Mr. VanKleek

This past Friday night my roommate, Ronnie, invited me to come along with him to a friends house in Locust Point (South Baltimore) on the Inner Harbor . Our friend, Matt, was there who just recently got back from studying abroad for a semester in Prague, Czech Republic. Matt happened to have a friend coming into town who was a local that he met in Prague. I haven't seen Matt in a while because I've been home in Edgewater for the summer so we were catching up on what had been going on with each other and my trip to Portugal came up. Matt was naturally really stoked for me and told me that Nick "Kleek" VanKleek, his friend from Prague, had just gotten back from there and I should go talk with him.

I was extremely jazzed on Portugal before I spoke with Kleek but after talking with him I absolutely cannot wait to get there. Kleek is definitely someone whom I would consider a world traveler. He has been to 28 countries and visited some of the most exotic places in the world. He told me that of all the gorgeous beaches in the world (Thailand, South of France, Greece, Hawai'i etc.) that he has never in his life been to a more gorgeous and down to earth place as the South of Portugal. He had his iPhone with him and showed me a few pictures - I asked him if he'd email me a few of them. In his email he mentioned that a girl happened to break his camera right before he left Portugal so all he had were the few pictures he took with his phone. The pictures below are of the red rock cliffs in the South of Portugal, not the beaches he described. As this is a public forum I've decided to omit the photos of the nude beaches (sorry gentlemen!)