Day 10: Porto

We docked back in Porto last evening. Porto is situated at the mouth of the Douro River and is famous for its exports of port wines. We opted for a visit to Quinta do Aveleda located in Penafiel. The estate has been in the same family for 5 generations roughly 300 years built by Manoel Pedro Guedes in the 16th century. This is the main house on the estate.

The gardens are beautiful with details with lots of ducks, goats, peacocks and more. 

This is a picture of a Eucalyptus tree that is 300 years old. The picture was taken in 1913 and the tree was already 100 years old. 

I had to take 2 pictures to get the whole tree in the picture. The guide said it takes 6 people to wrap their arms around it.

The winery was established in 1870.  They produce port wine and brandy and are the largest port wine producer in the area. They produce the "green' or verde wine. They have 300 barrels of brandy aging for about 30 years, the date on the barrels show established in 1671. 

We did a bus tour of Porto which was slightly different than the TukTuk we did on our first day in Porto. We visited the train station that was built on the former site of the Benedictine Convent of São Bento da Avé Maria. It has important scenes from Portugal's history with azulejo painted tiles.

When we arrived back at the boat we had the results of our Covid-19 tests. It was in Portuguese, but since they didn't have yellow tape across our door and ban us from the boat...I figured it was negative.  We got Jim's ceramic tile back. His was very different than anyone else...not surprising

We had one more trivia game to play and it was facts of the Douro River. Our team won of course! We all got a porcelain rooster as a prize. Jim couldn't pass up a piano so he decided to entertain us for a couple of tunes. 

Well, it is off to bed for a 1:45am wake up call to start our journey home tomorrow.