First impression and first stop at a cafe in Afurada/Gaia/Portoour way to reach the bridge to cross, which you still can’t seetypical tiled housessome Rabeloswell, no explanation neededI just like’m now🤷♀️In Portugal they seem to have washhouses which are still used!a typical street frontThe town hall atAvenida dos Aliadoswherethe paradesandwagonsperformedCan’t remeber the nameof that placeat the Porto bankfacadesour bridge walkthe party in Afuradaalso with parades and costumes
São João
First stop to have a Super Bockstill beingat the Gaia sideof the Riverparty started alreadya view of Porto from elevated Gaiaa huge bbq something or is it wood?now at Portowith Jörg and Steffistrawlingthrough crowdNorbert found a little “empty” spot to breath for a second and watch us pounding 🔨Somewhere in the alleysSteffi taking picsa grandma enjoying the festivalalready quite high, still sober 😉bbq everywhereandthe ballonsthe Douro riverin the background the cathedralview of Gaiaand a church on our way to find a viewing spota pic from the bridge of porto’s promenadeA medleyofpicsofPorto, very typical as well, lots of building cranesthat was taken from the upper level of the D. Luis bridgethe Douro by nightsomewhere in Portome walking very dynamicallyagain a church 😉a cellar at the churchill port wine tastingthat is an ancient fire alarm sirene, every district has a number of sounds. E.G the district Bomfim had three sounds, so the peolpe new where to help, quite geniusevery town has it’s own 😉…tiles…the “Lions place”the street when it’s not party timenot my favorite stairs to useguess what …El Capitano by night or rather sunsetthe sometimes morbidly looking facades…King, Sir ?his time a view up the riverjust nice 🙂some picsfromthe upper levelof the bridgecreative facadeand tilescooter knots arton the way back you can see another bridge ” Pont d’Arrábida”, not a pedestrian oneto the marina,under the just mentioned bridge, the view of the estuarya festivalmercadowith impressive musicianshaving a rest and enjoying really good coffee, still need to improve my selfie skills…El Capitano with his little broom in Harry Potter townIglesia…Two churches built next to each other, the left one was finished 1628 with a very simple facade, the right one was created 140 years later with a totally playful late Baroque facade. I don’t quite recall the whole story, but as it was at those ancient times not allowed to have two churches directly next to each other. The law said if there are houses or at least one house in between it was ok, so the officiating priest squeezed a house between the churches and to proof that it is a house he even lived there for 20 years!and in between that narrow house! That is all maybe 2 meters width- unbelievablethe newer church side with tile artand a closer lookstreet decorationin very different waysthe famous tram número umup the stairsto visitthe parcatPalácio de Cristalaccommodating peafdowlsstreet artwall eyesthe typical roof top viewa fairly new public laundry housewhich is used a lot by local womenI never would have thought those laundry houses would still exist in western europe and definitively not in usea beautiful shopnext to the famous ” Harry Potter” bookstorea yammi flower icecream
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