Rick B
11 Dec 2006, 04:15 PM
Ive been too busy recently to put up the photo's from the past few games, apologies about that as I know a lot of people like looking at the photo's. Ive also got some video clips on this thread too for you to watch.
So Porto, well when we got the draw I think all of us were quite happy. Many of us have never seen the club play in Portugal and we were thinking nice sunshine, nice food and nice drink on the coast..........hmmmmm. december in Porto had more damm rain than there was in London!! It hardly stopped apart from the morning of the game, and most of that morning the majority of us were recovering from the previous nights exploits!!
We flew in Monday and had a quick ride to the hotel by taxi. Made the usual calls and found where the others already in town were. A little bar down on the river that was playing rock music. I enjoyed it as one of the bartenders was a Pearl Jam fan and had quite a few live CD's of their concerts!! They also had Havana Club 7 Year rum, which doesn't makie for an early night. Thankfully on the night we arrived it was a relativly tame 4.30am.........:rolleyes:
The next day was spent wondering around the town, up the furnicular, into a Port Factory and looking at the Cathedrel (see, football fans can do culture too!!) We went back to the hotel to rest before the drinking and eating that was inevitably going to follow.......
We had a nice meal down by the river and went back to a bar to watch the Barca game, after that to a new Irish bar where we relaxed until it closed at about 1am. Choice - back to hotel, or onto Rock bar from previous night.......hmmm, hard choice!! When we arrived it was packed with everyone we knew and I can only tell you about stuff until about 4am.......we got back to the hotel at about 6am and slept it off. (Judy, Michelle and Jay are banned from posting in this thread........:D )
The day of the game we had a nice Tapas lunch before a quick drink and making our way to the stadium. I have to say it was magnificent. It was built for the Euro 2004 Championships alongside a shopping centre which was a bit surreal. The atmousphere inside the ground was great and although we expected a boring 0-0 after Porto hit the post twice it didn't do much for hearts!! Their fans were great though and we had a lone trumpeter serenading us at the end whilst we were kept in which was quite amusing, you can hear him on the video bit Ive posted.
After the game we went for a nice meal in the main square before having an early night as we had a flight at 9.30am. 3 nights well spent with a great time!!
Photo's from Porto (http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=2b1yg0gp.2y6q2dfh&x=0&y=uhslxj)
Video of Arsenal fan in Porto (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZyWKqEs32k)
So Porto, well when we got the draw I think all of us were quite happy. Many of us have never seen the club play in Portugal and we were thinking nice sunshine, nice food and nice drink on the coast..........hmmmmm. december in Porto had more damm rain than there was in London!! It hardly stopped apart from the morning of the game, and most of that morning the majority of us were recovering from the previous nights exploits!!
We flew in Monday and had a quick ride to the hotel by taxi. Made the usual calls and found where the others already in town were. A little bar down on the river that was playing rock music. I enjoyed it as one of the bartenders was a Pearl Jam fan and had quite a few live CD's of their concerts!! They also had Havana Club 7 Year rum, which doesn't makie for an early night. Thankfully on the night we arrived it was a relativly tame 4.30am.........:rolleyes:
The next day was spent wondering around the town, up the furnicular, into a Port Factory and looking at the Cathedrel (see, football fans can do culture too!!) We went back to the hotel to rest before the drinking and eating that was inevitably going to follow.......
We had a nice meal down by the river and went back to a bar to watch the Barca game, after that to a new Irish bar where we relaxed until it closed at about 1am. Choice - back to hotel, or onto Rock bar from previous night.......hmmm, hard choice!! When we arrived it was packed with everyone we knew and I can only tell you about stuff until about 4am.......we got back to the hotel at about 6am and slept it off. (Judy, Michelle and Jay are banned from posting in this thread........:D )
The day of the game we had a nice Tapas lunch before a quick drink and making our way to the stadium. I have to say it was magnificent. It was built for the Euro 2004 Championships alongside a shopping centre which was a bit surreal. The atmousphere inside the ground was great and although we expected a boring 0-0 after Porto hit the post twice it didn't do much for hearts!! Their fans were great though and we had a lone trumpeter serenading us at the end whilst we were kept in which was quite amusing, you can hear him on the video bit Ive posted.
After the game we went for a nice meal in the main square before having an early night as we had a flight at 9.30am. 3 nights well spent with a great time!!
Photo's from Porto (http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=2b1yg0gp.2y6q2dfh&x=0&y=uhslxj)
Video of Arsenal fan in Porto (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZyWKqEs32k)