Glimpses of Gaia

My pictures of Gaia do not really do the city justice, nor do they show very much of the city at all--mostly places that were most familiar to me. I was transferred from Valadares to Gaia at the end of February 2003 and stayed there (except for a few weeks adventure in Porto) until I left Portugal in January 2004. It is hard to describe what this place (and the people) mean to me--really just a "home away from home", I suppose!

Here I am at my old apartment building:
The street outside the praceta where the apartment is:
The "talho" (meat store?) that my companions & I had to pass every day when we left our apartment...
The sign on the church building:
"The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Visitors Welcome."
The Gaia ward building:
Around Gaia (more towards the riverfront)...

...those cobblestone streets...

Gaia houses the wineries for the famous Port wine companies (located on the Gaia side of the Rio Douro)--these are two of the wine companies buildings: