Flourish and Blotts

Arrived with a group of pilgrims into Porto today. There was one person from the Netherlands one person from San Francisco another from Poland someone from Austria, New Zealand, and Ireland so we had many countries represented. I also passed someone else from Spain. Porto is beautiful along the river It’s just a stunning city, but it is big and there are lots of people - a little different from the countryside that I’ve been walking through for the past two weeks after leaving Lisbon. met up with Tammy and her husband, William, and Rachelle for dinner and then went to a wine bar called Scarlet, which has locations in Porto, Bangkok, and Hong Kong.

The walk today was mostly downhill with a few uphill portions, walking and various settings, heavy traffic, old Roman roads forest, and then eventually the suburbs of Porto and then down to the city of Porto.

A famous bookstore called Livraria Lello which is where JK Rowling is said to have been inspired during a 1991, while writing the 1st Harry Potter Novel and is used as its basis for Hogwarts and the wizardly bookstore in the Harry potter universe. . It is so popular now that you have to go online and purchase tickets for the privilege of entering their store, but is well worth the 10 euros.Read more