If you intend to spend summer vacation in the place where the sun will be every day of your stay to caress you - you need to rush in the port! If you appreciate a good kitchen and amazing wine - you need to rush in the port! If you want to plunge into hot waves and then look like droplets, roll out from your body, immediately evaporate from touching with the same hot sand - you definitely need to rush in the port! :)
On the day of our arrival, the hotel organized a tour of the vineyards, where he grows exactly the grapes, which then turns into caring hands of masters and under the influence of special barrels in the Porto Divine Wine.
The most important wine of this corner is Wine "Vinho Do Porto Tawny". It is kept in walnut barrels of 8-12 years old, giving the opportunity to satisfy the aroma of this noble tree itself ... Before pouring this nectar in the bottle, it is carefully filtered off. It is precisely this wine that most locals here begin and finish their day. Wine is served to each dish! The only difference is that in the evening you will bring Porto in pure form, and in the morning - diluted with purest mineral water and with several droplets of lemon or orange juice. But personally, the roast sun allowed me to make a couple of wine throes only for dinner. In restaurants, bars, cafe you will definitely offer very sharp seasonings to any dish chosen! I really came to taste the prunes of the starved in wine and filled with stolen nuts. And the pieces of lamb, baked together with young potatoes were the top of perfection!
In the port, I not only enjoyed local cuisine - even tear away from delicious meat, crabs, royal shrimps, all kinds of salads and mandarin was not easy - I managed to visit the most magical place for the reader and just a carving amateur - Livraria Lello bookstore, located on R. Street DAS CARMELITAS 144. This place is difficult to call the store - this is a fairy tale! The first impression was that it is here that the magic steps in the sky are here! But when I climbed along these steps to the upper tier - the top view was even more fascinating ... the real kingdom of the book ...
You can even get to the beach without asking the roads - on the fresh breeze from the sea is easy to navigate, Kuna should be headed to wash off alone impressions and get others :) I got into such an interesting place called the beach for tourists - this is the beach located Next to the sunken ship. And you can not only sunbathe and squeeze into the sea, and go on a tour of the "reversal" :) The hot spring is compensated here by the proximity of open water - the breeze from the sea helps to move the heat. But on the beach of local residents is not heard - only our compatriots and a huge number of elderly couples of their Germany ...
Of the useful information, as the relay, I transmit that on the arrival in the port you have to buy at the hotel or in the first eye on the eye (at the airport or at the station - you will definitely see) something like a voucher for tourists - "Card Porto". It is inexpensive, and in most museums, on the beaches, in public transport and even in a taxi you will receive a discount of 10-15%. That's what is more surprising here, so it's a "lung subway" that we would have called just tram :) This is such a beautiful trailer, in both ends of which the driver's cabins are located. This tram does not unfold, only one way goes. To change the direction of movement, the driver simply goes to the other end of the carriage ...
In the port I want to return because the feeling is left as if I have not seen something. The feeling that two weeks is too little time to implane the smell of "Porto" and get drunk by the beaches ...