Monday, September 3, 2012

Oporto, Portugal

 
 
 
 
After we went to London this summer, we went back to Belgium and checked out of our lease and said goodbye to our home of 4 years.  Then...it was off to Oporto, Portugal!  It was beautiful.  If given the opportunity I would get on a plane and go back right now.  We loved it.

The path we took from our hotel to the Douro
River.

We took a boat ride to get a lay of the land.






Those tiny little people by the door are the twins standing in front of the Bell Tower.


That white building is the bookstore where JK Rowling wrote parts of Harry Potter.



The bookstore at street level.

The staircase inside spired JK Rowling to write about the interior of Hogwarts.



It was hot in Porto but the ice cream was cold.


Many interior and exterior walls were entirely tiled.



We walked across the very top of this bridge.

We visited many port wine caves.



We bought a few bottles and tested every variety!


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