Porto

We decided to head north for the Christmas break. 

Two hundred miles north. 

To Porto.

Porto is the second largest city in Portugal, one of the oldest in Europe. There are so many amazing and fantastic things to see in Porto.

We spent two days walking up and down and all around the city and we had a wonderful time. 

We stayed in a cute little place in the middle of old town. Bolhão Apartments.

The main train station are usually not a tourist attraction but the one in Porto is an exception. The walls of the Porto Sao Bento train station are decorated with approximately 20,000 azulejo tiles, dating back to 1905, all of which form beautiful murals on 3 sides of the building's walls. 

This is truly a town of churches - many, many churches!

 Livraria Lello is no ordinary bookstore. Despite it being one of the oldest bookstores in Portugal, it is also the bookstore that inspired Harry Potter’s author JK Rowling to visualize and create the Harry Potter’s library in Hogwarts. 

And...Who knew?!

And, yes, we did eat there.😋

But we also ate here.

The city was all decked out for Christmas.

So much stuff to see!

We were back home again on Christmas Day, had dinner with Kay and Larry, and, of course, the best part of all - loved talking with the children and grandchildren!!