Porto Hostel

Gallery Hostel - Porto

Can't recommend this hostel enough:
http://www.gallery-hostel.com/en/

Particularly - an art gallery on the inside (and over the road from another gallery), communal three course delicious meals served with the staff and their wine; a substantial DVD collection with a cinema-room, guitars, bikes and a terrace.  What's not to like?!

+ Breiner '85 gig venue
+ Muralhas wine
+ Liveria Lello & Imao
+ Restaurante Salta-O-Muro (Matosinhos district)

Spent a lovely few days there with Nick & Jon at Easter, before partying in Bairro Alto, Lisbon and visiting Braga for their pre-Easter build up.

Australian culture - checklist

Have been given something of a cultural checklist to work through on the trip:

Films (Rotten Tomatoes scores in brackets) - mention to Craig
Mad Max (95%)
Baz Luhrmann's Strictly Ballroom (95%)
Picnic at Hanging Rock (91%)
Crocodile Dundee (88%)
Rabbit-proof fence (88%)
Gallipoli (81%)
Romper stomper (80%)

Music
AC/DC, INXS, Silverchair, Kylie (not much to go on, then...)

Food/drink (largely thanks to Simone)
Dimsims
Big M's
Lemon bitters
Golden gaytime
Snags
Tim-tam slam
Goon juice
Twisty's

Animalia:
Cane toads, and the necessary koalas, kangaroos, parrots and platypus.