Volleyball is a great game. But I joke that it's basketball for out of shape wimps since there's no contact and the players have the luxury of a brief vacation between points, which basketball players don't usually get. In Porto I play full court for two hours with three groups of 20-50 year olds. 3 minutes between 21 point games. The food in Porto is wonderful and that's what it takes to earn my calories.

Northern post-Soviet and Iberian/Mediterrenean Europe provide an interesting dichotomy, views of how to live an optimised life. Nowhere is the country you live in like the country you visit.