Star Inn 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 drove to Madelana about 8 kilometers from Porto. As we got near Jessica decided that she was no longer going to be our sat nav floozie and left us in the lurch in a narrow cobbled street. A kind passerby volunteered to accompany us out of difficulty but there was no room in the car. Where upon a passing motorist stopped and offered to lead us to the camp site. There followed a journey down twisting cobbled streets some of them two way as he stopped the oncoming ...

... 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.

... 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

When I arrived in Porto's airport the first thing I noticed was that it was clean and modern. It even had fresh flowers in vases in the bathrooms. I think it is the classiest looking airport I have ever been to. I also like the fact that all of the trashcans have different compartments for recycling purposes. If only we made it that easy back in the States. For the four days, that I was in the city it rained/hailed most of the time. The hostel was ...

... to sleep in for a few hours. We came across what we thought was a park, but when we woke up there was a tour group staring at us through a window. I guess we slept at a museum... Woke up and located my hostel, Oporto Sky. We arrived and I could tell instantly that it was an amazing place. Myself and the three dutch guys were given a very warm welcome and offered coffee immediately, even though the dutch guys were not staying there. Also they ...

... through narrow streets and seedy areas enroute to the Rua Catarina. In the distance we could see many church steeples poking up here and there...Jim was a little worried. "Are we going to see all of those churches?!?!" I think he was even afraid to say that, I really wasn't in the mood for churches after the Port wine tasting and then all of the walking - so I set his mind at ease. We walked right by the Cathedral - I just took a photo as we were ...

... bottle. I'm pretty sure the woman next to me would have thrown me out of the seat-pod if I had sprayed it to see how it smelled? The only disconcerting object was the very, very tiny toothpaste tube. You know how when you were little making model cars there would be some tiny tube of hard-core glue which would require you to puncture the metal top before the toxic fumes could come out? Well, this toothpaste had a metal top that required ...

... Douro, thoroughly fed and soaking the sun, mmmmmmmmmm. The cruise was OK, there were a lot of people, but it was great to see Porto from the river, however I though the views were better from the hill at the start of the day. We were quite soaked of sun, food and nice views so we went back to the Hotel to rest and have the closest version to Nando's as possible and a flattened half chick, flamed grilled. Dave did a little work and I watched MTV in German (in Portugal, go figure) and to bed.