Tuesday was our first day moving from the hotel in Lisbon to our accomodations in Porto for 6 nights. After we left Lisbon it was a 2 and a half hour drive to a small town known as Coimbra. Coimbra was once the capital of an emerging Portuguese kingdom and has rock walls circling around it. We went shopping there and some people climbed up the rock wall but I didn't since we were warned that it may be slippery and I'm already afraid of heights on top of it.
After leaving Coimbra we arrived in Porto and went to Calem, a wine making company here in Porto. We took a tour of the building and were told all about the huge casks of wine that they still stored there to this day. It was amazing how long they stored some of the wines, all the way up to 90 years and over. After the tour we all sat down at a table and did some wine tasting. We were given one glass of white wine and one glass of red wine. However, I really strongly dislike wine and ended up giving mine away. The prices there weren't bad at all and many people purchased the wines to bring back as gifts.
Outside we saw the boats that used to carry the wine to other places and got an amazing view of the city of Porto and the water.
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