Porto

We woke pretty early after a good sleep. Just after 7am we headed out for a walk in search of coffee along the Rio Tejo toward the Vasco da Gama tower.

Not much opens before 8am it seems. So we looped back to the train station area and had a light breakfast there just after 8am at Jeronymo’s on the main plaza.

Back to the hotel then, we showered, packed and walked to the bus station. The 10:10am FlixBus got us to Porto by about 1:30pm.

The route was a good 4-lane freeway through farmland. Lots of olive trees and tall slender eucalyptus groves.

On arrival in Porto we walked the 3km to our hotel, stopping off for a very good lunch (falafel sandwich & shakshouka) in a Middle Eastern place in a very busy part of town.

Our hotel is opposite the Trindade metro station.

In the evening we took the metro down to the Cathedral where we need to collect our credencial tomorrow to officially start our “caminhada”.

After a stroll through the very steep and labyrinthine back streets of old Porto we found a place to dine: octopus with a good local (Douro) red wine.Read more