Bell towers and Port wine cellars

A great buffet breakfast at the Grand Hotel de Paris' beautiful dining room. Good bread, cold veggie omelet. And apple cake.

Ready for the long winding steps up the Clerigo tower with a great view of Porto from the top. We could see the balconies from our Hotel de Paris! Lots of big bells up there, glad they didn't start ringing while we were climbing past them. Porto has long used this tower on a hill as its city symbol, a real landmark.

Across the river we eenie-meenied a Port-wine cellar, took a tour. There we learned the difference between tawny, white, red and vintage ports. It all tasted good; so we bought a bottle for "Babette"’s cellar.