Beautiful weather today for a trip to the hilly city of Porto with Carlos and his Magic Bus. Carlos is on his first Rick Steves tour and it will not be his last. He passed his initiation with flying colors. Carlos can actually make the bus bend in the middle to get around the impossible corners on narrow streets. We said goodbye to Carlos and the bus for this tour.
Our hotel is right on the main pedestrian/shopping street in town. Nice refurbished rooms since the hotel hasn't been doing much business for a couple of years. They did keep the old-timey phones. Here's a shot of an old man trying to figure out how to make a video call.
Busy day today. Lots of hills we haven't climbed yet but we are taking a food tour of Porto so we'll get them all. The food tour guide claims his favorite food city is Chicago. I asked him his favorite Chicago restaurants and he mentioned a hot dog stand and Lou Malnotti's.
Speaking of food, the model has been about her usual hobby taking food pictures when we eat. Here are some samples:
Oops. Sorry for that last one from some catacombs in Coimbra, hope it didn't ruin your appetite.
After our food tour we took a boat ride on the Douro River. I was happy that there were no hills to climb.
Porto is great and we loved it. It felt like Porto is the 'San Francisco' of Portugal and Lisbon is the 'New York'.
More Porto fun tomorrow. Stay tuned.
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