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Easter holidays 2016 - From Porto to Lisbon and back

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Since I am not travelling so much abroad recently, at least I wanted to share some impressions from our short road trip in Portugal over Easter. It's been a long while that I've flown with Ryanair, but it was the most feasible price and times for this trip; even though we needed to go to Frankfurt Hahn first - like 120km away from Frankfurt. But the rest was fine: No check of our so carefully packed baggage, not much of a line for the check-in and for a short flight not too uncomfortable. Anyways, if you don't check in on-line, it is 45€ per person, so for the return flight we needed to find a place to print the tickets in Portugal. After arriving in Porto, we picked up our rental car, drove to our AirBnb and dropped our stuff to go for a walk in the city. We found Porto very cute and lovely with all its unstructured streets and colourful houses. Especially the area Ribeira down at the Douro river is particulary stunning. On the way we walked through narrow passage