Day 4 Sintra to Porto

Today we left our fabulous hotel in Sintra. Forgot to say that I had a particular difficulty with the door handles at the hotel. Lets just say...I got locked in a bathroom for a few minutes and had a minor panic attack until I figured it out. Notice there is no "door knob". I did not have the key Jim is holding in his hand.

We traveled ~3hour drive from Sintra to Porto via private car. On the way...we stopped at Batalha Monastery. This is the monastery of Santa Maria da Vitoria commissioned by King Joao I on 8/14/1385 with construction starting ~1386.

We arrived in Porto and embarked on a Tuk Tuk trip around the city. We decided to walk to the pick up point as it was supposed to be ~1 mile. The worst part of the supposed 11 minute walk was that it was nearly all straight up hill and it actually was more like 20+ minutes! My left calf is now screaming at me! This was our meeting place at the Clergio tower.

We are standing above the town of Gaia on the left with Porto on the right.

This is actually 2 churches with a "house" in between. Legally, 2 churches could not be next to each other as one was a nunnery and the other a monastery, so they built the 2nd smallest house in the world between. You can see the front door in green with 2 windows above.

To the "boat, Emerald Waterways "Radiance".