Showing posts with label douro. Show all posts
Showing posts with label douro. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 22, 2022

Douro Valley

 Another day trip from Porto to the Douro Valley, where port wine comes from. The bridges of RĂ©gua were stunning.


I loved the scenery, as usual.



And mostly we might have gone to vineyards for tours and port tasting. I learned a LOT about port, and soon forgot most of it, so I'll just share one thing with you that I learned: The vineyards let spiderwebs accumulate on the barrels because the spiders take care of the mosquitoes.


I didn't manage to drink much of these, but they were all tasty.


Oh, and we got to take an hour-long cruise on the river, even!


It's supposedly routinely over 100 degrees F here in the summer, so I'm glad to have visited in the winter and for this spectacular vista.