I really like Port...a lot

Porto is beautiful. The city is coated in luscious architecture in various states of disintegration and granduer and home to dozens of port distelleries. I spent the day (ok, the afternoon, morning having come too soon after a night of heavy drinking) wandering around the city and tasting port. Have I mentioned that I really like port? The douro river meanders by the tasting rooms making for a truly lovely afternoon. This evening I went out to dinner with a few folks from the hostel, including a guy from Brazil. If I have learned one thing from travelling it is "let the guy who speaks the language order". We had an amazing meal, starting with some strange, but incredible tasting, soup of black beans, corn meal and god knows what parts of a little piggy and bacalhao, portugese salted cod, a local delicacy. Add in a bottle on vinho verde (Portugese green wine) and some carmelly pudding and it was amazing, all for 10 euro. Have I mentioned that Portugal is cheap as well as beautiful. Full and happy we returned to play cards and drink 1 euro bottles of wine....and more port. Have I mentioned that I really like port.