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- Mar 30, 2023, 4:10pm
- 🌬 18 °C
- Altitude: 7 m
- Portugal Porto Vila Nova de Gaia Sandeman 41.138333, -8.61666741°8’18” N 8°37’0” W
Day 51
Alte Hafengebäude
March 30, 2023 in Portugal ⋅ 🌬 18 °C
Die alten Hafengebäude in Gaia werden vielfältig und spektakulär verwendet. Z.B. Brauerei mit Verkaufsständen und Restaurantbetrieb. Eine historische Bibliothek, ein Fischkonserververkauf sowie ein Weinverkostungdomizil.Read more
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Traveler F, SP, PT 2023
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- Mar 12, 2023
- ☁️ 18 °C
- Altitude: 16 m
- Portugal Porto Vila Nova de Gaia Sandeman 41.13651, -8.61576341°8’11” N 8°36’57” W
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Day 57
Afurada und Südufer Villa Nova de Gaia
March 12, 2023 in Portugal ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C
Die berühmten Portwein Händler sind alle hier. Die Weine aus dem Dourotal wurden auf den wendigen Rabelos hierher gebracht. Erste Exporte1279.
Handelsabkommen mit England 1386.
Textilien gegen Wein.
Es wurde dem Wein Brandy zugesetzt um eine bessere Haltbarkeit für die weite Reise zu erzielen. An dem süffigen Ergebnis Portwein fanden besonders die Briten gefallen.Read more
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Traveler 👍heute war es hier auch regnerisch in der Nacht und am Abend morgen gehts nach 🇫🇷
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Traveler Europe 2023
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- Jun 18, 2023
- ☁️ 73 °F
- Altitude: 46 ft
- Portugal Porto Vila Nova de Gaia Sandeman 41.13655, -8.61485341°8’12” N 8°36’53” W
Day 11
Tuk Tuk tour and Port Wine tasting
June 18, 2023 in Portugal ⋅ ☁️ 73 °F
Sunday - we started the day with a rookie mistake. We walked down to river level on the Gaia side and then had to climb stories of stairs to get back to the historic level of Porto. We ultimately learned our way around this, but Porto and Gaia are very hilly and steep. We took a fun Tuk Tuk tour around Porto to see a lot of the famous areas and buildings. We also tried the francesinha, a Porto sandwich which is great comfort food. We also had our first Pastel de Nata, which everyone loved. In the afternoon, we toured four port wine houses and had lots of tastings. White and Rose were very sweet. Tawny and Ruby were better, but thought there wasn’t much variety amongst them all.Read more
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- Aug 11, 2022, 5:38pm
- ☀️ 21 °C
- Altitude: 14 m
- Portugal Porto Vila Nova de Gaia Sandeman 41.136545, -8.61473841°8’12” N 8°36’53” W
Day 4
Port from Porto
August 11, 2022 in Portugal ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
From the Quintas of the Douro Valley comes the fine sweetness of the world famous port wine. The oldest controlled wine-growing region in the world shines with a unique creation of world fame - and traditionally stamps the grapes by foot and music, just like hundreds of years ago. It was the British, Dutch and Germans who introduced port wine to the great stage of the wine world. But the dessert wine is typically Portuguese lust for life, between songs, sun and slate. Port wine is something special, whether Ruby, Tawny, White Port or Rosé.Read more
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- Jun 28, 2022, 4:51pm
- ☀️ 68 °F
- Altitude: 43 ft
- Portugal Porto Vila Nova de Gaia Sandeman 41.136829, -8.61489241°8’13” N 8°36’54” W
Day 8
Port in Porto
June 28, 2022 in Portugal ⋅ ☀️ 68 °F
I visited the rather disappointing Igreja de São Francisco, which was built in spare, Gothic style in the 15th century, but then it was Baroqued up with so very much elaborately carved gilt wood. It was extremely shiny. I grabbed a snack along the waterfront in the Ribeira neighborhood while I waited for the Porto Walkers Port Wine Tour to start. Our guide, Ana, walked us across to the Vila Nova de Gaia side of the river where we visited three port lodges for tastings. We started at Ramos Pinto where we learned about how port was made and the history of the company. They were founded as a local Portuguese firm in 1880 and known for their marketing acumen as well as their port. They became big exporters of port to Brazil, then were bought by Maison Louis Roederer in 1990. The next stop on the tour was Piano Douro Valley, where we tried white and rosé port, neither of which was as good as ruby and tawny ports. We finished at Vasques De Carvalho, which had an excellent tawny port. The tour was so much fun, I went out along the riverfront with some of my fellow travelers afterwards for Super Bock beer.Read more
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- Jun 20, 2023
- ☁️ 72 °F
- Altitude: 26 ft
- Portugal Porto Vila Nova de Gaia Sandeman 41.137347, -8.61569241°8’14” N 8°36’56” W
Day 13
Porto
June 20, 2023 in Portugal ⋅ ☁️ 72 °F
Tuesday - last day of the family vacation. Slept in and went to Conga for traditional lunch comfort food of bifana and francesinha. Walked around town, over to Gaia and took the gondola up to the monastery. We were all tired of local food, so we found Pizzeria S. Martino in Gaia.Read more
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Traveler Porto, Portugal
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- Aug 22, 2023
- ⛅ 32 °C
- Altitude: 122 m
- Portugal Porto Vila Nova de Gaia Monumento a Teixeira Lopes 41.127323, -8.61144241°7’38” N 8°36’41” W
Day 2
Hop On Hop Off Bus
August 22, 2023 in Portugal ⋅ ⛅ 32 °C
We started our day early with a great breakfast buffet at the hotel, then set off to find our bus stop. The long bus ride took us through various parts of the city, but it was quite hot and exhausting. We stopped at a winery to try some port wine and passed by a beach we planned to visit the next day, noting it was quite a distance from our hotel.

For dinner, we enjoyed delicious smash burgers delivered to our door, followed by refreshing drinks from the nearby Starbucks. We capped off the warm and busy day with a relaxing soak in the whirlpool, waiting for the evening to cool before diving in.Read more
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Traveler To infinity and beyond - 2022
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- Dec 12, 2022, 8:11pm
- 🌧 16 °C
- Altitude: 29 m
- Portugal Porto Vila Nova de Gaia Casa do Infante 41.14045, -8.61476741°8’26” N 8°36’53” W
Day 256
OPO - Walking around Porto at Night
December 12, 2022 in Portugal ⋅ 🌧 16 °C
🇧🇷 Depois de um longo dia e alguns dias passados de chuva, pudemos sair a caminhar pelas ruas do Porto, pausa para jantar e tivemos Bacalhau com sardinhas.

🇦🇷 Después de un largo día y algunos días de lluvia, pudimos caminar por las calles de Oporto, hacer un descanso para cenar y comer bacalao con sardinas.

🇺🇸 After a long day and a few days of rain, we were able to walk through the streets of Porto, break for dinner and we had Codfish with sardines.Read more
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Iberia
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- Jun 24, 2022
- ⛅ 20 °C
- Altitude: 97 m
- Portugal Porto Vila Nova de Gaia 41.11793, -8.619241°7’5” N 8°37’9” W
Day 15
Porto City
June 24, 2022 in Portugal ⋅ ⛅ 20 °C
Heute erkundeten wir ohne die enormen Menschenmassen die Stadt 🏰
Zwischen alten Kirchen welche mit sogenannten Azujelos (blaue Kacheln)🟦 verziert sind und bunten Häusern kehren wir ein und essen ein traditionelles Gericht welches es eigentlich so nur in Porto gibt. Es heißt Francesinha 🥪
Später spazierten wir über die Brücke Porto Luis und fuhren dann mit der Stadtgondel zu den Portweinlagern 🍷Danach setzten wir uns gemütlich zum Fluss mit einem Eis und schauen uns die Siegerehrung einer Regatta an ⛵🎖️Read more
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- Oct 18, 2023, 12:00pm
- ☁️ 20 °C
- Altitude: 29 m
- Portugal Porto Vila Nova de Gaia Casa do Infante 41.140968, -8.614941°8’27” N 8°36’54” W
Day 35
Porto post the Tour
October 18, 2023 in Portugal ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C
By the time we headed down to breakfast most of the tour group had already departed or was heading to the airport to fly home. We met Mark in the breakfast room and arranged to have lunch with him, as he wasn’t heading home until later in the day and we couldn’t check in to our Airbnb until after 3pm.

As we didn’t have to check out until noon, we headed out to grab a few things and then just finish packing and relaxed. We left our bags at the hotel and met Mark at reception at noon. We once again tried to find Tapabento to have lunch, but were unsuccessful. So, we headed down to the Ribeira area to find a suitable place. We were able to get a table at The RC Restaurante. This is an historical restaurant that has preserved its decoration and architecture from the time of its foundation in 1894. It is also classified as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. It offers traditional Portuguese cuisine.

We had a great lunch. Ian had Hake, Mark had Salmon and I had Dover Sole. We even indulged in a dessert. We then walked back to the hotel, said farewell to Mark and grabbed our luggage for the short walk to our Airbnb.Read more
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