PORTLAND OREGON somehow was muddled up with Portland ” Maine last week. It is the city on the west coast of the United States that Lufthansa is flying to from Frankfurt with a daily non-stop 10.5 hours flight from the start of the summer schedules that connects with flights from the UK. The Frankfurt flight is a first for Portland. Situated at the very north of Oregon State Portland, with a population of just over half a million, is 200 miles south of Seattle and 700 miles north of San Francisco (and looking on the web site is down for a ”must visit” for next year). Portland Maine, with a population of just 70,000, is on the east coast and one of the oldest cities in the US dating from 1632, a very pretty throwback 150 miles north of Boston. Its airport is purely domestic although one time it was a popular refuelling point for the north Atlantic.
http://www.ci.portland.or.us