Porto Day Trip

Taking a bus to Porto from Lisbon is around 3 hours and costs €15 one way. Anyway, Porto is really a beautiful place, it looks more "local" than Lisbon. We spent the morning walking around the town (it's quite a hilly area) and found some local restaurant for lunch, the pork & potato dish is superb!

Porto town and lunch:

Porto is situated right beside a river that separates it from Vila Nova de Gaia, one of the great tourist attraction here is the bridges that links them. We actually took most of our pictures at the river side and cross the bridge to Gaia.

Great scenery at the bridge:

There's quite a lot of wine caves here, but it doesn't mean the rocky cave that we thought, it's a place where they keep wine to age in barrels. We went for Calem wine tour, the staff explained their history and wine processing methods. Most of the barrels we saw actually do store wine, and we get to test some of their wine at the end of the tour~ nice stuff.

Wine tour in Calem:

Before leaving back to Lisbon, we get ourselves some pastry again for the long bus ride. Seriously, I can just eat their pastry for all 3 meals whole day, it's really nice. Oh ya, the return trip wasn't too bad with movie in the bus, although subtitle is in Portuguese but better than sleeping all 3 hours.

Pastry for the bus ride:

"Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his faithful servants."
-Psalms 116:15-

Thank God for such a beautiful place, it's been a while since I see such a big area of water. Going new places and tasting different dishes are kinda fun actually. Knowing that God has created all these different things, He is so much more greater, Amen.