Tomar and the Templar Castle
We got up early for breakfast and on the bus 8am for 2 hours to Tomar, the seat of the former Order of the Knights Templar in the 12th Century. They build the Convent de Cristo, a beautiful fortress and Church.
Porto
This was day 7 of our tour, having arrived by train yesterday from Coimbra. We met the group in the morning to walk to the Dom Luis I Bridge. It was a nice, cool sunny day and then walked down to the dock on the Douro river where we boarded a small boat to cruise beneath 5 bridges. After the boat tour we walked to the Funicular (4 Euros) and to the top and a short walk to the hotel for a rest. Funicular Burmester Port Cellars Met the group to walk to dinner, down the old staircase to the river and across the bridge on the lower deck to tour the Burmester Port cellars and a port tasting afterwards - light, tawney and ruby ports all were great. Then it was off to our final dinner with the group at Barris do Douro in the Vila Nova de Gaia area on the south bank of the Douro. Rained while we ate dinner and then took a taxi back to the hotel.
