Hotel Tuela Oporto

... are. The distilleries were surprisingly accessible, with all of them offering tours of the caves and tastings, for a fee of course. We were only able to visit a couple (Porto seems to close for 2 hours during lunch) before catching our evening flight out, but we are glad to have tried some new and very interesting kinds of port. Thank you Portugal, we will be back to see more.

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... city. Narrow streets tumbling down to the river with washing hanging from the windows. Lots of bridges, trams and traffic. One side of the river was the centre for the production of port. We went to one of them and sampled some of the product. <br><br>We stayed about 100 meters from the sea. Miles and miles and miles of golden sand and boardwalks. We did a lot of walking and a lot of cycling. Beautiful weather. We then moved onto Aveiro further down the coast.

... getting to the place - one woman threatened to throw out her sat nav after taking the wrong turn numerous times. The rain continued and as the camp site only offered sites under oak trees we had a few very noisy nights with water dripping, acorns and oak apples falling on the caravan and a stream running underneath it we decided to move on.

<br> The next day we hit the road to Porto which was a substantial drive of about 5-6 hours. Luckily this is the day the weather decided to turn, so the bad weather was endured from the comfort of the car. We arrived late to Porto and checked into our less then elegant hostel. Our meal was no better. We ...

... we both had a shower. I went first, and wanted to unplug the bath, so I pulled on the cord, but that didn't work, so I twirled the dial, and that did. As I was drying myself, there was a knock on the door. I opened it dripping wet, and the concierge was standing there very concerned. He asked if I was alright, and I said, sure, no problem. Then he explained that the cord I had ...

... isn't it?!?........ 'Get on with it' sigh the crowd with a thinly veiled Python reference 'Get on with it!' they cry..... Ok first up tonight we have 'BEST STOLEN LANDMARK' Lisbon is a great city, but strangely a great city that has uncanny similarities with San Francisco......eerily so......both cities sit on wide estuaries which empty into the sea, have an island prison, steep narrow streets and many many trams......so what does Lisbon do when it needs a ...

My wife and I had the pleasure of 3 months in portugal for business purposes. The people were wonderful, my bartender even more wonderful. The food was excellent, the climate was also stellar. As items come to mind I'll try to update this blog, but it has been 6 years now since we were there in 2001.

... we neglected to realize is that Portugal is an hour behind the rest of mainland Europe. No wonder nobody else was eating dinner the night before or out walking the streets that early in the morning. After we set ourselves back an hour, we did the tour and sampled some Port. It seems like an interesting process as they incorporate numerous grape varieties in each batch and add brandy (about 20%) part way through. The sampling wasn ...