After completing our walk on the Camino, Carrie and I spent a few days in Santiago de Compostela planning the remainder of our 90 days here in Europe. We had spent months planning for the Camino, but we had not scheduled one step of the remainder of our trip, other than we have a flight home from the Lisbon, Portugal airport. We had a vague notion that we would visit some of the prominent tourist sites in Portugal but no real plan. We love this wide open itinerary! Two days before we left Santiago we booked a hotel in Porto and went to the bus station to get our tickets.
On Tuesday morning we were in our hotel in Porto working on the next leg of our trip.
In Porto we sampled some of the delicious local Portuguese dishes, which focus on seafood and pork and wandered around the city center near our hotel. Porto is obviously renowned for its port wines and wineries along the Douro River. Carrie and I met up with some friends and took a small group bus tour along the Douro River and visited a couple of wineries sampling both their still wines and ports. We had a delicious lunch at one of the wineries overlooking rows of grape vines turning gold in the October sun.
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