Wow, what a city! It is right out of a postcard - so beautiful. The city centre is located on a hill overlooking the Rio Douro River, which is off the Atlantic ocean. This city is full of coloured buildings on the hillside overlooking the river with trams along the ocean. It is a must see location.

Turns out that Porto (and all of Portugal) in the past four to five years has increased its tourism exponentially. Porto won the European Best Destination award in 2012, 2014 and 2017. It is booming right now.

We rented a car (this was an adventure in its self) and drove it from theAlgarves to Porto. The car was manual transmission and boy was it entertaining for both of us trying to drive it. There were some good laughs when we stalled it in the middle of traffic circles, hit curbs and the l ist goes on. According to Google Map it was going to take us 4 hours and 33 minutes to get to Porto, it took us over 6 hours. Too many, this might sound terrible but for us to make it in 6 hours is a miracle. Jada as a baby was horrible in the car and to be honest, she still is, however, we now have a very special gadget called an IPAD - it is a life saver. Cruz, like his sister, is horrible as well. I am talking crying so hard in cars where foam comes out of his mouth and his head and back are drenched in sweat from crying so hard.