Last day in Porto

Another day spent walking!  We walked over the river - on a bridge - to have a bit of a mosey round a department store.  Dad was looking for a charger for his Garmin watch which was left behind in the UK.  No success so we wandered off to the Port factories down on that side of the river.  The grapes for the port were brought down from the Douro Valley to this port where they were made into Port.  There were heaps of these port wine lodges to visit where you could take a tour and have a couple of tastings so we visited a small one and bought a small and cheap bottle. 

we went back across the river for lunch which was in this little back street and was very home made and delicious.

These are some remnants of the photos I took. When I was walking about it was a bit of a shock to see how delapidated the place was and yet  there were also some magnicent sights.

this was the inside of the main station.  There are a lot of these scenes on walls of public buildings depicting wars and conquests.

I was walking down this street in town and it was a mess with every second building empty and the others being renovated.  The footpath which was cobbled was all loose too. 

This was a huge building site which has been abondoned and doesn’t look as is anything is going to happen to it. 

And opposite it was this one. 

And another blue church

Sorry I have put this in twice and don’t know how to get rid of it!   here I was on my way to meet Dad  at the cheap taberna after I had done part of the Camino walk- it starts in Porto too! I am not sure where it doesn’t start.