Pictures from Porto

I promised some pictures from Porto and and I am finally getting them to you.  I am currently in Barcelona (with free wifi in the hotel - yippee) and just in from an evening tour with a company called Barcelona Taste - yes food and drink was involved - more on that in the next post but first some photos from Porto...

Porto City Hall - pretty impressive eh...

I climbed that hill - several times - my hotels all seem to be up...

this is the start of the Douro River which runs through Porto

the Atlantic ocean just up the road from downtown Porto about an hours walk or so

 note the tile work on the church - Portugal is proud of its history of covering their buildings with tiles

Porto is all on a hill...

Regardless of the hills I quite enjoyed Porto - it has a different feel than Lisbon - I am told that the north is the true Portugal and I am very glad I made it to Porto.  From Porto I caught the train back to Lisbon - really easy and relatively inexpensive - $24 euros.  The train was full - mostly with business people - most had on suits and not much in the way of luggage.  Off to Barcelona...