Phil was still not feeling well at breakfast so he decided to stay at the hotel this morning.
Tarina and I enjoyed a panoramic tour of Porto. The first part of the tour was with a driver and guide, exploring some of the further away sites, including the beachfront at the mouth of the Douro River. The second part of the tour was on foot. Porto is amazingly compact and easy to get from site to site. We saw the Sé do Porto, the Torre dos Clérigos and the azulejo-tiled São Bento Train Station. For the final part of the tour we got back in the car and went over the bridge to Vila Nova De Gaia where all the Port wine warehouses are located. I hadn’t appreciated that Porto and Gaia were two completely different cities separated by the river. Looking at them you’d assume they were one city. The tour ended back at the hotel.
We collected Phil and wondered down to the riverside (Cais da Ribeira) for lunch. We found a cute little Portuguese-Asian fusion restaurant and enjoyed salt cod bao buns and other tapas….mmmm. Phil was feeling much better. After lunch we strolled up to show Phil the São Bento Train Station then went back to the hotel for a rest.
In the evening, we had a lovely meal at Yakuza.