we have a very close friends living there so is natural for us that we want to visit them and spend time together in a beautiful surrounding.

my family really love to travel and enjoying new (old) places but without milion other people around. so we always choose to go on holidays durning the months where there aren’t tons of tourists. 

in portugal summer break starts in july and ends on september 15th. because of that june and second half of september are the best time to travel there!

this year we chose september. the new thing for us was that we went there without our kids.
we had much more time for ourselves and for visit other places not only beaches. (a&a love to play all day long on the beach!).

we rent a car and took a road trip all the way from lisbon to porto, stopping half way at friends house in praia da vieira
last year our family visited all the little places on the coast from lisbon to leiria and this year we wanted to explore all the villages and cities by the ocean up in direction to porto!

today i would love to share with you all the photos we took in porto.

porto is the second larges city in portugal and for sure one of the oldes not only there but also in whole europe! and its historical core was proclaimed a world heritage site by UNESCO in 1996.
perhaps the city itself is not the pretties (we prefer lisbon much better) but it has its charm especially ribeira district alongside the douro river.
the views there were beautiful with romantic narrow streets although on the buildings you can see marks of history.
it was fun to explore porto but we do not need to go back there again. once was enough!

here are our photos 🙂