Hotel Dom Henrique Porto

It really is a shame we already booked our flight to France from Porto. We could have easily stayed an extra week in Portugal, there is so much to see here. But we did pretty good with our 2 days in Porto. It's right on the river and the ocean, and on one side of the river are tons of cute, old tiled homes, that look across to the other side of the bank where all of the old Port ...

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... We arrived safely thanks to these total strangers. He advised us not to take the caravan into Porto.<br><br>The next day we went on the bus to Porto and discovered why. The 8 kilometer journey took about an hour as the bus travelled in ever decreasing circles through streets normally impassable to a bus without the use of a horn and the assistance of disgruntled lorry and car drivers who had to backup. On arriving in Porto feeling shaken and stirred we discovered a ...

... without the normal care and as we were going along we suddenly realized that the caravan had become detached. Fortunately the breakaway cable had worked. We reversed and reattached her, no harm having been done. We then had to do a 50 mile detour to get to the camp site. We spoke to other camper and caravaners who had had great ...

... the better part of an hour looking for any restaurant that was opened. Our meals were : a tuna salad (a can of tuna, unrippened tomatoes and lettuce) and pork (a peice of pork, rice and french fries.) Long story short we were more then enthusiastic to get on the road in the morning to leave Porto behind

... Virg: "Can you speak to him?"<br>me: "this is your fault you speak to him"<br>Virg: it's better if you explain, you sound more foreign"<br><br>Moments later, again, we were being escorted to a ticket machine at the next station, being patronisingly read to from the instructions on the ticket machine and told that we were lucky to escape a 95 Euro fine. Oh, happy days.<br><br>Fair dodging aside, we love Porto. We spent our few days ambling around the ...

... almost 50 minutes while waiting in a tiny bus shed under the hot sun. I was about to give up and walk the four miles back when a packed 500 finally rolled up to take me back. The cultured and well traveled Belgian woman had also recommended the Museo de Arte Contemporanea. Fortunately museums are definitely not my thing so I'll pass on another of her Porto must sees. Besides, getting there required another tram ride and the 203 bus.

... just spread out on the bar, surrounded by people. not the most hygienic, but definitely an energetic atmosphere. and the food was great! we tried the cod, shrimp, samon, and russian salad dishes. the samon was best, none were bad, but we would pass on the russian saladd nextime. neither of us our big mayo fans! So at about 1020pm we hopped aboard a train across Spain to Portugal. 14 sleepless hours and 3 trains later we finally arrived in ...

... pouring.  Once uncorked, the bottle has to be drunk that same instant or the oxidization will alter the taste and color of the port considerably.     The thing about port wine is that its so sweet and sensuous, that you keep wanting more and more of those chocolate and berry flavours.  But it also ...

28th - We arrived into Porto about 2pm and found the tourist information to get ourselves a map and directions to our hotel for the next couple of nights. We had managed to get ourselves a fairly cheap hotel for the two of us, but didnt realise at the time that it would mean dragging Christines bag up the only hill in Porto. When we got to the hotel, we checked in and it was time for a shower and a quick nap so that we felt like we were ...