• Downtown Porto

    April 7, 2019 in Portugal ⋅ 🌧 11 °C

    Super rainy day so we decided to try a hop on hop off bus for the first time ever. Well the idea is great but in pratice it means a full bus with people standing so you can't see anything, condensation on the windows so again you can't see anything. We had a good laugh and made the decision not to do this ever again. Then we tried to find inside places such as train station (with blue and white tiles) and the Portugese Photographic Center (set in an old prison). For lunch we had a traditional Porto dish called Francesinha made with bread, cured ham, fresh sausage, steak or roast meat, and covered with lots of melted cheese and a hot thick tomato and beer sauce, served with chips (weird and filling!) Portugal seems to be the land of awesome sandwiches.Read more