Portugal Travel Journal

I regret that it took me until later in life to visit Portugal. It is a beautiful country. I hope to return one day. Maybe I already will have by the time you stumble upon this category description. I won’t likely change this description if I do return to Portugal. So, you get what you get.

Apropos of nothing, I think I ate more octopus while I was there than I had in total previously in my life. It’s almost a staple there. And delicious. Please don’t hate me for it, PETA.

This category is a subcategory of “Europe.” There are also subcategories under this category for each city and town I visited while there.

Porto: Douro Cruise and More

Today we took a long cruise up the Douro River. It carried us from Porto to the “village” of Pinão. I’ll explain why “village” is...