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Mothman
11-08-2012, 13:20
Just spent a week cruising up the Douro river valley in Portugal followed by a few days in Porto. Thoroughly enjoyed it, though as usual my crap photography failed to do justice to what we saw:lol:

The boat
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Sailed from Porto up river as fas as the border with Spain and then back.
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Went through some fantastic locks with height differences of up to 35 metres
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Porto
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Porto train Station
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julesd68
11-08-2012, 13:37
Just spent a week cruising up the Douro river valley in Portugal followed by a few days in Porto. Thoroughly enjoyed it, though as usual my crap photography failed to do justice to what we saw

Looks awesome - did you get a chance to sample the heavyweight Douro red wines?

Mothman
11-08-2012, 14:40
Looks awesome - did you get a chance to sample the heavyweight Douro red wines?

I most certainly did!
Wall to wall vineyards means that wine & obviously port are extremely reasonable. I remember a particularly good house red that I had in one backstreet restaurant, a wine that I would be quite happy with if it was the only red wine I could drink for the rest of my days. From memory I think the price of a 0.5 litre jug was less than £3 :eek:

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d45/okmothman/Porto%202012/Porto458.jpg

julesd68
12-08-2012, 17:55
From memory I think the price of a 0.5 litre jug was less than £3 :eek:

Yikes that is cheap - I have spent many holidays in Greece but the decent wine isn't at all cheap any more ...

clap
13-08-2012, 21:35
We went to Porto last year and went up the Douro. Highly recommended trip. One of the best European city breaks I've been on.