Saturday in Porto

 Our final day in Porto

Another crappy night of sleep for both of us.   Disheartening!

Today we walked and walked. We started by going to a church and a municipal building with a great story ( as related by our guide a few days ago).  A powerful municipal man (back in the day) wanted a specific church ( with a great view of the river valley) to be demolished in order to make a grand building for the city. The local church bishop said “Nao!” (No!).

In retaliation the powerful man built a huge beautiful building in front of the church thus blocking its’ view. 

The first photo is the church and the second photo is the very impressive municipal building. 

We carried on walking and revisited Palacio de Cristal to walk more of the gardens, followed by a leisurely walk towards the city centre. 

We stopped at a sidewalk bar for a Portuguese beer and croquets. Yummy!

We walked all the way to the main bridge, then over into the city of Guia (south side of river)

The reason to go there is all the restaurants, bars, and wine cellars along the river bank where you can get many wine samples to taste from the wineries that run the specific place you stopped in at. 

We chose Ramos Pinto (founded in 1880). We chose a tray with five types of wine for beginners and  five types of wine  for intermediate connoisseurs!

We had a great conversation with a couple from Wisconsin while enjoying our wine samples. They were really into curling. 

We were getting tired at this point (about 3 PM) so we started back “home” but first we climbed UP the river bank streets and crossed on top of the bridge. What fantastic views!

Back at home we had great naps and afterwards we went walking on the next street over from here which has a lot of cafe’s, shops etc and while there we picked up some Portuguese style subs and brought back here for our supper. 

We really enjoyed the day ( and it was the second in a row with lots of sunshine!)