Riding the tube

September 28, 2005 - Posted by André Restivo- 0 Comments

I had to leave my car today in the garage for scheduled maintenance. So I decided that this was the best opportunity to test the brand new Metro do Porto Yelllow line.

I kept a log of how much time it took to get to from there to my work:

  • 9:20 - Left the garage on foot
  • 9:28 - Arrived at the metro station (8 minutes)
  • 9:29 - Bought my ticket
  • 9:30 - Inside the train (red line)
  • 9:38 - Arrived at Trindade (8 minutes)
  • 9:39 - Inside the train (yellow line)
  • 9:48 - Arrived at the Polo Universitário station (9 minutes)
  • 9:58 - Finished walking all the time Arrived at FEUP (10 minutes)
  • 10:02 - In my office (4 minutes)

Statistics:

  • Total time: 42 minutes
  • Time walking: 22 minutes
  • Time in the trains: 17 minutes
  • Time waiting for the trains: 2 minutes

Pros:

  • Much predictable than going by car.
  • You can read while you travel.
  • Much cheaper (speccially after the recent gas price scalade).
  • You can do some exercise.

Cons:

  • In average slower than driving.
  • You must do some exercise ;-)
  • You get wet if it rains.

So, is it worth it? I’m not entirely convinced. But it is definitively a nice alternative.



World Champions

December 12, 2004 - Posted by André Restivo- 0 Comments

The European / South American (Toyota Cup) is ours.

After 120 minutes, where we only saw F.C. Porto trying to win the game and Once Caldas desperate to get to the penalty kicks (as their golakeeper was a supposed penaltyt kick expert) the final result served justice well.

During the game F.C. Porto saw two goals disalowed for pretense offside (the second one clearly wasn’t) and four balls hitting the posts and the crossbar.

In the end the best team won and all is well!

Seventeen years later F.C. Porto is once again crowned the best team of the world.



Finally a final

July 1, 2004 - Posted by André Restivo- 0 Comments

After being defeated 3 times in major competitions semi-finals Portugal finally maded it all the way through a final. The win against Holland by 2-1 seemed too easy even with Scolari deciding to over-complicate the game by defending a single goal advantage.

The result: Party all over the place all night long!

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Is this snow?

February 28, 2003 - Posted by André Restivo- 1 Comment

We don’t get much snow where I live, in fact the last time it
really snowed in Porto I was 10 years old and that was a long time
ago. Even stranger is the fact that this event didn’t happen in the
peak of the winter, its not that cold and it only lasted a few
minutes. So this is what it looked like near my house the day
before yesterday.
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