Walking Porto

Walking and caching day today. While Bek and Jake did the walking tour of the bookshop etc with Rui, we let the caches be our guide through the city and ended up at Cristal Palace, a Victorian garden with a view over the Douro River. Within the grounds is Super Bock Arena, a sporting and cultural arena built in 1954 (and 7 caches 😁).

We used the river taxi to cross the Douro in time to meet the others for lunch, at the market in Gaia, which is the name of the city on the south side of the Douro River. The city contains many cellars (locally known as "caves") where port wine is stored and aged, so Oliver and Jake took part in a tasting of 5 varieties of port (neither were won over 🙄).

We walked back to our hotel via the train station and the flashest McDonald's around, in what was previously an iconic Portuguese 1930's cafe.Read more