# Tuesday June 4, 2019 Porto

• Today is no rush Tuesday
• Walk to new old market - old market is under construction so moved to new indoor location
• Stop at pharmacy on the way, forgot my retainer cleaner
• Take a number like at deli counter
• Best I could do is 3-month supply of denture cleaner, at least I think that's what I bought
  

  

• Enter market
• Time for coffee
• Find pastry stand with little tables
• No galao here, Meia de Leite (lituh long i), 1/2 milk, 1/2 coffee
• Coffee without a pastry is sacrilegious so we try Bola de Berlim com creme - donut with custard filling - yummy

  

• Mo stands up meaning he wants to rush on a no rush day
• Shaina drinks her leite faster
• To bus or not to bus, wait, wait, yes bus, wait, don't bus, wait, it's up to us, we bus our table
• Wander around

  

  

• 

• Taste a few - Mo really likes the picante com pickles one, turns out to be mackerel
• Buy various types of sardines and/or mackerel

  

• Pass the pig section with snout, feet, head
• Pass the cow tripe section - Mo can't wait to try some - future restaurant outing

  

  

  

• To pig or not to pig
• We pig - with prosciutto and sausage - good salesman
• Buy cheese to go with the pig
• I hear the guy likes Ernie's beard
• He really says "It' good with beer"
• I'm getting to that age
• Good thing we have the Super Bock and Sagres
• Buy big ugly tomato, big misshapen bell pepper, biggest loquats ever, couple of figs and a chocolate bar to finish off the shopping spree
• Shaina shrieks - water bottle spill in her backpack!
• Rick Steves is slightly drowned
• Shaina's hat very drowned
• Camera survives
• Back home, unload goodies, dry out Shaina, on the move again
• Rick Steves walking tour of Portoooo not Porto
• Walk thru graffiti ally

  

  

• Pass a spooky church
• Enter train station with tile walls of history of Portugal

  

• Would have used WC but they make you pay!
• Walk down main avenue below city hall where all the banking takes place
• McDonald's happens to be there too
• Check it out - supposed to be really cool inside and only Portugal offers soup
• Both true and free WC

  

  

• Lunch outside at Padaria Ribeira - recommended by RS but just ok food
• Someone has to stay on pigeon watch - they attack/dive bomb if you get up or look away

  

  

  

• Continue on no rush Tuesday walk
• Shaina looks at map and points out church
• Looks like a department store to us
• Continue walk and come to Shaina's church
• The other church was a department store
• Pass the university with 30k students (only see maybe 20) - they wear capes like Harry Potter
• Finish upper city no rush tour and head to lower city and to river
• Pass Associacao Commercial do Porto - closed for the day but 9:00 tomorrow morning is first English tour - it's a plan
• Shaina takes us to a park with olive trees over parking garage, to hide it - park is ok, we tell her 'This is nice' (we don't see olive trees or parking garage)
• Walk a little farther and find real park with real olive trees over parking garage, to hide it
• Much nicer than non-olive tree park over fake garage
• We all relax awhile before heading to church/tower

  

  

• We do enter church, too late for noon organ recital (who knew)
• We do not climb the tower (225 steps too many, or we are just lazy)

  

• Porto has many buildings covered in beautiful tiles

  

• There are street performers, gaudy gold covered church, tacky tourist shops on picturesque streets, cat graffiti, cork store (real cork bark is waterproof, the glued particle type - not so much)

  

  

  

  

• Head to the waterfront
• Lots of cops around - big futbol match tonight or tomorrow or soon - Brits vs Portugal
• Very rowdy drinking crowd

  

  

• Walk to bridge over the Duoro River but don't cross

  

  

• Take funicular back up the hill and end up very close to our apartment

  

  

• Pass laundromat - stop in and get very specific instructions on machine usage
• I am now an expert for future use

• 

• Back home to eat food we bought in new/old market

Previous Day | Next Day