Day 34
Left Santiago de Compestela at 10am and headed to the train station.
Off to Vigo on the train. Vigo is a little port. Pretty, but the help was unbelievable. We were trying to get a map to decide whether to stay or not and the woman just said, ºspeaka no english!ª I mean, this was the woman at the Tourist Centre. Just got the feeling we should be heading to Portugal as soon as we could. The hostility was just getting to me.
From Vigo, we decided weºd go to Porto, in Portugal or at least see if we could get there! The unfriendly woman in Vigo told us we had to go to the bus station to get there, so off we went...backpacks on board, and walked 3kmºs to the bus station!
We were lucky enough to get tickets to Porto!
And the journey there was SO pretty. Lots of houses in the country, with no fences dividing them, and lots of vineyards and just so green and pretty. I could feel myself thawing already. Out of the city. And near water. Isnºt it funny, when youºre not around water for a while you start to crave it. And i was certainly craving it....river, ocean, creek...i dinºt care...just something!
AND PORTO WAS IT! FINALLY IN PORTUGAL!
The blissful place we were destined to be for Easter.
About Porto!
The metro is above ground because itºs built on solid rock. It has a fantasic bridge which looks like the Sydney harbour bridge! The first sight we saw when entering porto the bridge.
Itºs a port town, that produces Porto wine. We went on a history of Port Wine tour and went on some port wine tastings as well. One of them was the Callem wine. So interesting to see the process in action. They produce 3 types of port - Ruby, Tawny and white port wine.
We also went to the Sandeman Porto wine tour as well which had a video explaining the process further. Apparently the fermentation process is halted and brandy is added to kill the yeast and retain the sugar which all porto wine has at 20% and it makes it sweeter. Very nice!
Porto also has washing hanging out of all the windows making it quite a landmark. We took a pic of this nude woman outside one of the villas...which, hey..we might reproduce on our balcony when we get back!!! haha!
NB Shower went full pelt here! We canºt win i tell you...regarding the showers!! Flooded bathroom!
