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Tuesday, April 29, 2003, 10:30 UTC (8:30 am local)

Report from Porto, Portugal, by Karl Hipp

We spent yesterday and today with a private guide we hired, a Portuguese guy named Fernando.

Fernando drove us all over Porto yesterday, and up the Duoro river valley through the wine country today.  We visited several wineries, and sampled many wines and Ports.

 

Near Porto, typical rocky ground

 

17th Century bridge over the Duoro river

 

Duoro river

 

Another view of the Duoro river

 

Duoro river valley, where the grapes for Port wine are grown

 

Terraced vineyard plantings along the Duoro river valley

 

Karl, Judy, John, Barb at a winery manor house

 

A curious goat on the winery grounds

 

Cork trees on winery grounds

 

Cork hopper at the winery

 

John checking out the cork delivery system

 

Wine boxing operation

 

Wine tasting, with our guide, Fernando, on the left

 

Judy and John purchasing Port wine

 

This is expensive stuff!

About $13 for two bottles in a wooden box

 

Dinner at the Hotel Infante de Sagres

 

The weather doesn't look good for the planned flight to France tomorrow.  We may go along the coast to avoid possible ice at the MEA of FL110 across the mountains.  La Rochelle in France is predicting thunderstorms.  Options John and I discussed this evening were:

            1.  Stay here another day.

            2.  Go to the south of France.

            3.  Delay till midday to see if the weather improves.

            4.  Refuel at San Sebastian, then fly east of Paris to Amsterdam.

We will check weather in the morning.

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