Hotel Tryp Porto Centro

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

... swimming in a mild spicy sauce), which was very nice, but very filling. Then on to Port wine makers Grahams. They have 7 bottles of their 1868 vintage left, but we didn't get to taste that. We got given a white port, a ruby port, and a tawny port. Surprisingly, some of our group didn't drink theirs, so I had to go around cleaning up after them - well, someone had to do it!! Before ...

Oporto presents.........................the first annual Best/Worst awards for mainland Portugal! That's right folks after the success and critical acclaim of the Spanish Best/Worst awards Jamangie brings you a new and hopefully even more amusing event live from Oporto!......ok it's not live......not even close......in fact its well at least a month since I wrote notes for this blog..............not that I write notes or anything......it's always completely ...

... feel of the city is quite grand. We headed back to the restaurant near the bus station that the host had recommended to us. It was a buffet for just six euro a head which represented great value even though there were only a few things that we chose to eat. The restaurant got busier and busier as the night went on. It was clearly a favourite haunt for the young people of Porto. We headed back to our apartment. Although it was only about 9.30 on a Friday night it the streets were very quiet.

... out as we both enjoyed the octopus greatly. That was about all we could handle for day one as big travel days can take a bit out of us. The next morning we headed out to explore more of the city. We went to the waterfront and across the river to the distillery section (there are 23 of them all in a row). We stopped into the "Calem" factory for a tour. They said the next tour was at 11:45. We were confused as our watches said 11:48 ...

... of Portugal should carry books in Galician language!). Anyway, now I am beginning to feel my goal in visiting Porto is accomplished - I have met my rather distant relatives who live in the surroundings, some of which took me on a tour through my grandfather's village, including the place where he lived (which is empty now) and his school (which still stands) and, more importantly, I have now been here for long enough ...