Day 5 Overview

Explored the north side of the river again in the morning and walked over the bridge in the afternoon. A lot of walking up and down the steep hills, but Porto is quite compact. We covered a total of 14,974 steps or 10.1km.

Dinner at Taberna d'Avo. Nancy had noted this cute restaurant very near our accommodation and it had good reviews. Run by a couple, no reservations, come 10 minutes early if you want a table when they open at 1900 hrs as there are only 10 tables. We were first in line and were quickly seated with the other three groups waiting and it quickly filled up. One waiter managed all the tables efficiently and we enjoyed our appetizers of Portuguese sausage, bread and sardine pate followed by cod fish cakes served with rice and beans. It looked like a soup but you strained the rice and beans out and it was very tasty, the food in Portugal is not overly salty despite the extensive use of "salt cod" which requires soaking for a day or two to desalt and reconstitute it. We plan to learn more about the history of cod at a specialty museum in Lisbon.Read more