The holidays took over and I realized I didn’t share the rest of my honeymoon with you! I really, really loved Porto, as I knew I would, and am excited to show you some of my favorite things about our time there. First up the PORT! We had port every day we were there. We did a tasting early on at one of the markets which turned out to be even more exciting than we could have planned. As we sat there we witnessed a group of film students running through the narrow aisles making a film and soon after a band of musicians lively playing their songs. It was great to see how excited even the merchants were as the band played. They even joined in on the port tasting when they were done playing.
The next day we did a tasting at one of the port makers and a tour of the caves in the evening-followed by another tasting-like I said lots of port. The following day we went to Kopke and tried a 1983 vintage tawny port (shown above). We had a very philosophical conversation about drinking something older than the both of us and then slowly sipped it until it was gone.


We stayed one night in a room with the view above which was quite nice. The morning we checked out we were blessed with the most beautiful rainbow over the river. But when we checked into the place we were staying right on the river I was blown away! We had the best view of everything! It was perfect for people watching, river watching, boat watching, bridge watching, bird watching, everything watching! We joked that we felt like a king and a queen being up on that balcony because everyone walking by was looking up at and taking pictures of the historic buildings we were staying in. With the sun shining on our faces I could have stayed there all day (which we did a lot of but not all day).




We happened to be in the city during Halloween which I figured we wouldn’t be celebrating but when we were on
the other side of the river port tasting we ran across what looked to be Halloween decorations. We wandered in and were told they were indeed hosting a party later on that night. They don’t really celebrate the holiday but they do like to have parties so why not! My thoughts exactly. We didn’t come prepared to dress up so I wore my black top and black pants, put my black eye makeup on to look old and a bit scary, wrapped my scarf around my head and grabbed an apple and poof I was the witch from sleeping beauty or something like that. Not bad. I felt a bit silly walking back over across the river since, like I mentioned, they don’t really celebrate Halloween. The only people I saw dressed up were at the party. The party was slow to get started but eventually it started to fill up and so did the dance floor. We showed off our amazing dance skills before calling it a night.




On our last day we took a walk up to a high point in the city to some beautiful gardens. I was pretty tired by the time we made it up there but I did end up having a nice walk around. Also it was a very nice and warm day-look at all that sun! Eventually we made our way back for some lunch and took a bit of a rest.


On our last night there I insisted we head back to the other side of the river to get some chestnuts. We had them one night and I thought they were the best thing ever! The perfect amount of salty and sweet. I wish I had a bag of them right now. Once we were back in the room and all packed for the next day we just sat on the balcony and tried to soak it all up. I think it worked because if I close my eyes right now I can imagine it perfectly.