Day 6: Porto, Portugal (aka - more wine!)

Intro to the tour
Days 1 & 2 - Traveling to Bordeaux
Day 3 - St. Emilion
Day 4 - Rioja
Days 5 & 6 - Western Spain and Portugal

So after driving through a beautiful national park, we arrived in the city of Porto, Portugal. We really enjoyed our drive into the city - Brian was my personal tour guide! After some toodlin' around, though, I was ready to find our place and start exploring by foot. But we had a pretty hard time finding our B&B! It was a row-house that had no sign, and we had booked so many hotels, I couldn't remember exactly what this one looked like. Oops :) But we finally found it and were thrilled to see it was a really neat, recently renovated building that had really great character. And the owner was so welcoming. We settled in, cleaned up, and started looking over the map to figure out what we wanted to see in lovely Porto!

Our room at the B&B - so beautiful! And I loved the huge windows!

As I mentioned, the B&B owner was so sweet and had all kinds of fun recommendations on where to eat and what to see. She gave us some delicious Port wine as welcome drinks and made a great route for us to follow - so nice!

We had great weather and were so excited to walk around the city.

Porto Castle

First we made our way to the main bridge for a great view of the city to start our tour.

Boats transporting Port wine

Port factories

Then, it was definitely past our lunch time! We were starving, so we grabbed some food down by the river.

Fun restaurants by the water

Cheers! We loved the Portuguese beer, Super Bock

After lunch, it was time to explore!

The plazas and old buildings by the river were so cute.

These awesome old trolleys were all over the city.

We walked up this huge hill for a great view. It was so nice and warm!

We found this cool old bookstore - the inside had tons of intricate wood carvings

When it was getting close to sunset, we decided it was time to sit back and relax. We bought a bottle of port and took the bus to the beach to watch the sun set on a great day in Porto. We tried to take a trolley, but the LAST trolley of the day pulled away as we walked up to it. Oh well, the bus worked!

It was so nice to listen to the ocean

We moved inside to stay out of the wind as the sun got lower

Bri and I had decided to celebrate our anniversary this night (our anniversary was the next day), so he took me to a fancy restaurant called Tribeca that is famous for its live jazz (he knows me so well!). It was a beautiful restaurant with wonderful food. In true BK form, we of course had steaks with pear and goat cheese salad and molten chocolate cake AND sorbet for dessert! Wow, yum.

After a long day of driving, exploring, and a delicious meal, we both agreed that we were exhausted and ready to call it an early night. The waiters and bar tenders looked at us like we were crazy for leaving such a great table so early in the evening, but we didn't even care. We were pooped! Happy Port-iversary, Bri!