Effing Stairs

Today we woke up and went to get some pastries! Portuguese pastries are quite good and very cheap! We were buying things that were 50 cents that in France would have been 3 euro! Then we went to buy groceries. We filled a bag completely full of cheap wine, port and olive oil. While Portugal may be cheap, some questions about quality are brought to mind. Our jam that we bought was completely disgusting…oh well

Later, we met up with the Germans on Point de Luis. This is a giant epic bridge that kind of looks like a sideways Eiffel tower; that could be because it was designed by one of Mr. Eiffel’s cohorts.

We walked to the Port manufacturers! There are 14 just sitting on the hill across the river. We went to the tourist information to find out which ones had free tastings. One was called Taylor’s…so of course that’s the one we had to go to! After learning much about port production we got to taste the port. And the result is….drum roll….I don’t like port. It’s too sweet.

I honestly never thought that that would be a problem for me, but it just tastes like cough syrup. I even had a tiny sip of the 40 year old port that’s 180 euro a bottle! Still, no thank you. I’ll stick to wine.

After a nice lunch we all went our own way. Taylor and I got some ice cream and did a little shopping. Yay for girl time!

The Germans came over for dinner. We had salad, pasta, and rolls. It was a fantastic meal, minus the fact that we had 3 forks for 7 people. Let’s just say that eating salad with a spoon is quite challenging.