
Aviero Portugal (click/tap to enlarge),

is off the beaten tourist track.

Portuguese people often vacation here.

It is the Venice of Portugal, replete with canals and gondolas,

but quieter and more peaceful.

There are old Azulejos tiles all over Aviero,

many depicting the town itself.

Except for cars,

and wonderful street art, Aviero hasn’t changed much from the scenes depicted in the old tiles.
Cheers to you from peaceful Aviero~
Note: My new theme! WordPress tech support was really helpful in sorting out many of the aforementioned blog problems. So thank you WordPress support. You are appreciated!
Such a wonderful place, Cindy, I love the vibrant colors too! ❤️☺️
Aren’t they special. Portugal is beautiful დ
Lovely !
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That looks like a wonderful place to visit! Do you know why it’s not a tourist destination? (I glad WP support was able to sort out your blog issues!)
I would say it is not a major tourist destination. It is not an over touristed place. People seem to tend to go the same main stream destinations which are now crowded with tourists and often unpleasant due to this. Aviero is lesser known and thus blissfully uncrowded and unspoiled. დ
Beautiful path not well beaten.
Yes. They are the best places to visit because you feel like a visitor who just stopped by, not a tourist დ
Lovely theme and engaging photos ( as usual!). I like the tiles and the Venetian flair. 🙂
So thoughtful Linda & so appreciated my friend. Thank you! დ
For every photo I wanted to hit the love button. Wonderful captures Cindy 💝
Ahhh…. Love flying back to you Val & cheers too! დ
Aviero is beautifully rustic. Your photos are superb.
Thank you, Cindy!
PS – Loving the new theme!
Thanks & thanks Resa! And thank you for your help with the theme. It was appreciated დ
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We are both using the same theme. I’m always blown away by how different themes can look when individuals customize them.
Wow! Creative minds must think alike Resa. I had no idea this was your theme! I liked it because I could customize the header, and play the system to get the background color I wanted. I used another image to do this, set the background, and then swapped the image. It also had a pretty traditional page set up which I wanted. It took me eons to change/add/remove the widgets, get rid of cumbersome jetpack widgets, and streamline the archive into something visually simple. I finally like the result. The thing I still want to tweak is the font for the homepage, but I’ll do than in another lifetime! 😉 😉
I like it for all the same reasons! 😉 😉x
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Those tiles and murals – wow. You just don’t see that type of old town art any many places any more. Would love to see this someday! Thanks for letting us e-travel along with you!
You are great to travel with! Thanks for joining me დ
I love the colours!
Aren’t they wonderful! Portugal knows color დ
A painter’s paradise.
Yes indeed! დ
What a beautiful colorful place Cindy, steaming with history. What a privilege to enjoy this place in Spring, and so good Word Press helped you out, it is good when you get the right help.
Yes. Portugal is beautiful and enduring. Without WP support, I could not have done any of it. So I am grateful for tech support.
I’m so happy to hear that your WP issues have been sorted, Cindy! 🙂 This is a wonderfully colourful spot; Venice without the deleterious effects of its popularity.
“Venice without the deleterious effects of its popularity.” Perfectly said. And thank you, WP support saved the day! დ
Love those colors…and what fun to see a Chinese restaurant in the midst of European architecture! I love the new look of your blog, too, Cindy! 😍😍
I eat at Chinese restaurants all over the world. If I see one, I am in it, ordering! I have never had bad Chinese food abroad either which is remarkable. I love Chinese food with a passion დ
The top picture is the perfect opener!
It was good to hear that WordPress support was so helpful. I did experience that several years ago, but mostly I am anxious that one day the platform will make enough “improvements” that it will be the end of my ability or willingness to change, and that will be the end of my blogging. Maybe it won’t happen like that… please God!
It almost reached that point with me, where I was questioning whether the aggravation was worth it. I was trying to transfter so much content and streamline the presentation, and I had to get rid of so much installed junk, and pick among themes that carried more junk, and change them. The hardest part was getting rid of widgets that gooped up my site. I basically disemboweled jetpack which make hurt searchability, but I don’t like it’s junk cluttering up my site. I wouldn’t settle for it being subpar, but it was really difficult to do, and frustrating. I had to bug WP alot to get it done. But I do have to say they were infinitely patient with me, and I have learned quite a bit in the process. So, if it happens to you, persevere. And bug WP until you get it fixed! 😉 😉
Another treasure! 🙂
Thankfully, there still are such! დ
Pretty has always wanted to visit Portugal!! Looks amazing!
I hope you both go. It is a wonderful place to travel in დ
Oh, how colorful.
I have to travel to find whole countries that have used color so creatively for so very long. It is inspiring დ
What a beautiful place, so wonderfully captured by your magnificent lens!
Ahh… I am blessed with the BEST blogging friends! Thank you Dale & cheers დ
It goes both ways! 💞
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Wonderful place to visit with good seafood. I remembered there were some artistic cottage industries. And the place is still so clean and tidy. Your pictures are great, thanks Cindy.
Thank you and, yes! The seafood is fabulous and all the quaint little restaraunts are so charming. It is just an all around wonderful place to stay დ
Ahh you’re off the beaten path to capture these winning shots! ◟(◔ั₀◔ั )◞ ༘💕💕💕
Smiling…. So happy you are traveling along with me virtually! დ
Yup, I love e-touring with you! ʸ(ᴖ́◡ु⚈᷉)♡⃛
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Those tiles are just gorgeous…Haven’t been here but saw a little bit of them in Lisbon…
Lisbon has some incredible tile and mosaics. I like all the different colors. The blue and white azuelos are just gorgeous. I did a post a few years ago about all the different major tile design color combinations. They are so varied and so stunning დ
Beautiful.
Grazie Gigi დ
I love all the vibrant, joyful colors.
Aren’t they just wonderful! I love them too. They had this ‘horror vacui’ or fear of blank spaces, so they filled empty spaces with incredible tilework and mosaics. This is all over Portugal, Spain, andThe Middle East, and it is so beautiful. I always feel deflated when I return to beige and white America დ
You could introduce a new style of house to your part of S. CA. 😊
I actually did that once, a long time ago, just brown with blue trim, beautiful, like Mexican ceramics. The neighbors didn’t like it. I capitulated, repainted it beige and white. I have never bucked the love of beige and white since because it cost me too much money! 😉 😉
That’s sad, Cindy. Why do people have to be so narrow-minded?!
I don’t know. It is a lock-step mentality. Do what we do, or else.
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And old but rich history of a beautiful place dear lady. Great share, thank you 😀❤️🙏
You are so welcome Mark. Thank you! Portugal is an amazing place in so many ways. The less touristed parts give you a glimpse of the enduring living history დ
I could imagine you would find some interesting ‘places’ when you go on offbeat wanders dear lady. Well found 😀❤️🙏
Yes, often the best places are not the ones you actually traveled to see! Yes. დ
This is a marvellous place. Thanks for the beautiful Photos , dear Cindy.
You are very welcome Vera. Thank you more for your very kind comment დ
Those Azulejos tiles! Thank you, Cindy.😍❤️❤️❤️🌺
Smiling. I love them too! You are so welcome დ
Love the vibrant colors and artistry on the boats. Beautiful! Thank you, Cindy. Safe travels.
Thank you Michele. I love the artistry and colors too. So life enhancing! Cheers to you დ
You are welcome, Cindy. 😊 Cheers to photography and a life well lived!
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This sounds fascinating! Thank you for sharing your lovely pictures Cindy.
Thank you much more for appreciating them დ
This is a lovely theme and what a beautiful town you have highlighted!!!
Thank you very much Anne. We live in a small and incredibly beautiful world დ
Happy for your new theme & happy you, best of all. Easier on the eye and now I can read the comments without glasses. Yea. I chose mine for it utter simplicity. The sub-menu gives me all the page-posting I want/need, my blog + “book”. OK to more better stuff…
First you made me smile, then laugh out loud. Add a quizzical look for a tail and there you go! Love the big pictures – how else to see the painting on those boats, from dour frowning lady, to lady with no shame at all. Oh, and I love a seasoning of real people too. Last, that yellowish building, fascinating. Yea, someone standing in the window – oh no, it’s a portrait painting – odd sense of humor that don’t stop there. OK, nice, those painted birds & shadows beside the balcony. Hey wait, is that balcony for real or just another painting – including the cat and bird up top. In fact, close inspection suggests this is all illusion, no windows, no nothing at all except for someone with a paint brush in hand. What a lovely adventure you made for us! Thanks Cindy. I enjoyed myself.
You are exactly right. Incredibly observant, and you noticed all the fascinating and clever details that so intrigued me. Very hard to do with a photograph and not the real thing I’m impressed დ
A nice report. Nice that everything worked with the new theme, that’s not always without problems. Best regards Wolfgang
Thank you Wolfgang. Getting the bugs and theme set up was quite a headache. I noticed some of the ‘repaired’ PHP errors are back! 😉
That’s a shame, I wish you the best of luck.
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colourful!
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Looks like a fabulous place. It’s on my list to visit.
Wonderful. I look forward to hearing about your trip! დ
This European barely knows Portugal at all, and this post tells me how much I’m missing out. Nice new theme, Cindy – crisp and inviting.
Thank you Margaret. We are finally biting the bullet and resuming more adventurous travel. Covid took the winds out of our sails, but they the sails are back up and the wind is blowing! დ
Hooray! Be sure to share your wonderful discoveries!
I am tired of my covid caution. A return to Antarctica and new trip to Greenland. I will so enjoy traveling with you Margaret.
Hooray! Thank you: you have such a knack for discovery.
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At first, I read the headline as “avioero,” which means divorce in Finnish. For a moment – still groggy from sleep – I wondered why you were writing in Finnish…
but beautiful place! 🤣
Smiling…. Makes me want to return to Finland! დ
Your usual excellent photographs. I really like those with such colourful reflections. You do well to observe the changelessness of images then and now
Thanks very much Derrick. This changelessness over time is fascinating to me დ
New theme looks great!
Thank you Emma! დ
Visited Aveiro at the end of March, taking train from Porto. A charming spot.
Yes. We did the same. The Aviero train station is breathtaking isn’t it! დ
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so rich and colourful. We both had Portugal on our minds..waves..
Synchronicity! 🙂 დ
Stunning. We’re actually thinking of going to Portugal later this summer.
Oh I hope you go, and add some of the quieter, lesser visited areas to you itinerary დ
Beautiful photos and I’ve looked at them over and over, …they’re so full of brilliant colour and architectural delight, …thank you for sharing these highlights of your trip, …✨🙏✨Penn✨
What a truly lovely comment! You make me happy I posted. Cheers to you and thank you for stopping by დ
I had no idea. Thank you for taking us there with you cindy. Beautiful.
You are great to travel virtually with Steve and thank you! დ
Aviero looks beautiful and much less crowded than Venice!
Yes indeed. Poor Venice, Rome, Florence, Cinque Terre, all besieged by tourist hordes… დ
Not a big fan of crowded cities, areas, or beaches. This city
looks a little like heaven on Earth Cindy. Thank you for turning
me on to it. Charming and quiet!
You and I think alike. I am allergic to crowds too დ
Not that I don’t like having friends
like you for instance!
Visa versa 2UX2!
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love you too Cindy
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hugs dear heart
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This was an amazing we saw we visited in Portugal. These paintings were on these walls. These boats were these canals and very photogenic. Anita
Yes. It is charming and quiet, just what I enjoy most დ
Now that’s on my bucket list Cindy, thanks for sharing.
Leslie
Oh I do hope you go! I know you will very much enjoy it Leslie დ
Cindy, I’m so happy you got your new WP theme sorted out. Gee, when I first clicked on, I thought I was in the wrong place! It looks totally different, but refreshingly new. And the colors in these buildings are wonderful!
Smiling…. Such nice thoughts Debbie. Thanks much. Cleaning up the site was truly a headache. I notice the PHP errors are still happening even though I was told they were fixed! Oh well, still pleased with the progress დ
Looks quite beautiful, Cindy! Love the colors.
No beige and boring in Portugal thank goodness! დ
Beautiful captures! Hopefully get there next year 🧡🧡
Oh, lovely! I look forward to reading about it on your blog დ
Thank you for taking us there, Cindy! 💖
You are great fun to virtually travel with Amy დ
I love the colour of the houses.
Aren’t they lovely! Cheers my friend დ
Beautiful pictures! The artwork is impressive.
Happy you enjoyed Andrew & thanks for stopping by დ
That’s a lovely spot. How did you come to discover it?
I read about it doing pre-trip research დ
Wonderful!!
Grazie mille Jennie დ
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I love the very colorful architecture there!
Isn’t it wonderful! I love it too დ
Oh so cheerful…thanks for this series, Cindy.
Thank you more for your thoughtful appreciation & take good care დ
Fantastic pictures, so colourful, Cindy and I do like the new theme very much. ♥
Thank you Ute! Very happy you enjoyed დ
What a beautiful place to be! 🙂 And what fine pictures of it you show us!
I like the new theme more than the old one. Good choice, dear Cindy!
Your kind comments make me smile Martha. Happy you enjoyed Aviero my friend & cheers to you დ
I love the colorful boats and bluuuue tiles!
Happy you do John. They are special aren’t they დ
How very lovely. You beat me there Cindy. Never been to Portugal. I should…
Are there right now? Must be precious…
Enjoy
No we are home now. Heading off soon though…. I think you would love Portugal დ
Heading off again? good.
Até logo… 😉
Yep. First, a distant Channel Island, then Quebec wilderness, then back to Antarctica, and finally Greenland. And then my bucket list is checked and complete დ
All right… In that order? Isn’t Greenland closer to Québec?
Bucket list? So you will now stay at home in your “cottage in the English countryside and write your Mémoires? 😉
Actually yes. We are going to Quebec woods in fall to see the colors. Antartica in their summer, and then Greenland in our summer. So yeah, backtracking a bit…. We are going to The Faroes too to see the puffins.
Understood. Quite a nice programme. Bon voyage…
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Such fabulous, vibrant colors, Cindy. Great photos!
So appreciated Jane. Thanks much & cheers დ
E’ sempre un gran piacere, soffermarsi sulle tue variopinte pagine.
Buona domenica, silvia
La tua gentile premura è così apprezzata da me Silvia. Grazie caro amica e stai bene e al sicuro დ
Beautiful photos! Such cheerful and gorgeous colors, Cindy! 💖
Thank so much Eugi & take good care my friend დ
You’re welcome, Cindy!
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Nice theme! Beautiful captures of Aviero as well. At first we thought the houses were those in Burano, Venice.
Smiling! Yes! Aviero reminds me of Venice, and Burano. It is just so less traveled. Poor Venice. It is being over loved დ
Nice photo array 🙂
Thank you June დ
Love your new theme! Which one did you choose?
Also love these photos. Aviero looks gorgeous.
Alison
Love our theme discussions Alison. I chose Lovecraft. I got rid of so much garbage on my site while transferring content which was so hard. I could never have done it without WP patient tutelage, but there are still WP imbedded code/script errors that are beyond my ability to remove, and theirs apparently, which is disconcerting. I like things simple and right. I think I fixed my worst google site errors too, at least I am tracking right now. Working with google AI is challenging but logical and actually kinda fun. But that is it. I am done with all this. Laughing…. Happy I survived WP retirement, and you did too, Alison! We’re survivors. PS- I’m traveling again, Antarctica again and Greenland. Where are you off to next? დ
Wow your theme change sounds so much more complicated than mine. Too bad about the embedded code errors🙁 I hope they don’t cause you any grief going forward. I can’t imagine working with Google AI – that’s so far beyond my capability.
I’ve always loved WP and twice now I’ve had them help me with themes and they’ve been fantastic. Yes! We survived WP retirement!
Antarctica and Greenland! How fabulous. We’re not going anywhere for a while. Enjoying Vancouver summer and will maybe look at something after that.
Alison
You’ve been traveling more than we have lately, so your plan sounds wonderful. Vancouver in the summer is grand! Enjoy.
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I’ve always liked Portugal. Understated, even though they main language for Brazil is Portugese. Ernest Hemingway made a big impression there -in Portugal. Viva Portugal. You have brought out the “SPLENDID” in that country. BRAVO to you!
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Loved Portugal….the history, the architecture, the natural beauty, the exceptionally kind people.
Loved Portugal: The natural beauty, the history, the architecture, but particularly the amazing kindness of the people.
Yes. We concur. And in that order. Blessings to you Eileen დ
You mentioned in a previous reply about not passing up on Chinese. Sweet and sour pork, steamed rice, slowed cook all day. It’s 8:20 pm ET, you have an hour to make dinner, LOL. 😊
If you’re going to Finland, make sure you bring your body armor. From what I understand, there was a run on body armor today on a rumor.
Laughing…. Got it! Slow cooked sweet-sour pork sounds divine. Wish I were there! Enjoy დ
Such beautiful color. Thanks for the mini tour Cindy. Enjoy Portugal! <3
Thanks much my friend & hope all is well with you დ
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Wow! You are in Portugal. My husband’s favourite. We are in Lisbon from 12 th to 15 th! Fantastic photos of a special place. Enjoy!
Lisbon is so wonderful. Portugal is special. I love the Duoro Valley. Enjoy! დ
What a beautiful town. I’ve never heard of it, but those tiles and the colorful gondolas are eye-catching!
Thank you Kathy. Aren’t they wonderful. So old and still being lived in დ
I am a little late to this amazing party, Cindy. Off the beaten pathways are the best places to walk. I LOVE you new template.
Thanks much Rebecca. The template and transfer was a major headache but it is done! Cheers to you my friend დ
How colorful! Lovely, Cindy!
Thank you Donna. I was just over at your site being bowled over by your eagle and osprey action sequence! დ
Just stunning, Cindy! I love the colors.
So happy you do & thank you! დ
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Fresh and beautiful look of your blog! I am glad, Cindy, you solved the problem with WP.
Portugal is beautiful country and the Tourist Mecca. However, you always find nice, unique, and quiet places everywhere. 🙂
Thank you very much Alexander. I agree with you. Porto for example, is beautiful, but over touristed. I like finding the less traveled spots. They are oddly, ususally the most special დ
Enjoy your journey!
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This is so lovely! <3 Makes me want to go there. Thank you for sharing xx
You make me happy I posted Carol. Thank you very much! დ
These photos are amazing. I was fascinated by the art on the gondolas. I looked up the translation for the first one. I think it’s, “I keep the marine tradition.” =) ♥
How wonderful that you did that! I love the motto. It speaks to the long living history of this wonderful town. Amazing you thought to do this and thank you for sharing! დ
Oh you’re very welcome! I don’t know if the translation is exactly right because I used Google Translate. Maybe “marina” not “marine.” But it’s so fascinating! ♥
Yes. It is evocative and lovely.
Want to go there!
Yay! I hope you do soon დ
What bright and beautiful colors!
Happy you enjoyed Sharyl and, yes, Portugal, Spain and Italy are not afraid of vibrant and beautiful use of color. დ
Portugal is on my bucket list, Cindy. Thanks for the armchair travel.
You are a great virtual traveling companion Carla. Cheers! დ
Looks lovely there Cindy😀I was advised by the travel agents that Porto in Portugal was a good holiday spot and also has a beach ⛱️ Ended up in Jamaica 🇯🇲 😀 but still thinking about Porto…now seeing your post, even more so! Never really planned to go to Europe but now Portugal 🇵🇹 is tugging merrily away at me seeing your post!
I’m on the phone app so can’t see your new theme but once I’m on the laptop 😁 Very hard work changing the theme though! All the old posts needed rearranging and many were deleted altogether, so well done you!
Porto is fabulous and worth a visit. It is however very touristed so be aware. You can get away from the crowds in Porto by going to lesser visited places and you can also vist other parts of beautiful and unspoiled Portugal and avoid the crowds altogether დ
I had a feeling it might be somewhat touristy…I was enquiring about weekend city breaks at the time and it would have been my 1st time away. I’d never really considered Portugal but they said it had a beach and was a bit cooler than the other option they suggested in Spain (I cannot remember the location for love or money now!) Russia was my main aim so hadn’t given much thought to European countries but considered them for a short practice run and they were said to be safe for a solo female traveller 👍There was plenty to do there but not sure those countries are really for me. Besides, I speak Russian not Spanish or Portuguese so no language practice for me!
Sounds like you are narrowing places down nicely. Look forward to hearing where you end up going.