Day: May 16, 2019

Final Preparations

Caminho Portugues
On the top of Porto’s Dom Luis I bridge with the port wine houses across the river

At the train station, a tourist draw, the lobby walls are tiled with elegant blue and white scenes of laborers and Crusaders.  Outside the Se a talented violinist serenaded the passing throngs.  Inside we got the first stamp in our credencial before wandering around the cloister, nave sacristy and and treasure room.  The 12th-century cathedral got its start as a Romanesque and Gothic building but is now gilded galore and of course contains walls of blue and white tiles.

Porto’s train station
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