Laziale.
Time to open up another bottle, folks. Don't burn the place down while I'm gone, OK?
Congrats on the Tigers, Andy.
And what is up with Da Bears even with 4 ints??
And Pado, I am so far disappointed with the obvious lack of unitard-wearing transsexuals in this country. How Portugal got admitted to the E.U. is anyone's guess.