Porto, Portugal

We slept in a bit this morning, and still haven’t had a decent shower, as the hostel has water pressure not much better than dribble.

We started the morning at an internet café around the corner, where we spent some time sending messages home.

We had lunch at the same place as yesterday, before walking down to the river to do a tour of one of the many port producers in the area. Sandeman’s is a London company started in 1790, and based in Porto since 1811. The store has a small museum with a history of the company, which we walked through, while waiting for our tour to start. The tour goes through Sandeman’s cellars, and talks about the company and its processes for making port. At the end we had a taste test of two types of port, the white port and the tawny port. I didn’t go much on them, but Roberta bought a bottle for her parents.

Train Station, Porto, Portugal

Rio Douro, Porto, Portugal

After the tour we went back to the room to freshen up before dinner. Johnny and Luvo met us at our place, and we walked down to the same restaurant as last night.

When we finished there, we went further along the river to some outdoor cafes, where we had drinks until two am. We caught a cab, a Mercedes no less, back to the hostel.