Our itinerary was a loop bike ride to Favaios, involving a ton of climbing and more warm weather, and none of us were up for it. After puttering around our hotel in the morning, nine of us took a taxi to Favaios instead (linguistic high point: i ordered the taxi in Portuguese on the telephone)
view from our room of the Duoro in the morning |
superior roof deck location |
the porch where we ate our breakfast wasn't bad either |
inside the grape-processing building |
view along a brick tile roof |
outdoor areas at our hotel |
wall map: Porto and the mouth of the Duoro |
the full wall map |
milling about waiting for our taxi to Favaios |
if these aren't Concord grapes, i don't know what to tell you |
waiting at a train crossing in our taxi |
driving through Pinhão, next stop Favaios |
We walked around Favaios, during which we ate lunch, stopped by a bakery, toured the bread and wine museum, then played games at a cafe until our taxi arrived to pick us up again.
the streets of Favaios |
a fountain in Favaios |
if you lived in Favaios, you would pass this view on your walk to work |
why is this post office gendered? unclear |
reference unit church in Favaios |
tree and buildings near Restaurante Brites, where we had lunch |
they seated us at tables outside (at our request) and brought us food. there was no menu. the vegetarians got more omelets, but the food was good overall. |
Cats of Portugal entry 4: hanging out on a wall near the restaurant |
it's hard to make a really good sierpinski triangle out of cement |
tile wall in Favaios |
turn your old toaster into a new fire truck |
moss on a wall by a field |
Igreja Matriz de São Domingos |
a street in Favaios, approaching the bakery |
Manuela Barriguda bakery, home of the four-cornered bread |
the four-cornered bread (it's not what we expected; it looks like an H) |
tile wall and tile street in Favaios |
outdoor water tap in Favaios |
a building being gut-renovated in Favaios |
our primary reason for going to Favaios was to visit the Bread and Wine museum |
the wine in question is Moscatel, Favaios's method of wine fortification |
trouble with the Bread and Wine Computer |
grain mill at the museum |
flour, not very granular |
flour, much more granular |
harvest equipment, wood edition |
harvest equipment, pointy edition |
a demonstration of how to make an H-shaped bread, sort of |
bellows |
seal of Favaios |
Gina, on the porch of the museum under a sign about how moscatel is a metaphor for the Portuguese character |
mountains and vineyards, seen from the museum porch |
fruit, post-harvest |
persimmons (i think), pre-harvest |
Helen with a glass of moscatel, Scott with a phone |
roofs of Favaios |
Gina, on the museum porch |
Dogs of Portugal is not an album theme, but here is one anyway |
the road into Favaios, seen from the museum porch |
a very reasonable coffee, from Café Moderno |
David, Tom, Joe, and Sarah, playing Just One at Café Moderno |
the bread and wine museum |
Back to Pinhão via taxi (this is the same map as before; i have no reason to think the route changed). We all hung out outdoors by the pool, played some more games, scavenged for fruit, and had dinner at the hotel restaurant. Walking back to our room after dinner, Gina and i saw bats (not pictured, it was dark).
in the taxi, about to leave Favaios |
road back to Pinhão |
a terraced hillside that we would have seen in much more detail had we biked this route |
Gina brought some H-shaped bread back for Emily and Bill |
Helen and Sarah sitting in front of the Duoro |
David and Tom, getting into some sort of trouble |
a round building on top of a hill across the river |
stone wall by an outdoor pool at our hotel |
complementary beer we received with our rooms; it was reasonable |
Joe and David, gathering to play games at an outdoor table |
grapes we picked from the arbor right above the table |
grapes, not yet picked |
candles for shabbat |
alcohol display at the Quinta de la Rosa restaurant |
leek soup |