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	<title>A flat in Porto</title>
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	<description>This is where you can eat Frenchies, drink a harbour or hit folk's head with a hammer!...</description>
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		<title>An apartment in Porto</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A place to stay in Porto
A visit to Porto will be best setup if you stay at a studio or apartment.  You have the comfort of a hotel, the privacy of your own home, the freedom of arranging your time according to your interests and needs, the safety of your four walls.
Studio
It is a good [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=portoflat.wordpress.com&blog=2636097&post=144&subd=portoflat&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://portoflat.wordpress.com/2009/08/26/apartment-porto/</link>
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		<title>What the web says about Porto</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Never been to Porto, Portugal, the so called capital of the portuguese north?
It&#8217;s about time to come and visit, and if you&#8217;d like to gather a first impression about Porto, there are already some very cool places on the Internet to visit:

Better than words, you&#8217;ll find here excellent pictures of the streets of Porto.
Another picture [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=portoflat.wordpress.com&blog=2636097&post=65&subd=portoflat&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://portoflat.wordpress.com/2008/05/30/porto-in-www/</link>
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		<title>The Book Fair &#8211; Feira do Livro</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You are a bit bored, the weather isn&#8217;t quite what you&#8217;d expect from a town in the south,&#8230; well that&#8217;s normal, as it has been a tradition to have rainy weather when the Book-fair opens to the public.
So instead of hanging around in Cafés (which you should anyway&#8230;), just go to Palácio de Cristal and visit the Fair. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=portoflat.wordpress.com&blog=2636097&post=63&subd=portoflat&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://portoflat.wordpress.com/2008/05/23/the-book-fair-feira-do-livro/</link>
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		<title>The student&#8217;s week: Queima das Fitas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[ 
 
Portuguese students have a tradition, which started in Coimbra (1919), of celebrating the end of the academic life by burning &#8220;queimar&#8221; the laces &#8220;fitas&#8221; representing the near finishing of their studies. As time went by the celebrations extended to all the students.
The biggest Queima das Fitas is held in Porto, having become a festivity of the whole [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=portoflat.wordpress.com&blog=2636097&post=57&subd=portoflat&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://portoflat.wordpress.com/2008/05/08/the-students-week-queima-das-fitas/</link>
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		<title>Learn Portuguese</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Would you like to learn Portuguese?
There are several possibilities to learn Portuguese in town, it pretty much depends on how much you want to spend, how much time do you have and when are there available courses.
Course levels
To go from Absolute beginner (those who know absolutely nothing &#8211; and saying bom dia, boa tarde is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=portoflat.wordpress.com&blog=2636097&post=51&subd=portoflat&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://portoflat.wordpress.com/2008/04/21/learn-portuguese/</link>
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		<title>A beer</title>
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How to order a beer?
You can ask for a fino (phihnu): &#8220;um fino, por favor! &#8220;; which is 20 cl, small wider necked glass, this is the most common request when it comes to beer, served with &#8220;tremoços&#8221; (En:LupineLupinus albus L) a kind of big peas only pigs eat elsewhere, but a treat for the portuguese palate. Mind you, they [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=portoflat.wordpress.com&blog=2636097&post=52&subd=portoflat&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://portoflat.wordpress.com/2008/04/21/a-beer/</link>
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		<title>Francesinhas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever tried a frenchy? No? You definitely need to come to Porto.



 

 The Past
Once upon a time, some say, during the period of the French Invasions, the french soldiers used to eat sandwiches of mixed meats and a lot of cheese. One main ingredient was missing: the sauce folks of Porto poured over the sandwich. But in fact it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=portoflat.wordpress.com&blog=2636097&post=49&subd=portoflat&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://portoflat.wordpress.com/2008/02/23/francesinhas/</link>
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		<title>Tascas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m hungry! Walking down the street I look for a place to eat. There are several possibilities, if you take into account the fact that in Portugal there is one restaurant for each 131 inhabitants (375 per restaurant in EU). So the choice is rather big, and what I&#8217;d really like is one of those traditional, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=portoflat.wordpress.com&blog=2636097&post=38&subd=portoflat&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://portoflat.wordpress.com/2008/02/20/tascas/</link>
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		<title>Stay in Porto</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Where do you prefer to stay when travelling?
To stay in an hotel? A boarding house? Bed and Breakfast? Maybe an apartment/flat?
You can stay in one of the above flats (check their pages), but you can alternatively stay either in an hotel (you have all major known hotels) or in more traditional, mostly family run boarding houses or guesthouses. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=portoflat.wordpress.com&blog=2636097&post=4&subd=portoflat&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://portoflat.wordpress.com/2008/01/29/flats-in-porto/</link>
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