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Photos: AirBnB Porto
Finally getting around to posting photos of the interior. Now that we have left. id highly recommend this place. https://photos.app.goo.gl/ErdrwRPhAmZaJAau7
Now that’s what we old folk used to call a camera
Who remembers Brownie box cameras? Or Polaroids and the waving of the photo sheet with its curved edges, watching as the photo developed magically within a few minutes? Oh my god, and one’s first Minolta or Canon SLR and trying to figure out f-stops and the endless adjusting, never being absolutely sure it was clearly…
Adeus, Douro
Porto is all about the river. All roads lead up from or down to the Douro. As much as I shrugged off plugging along the inland waters in a tour boat, walking the Porto promenades on either side of the Douro is instantly refreshing, and I have to admit I’m going to miss that river…
Azulejos everywhere
We visited the museum of azulejos (tiles) in Lisbon and have posted photos of beautifully tiled exterior walls. Many depict scenes plucked from Portuguese history and those are almost always blue and white. How did these things come to be? I never did explain. When Wynette (thank you, Wynette) posted a link to an article…
Photos: Douro Valley
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One of me is a secret port addict
We joined a day excursion tour of the Douro Valley, about an hour and a half’s ride from Porto. The Douro Valley produces the best Port wine in the world. In fact, only wine made in this region is allowed to be labeled ’Port’’. So, not really any competition. Two wineries, 8 generous tastings of…
Vidi, Vidi, Verdi
Tour to the Douro valley where the grapes are famous for making great port and excellent vino verde. Ella and I aren’t the tour type of travelers. Groups make it difficult to wander off, my specialty. Sitting in vans for long stretches of time while a guide tries to feed us fascinating facts becomes tedious…
Tombstone tourist?
Yeah, I like me a good cemetery. I think cemeteries give Grubb the heebie jeebies though he claims to like the skulls and bones in catacombs. He always gives me the “oh brother, here we go” look when I suggest we go see this one or that one. I am not an extremist about this. You…
Take that, Napoleon
An Albuquerque statue in Porto? How could we resist? We weren’t sure whether it was the seafaring Albuquerque who bullied his way into India and points east, but according to our Google map the “Albuquerque Statue” was in the middle of a park making up a roundabout near a graveyard Ella wanted to visit. So…