It is described as being Portugal’s ‘Little Venice’ as it has 3 canals running through it. They were originally built to help transport the salt gleaned from the lagoon to salt houses further inland. Now it is a university city which is quite modern, but has also held onto its charm.
We had wanted to visit it while Tony and Claire were with us, and if the flights hadn’t been disrupted, giving them the full week with us we would have gone. As it was 3 days wasn’t enough to do everything!
So Peter and I went to Aveiro the day after Tony and Claire left.
3kms from our site was a small car ferry, very like the one at Sandbanks, Dorset to take us across the lagoon. We had been told that with the same ticket you could get the ferry as a foot passenger and there would be a bus to meet us on the opposite side to transport us into Aveiro.
We were expecting a short 10 minute ride, but in actual fact Aveiro wasn’t just the other side of the lagoon, it was further inland and the bus journey took a good ½ hour. (We’re so pleased we didn’t take the bikes to cycle in!)
Aveiro didn’t disappoint us and rather than try to describe our day I’ll leave you to look at the photos……
What a fantastic place! Some of the buildings resemble those in Florence where I have just been with Paul and Jacq for 4 days. We thought the volcano had kyboshed our break but the flights opened up again 2 days before so we felt very blessed to be able to go.
ReplyDeleteOff to Crete with Ruth and Mike in a couple of weeks - can't wait to really relax and do very little for two weeks. Still struggling to get mobility in my wrist and hand but have very good people looking after me now.
How on earth are you going to settle back into life in High Wycombe after the wonderful adventure you've had?! Much love Carol xxx