Thursday, December 14, 2006

Scholardom On A Hilltop - Coimbra, Portugal, 14th Dec 2006

The town square in Coimbra, which for me is comfortably small.

Coimbra is a university town, very much after the fashion of Cambridge, only the signs are in Portuguese rather than English.

Inside the compounds of the university, situated on top of a hill and accessible only by a rather gruelling climb. Otherwise a pretty little place.

Portuguese students who, I cannot emphasise this enough, asked me for a picture, and who think all the Chinese in the world can speak neither English nor Portuguese.

The Montego River, which flows through Coimbra, and University Hill (a name I've made up).

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