Hey guys!
Last week I’ve
been to Rome, so I have another trip to tell you about beside all the others! I
didn’t know which trip I should tell you about first, but my friend wanted to
hear about Porto, so I decided for that.
So I was in
Porto in august last year when I stayed at my cousin, who lives there, for 3
days. She didn’t have to work, so on the first day, we were only at the beach
and in the second day, she took my so a sightseeing trip.
We started
in the train station of Sao Bento, which is totally beautiful! The entrance
hall’s wall are made of painted ceramic tile that show scenes of the History of
Portugal.
From there
we went the Rua das Flores down.
I love walking along little streets, they’re
so beautiful with their little houses and balconies full of flowers. We passed
by the Palacia das Artes, and then along the Rua Mouzinho da Silveira. We
stopped at the Infante Dom Henrique Square in front of the Palacia da Bolsa,
where sometimes Travel Trade Show take place. We didn’t go inside but from the
pictures I found in the internet, it’s really pretty inside.
We were
getting hungry so we decided to go over the Dom Luis I Bridge to Vila Nova de
Gaia. It’s actually a city, but a lot of people think it belongs to Porto. We
sat outside of a little restaurant next to river and ate a sandwich before continuing
our promenade along the riverbank.
We stopped in a little street market and
went inside of the Ferreira Port Wine cellar to have Wine Testing but there
were sooo many people that we decided we’d rather go shopping.
So we went
back to Porto (over the same bridge we had come) and went these terrible stairs
up (I nearly diiiiiied). Passing by the Terreiro da Sé, a cathedral and the
city’s oldest monument, the Train Station of Sao Bento, the church of Santo
Illdefonso.
And then we finally reached Rua Santa Catarina, the shopping
street. After shopping for a looooot of time, we went to a bus station and back
home.
In the
evening, we went to a mexican restaurant and a bar later.
The next
day my cousin had night shift, so she slept till 2pm, and we walked a bit
around her neighborhood. At the afternoon the sister of her boyfriend visited
us and took me back home.
I can
totally recommend going to Porto! It such a beautiful city with a lot of churches
and houses with the typical Portuguese white/blue painted ceramic tiles. We can
have look on our route on Google Maps if you want ;)
