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Porto day 2 – A walk through the city

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          In our second day we went for a walk…for like…the whole day. It was cardio day mostly 😅.  But it was a great opportunity for us to see more of this beautiful city.          The first destination was Jardins do Palacio de Cristal. Being autumn, you can imagine we couldn’t find so much of a flowery-green-garden, but for that time of the year, it was still pretty colorful and neat. We had the pleasure to meet a family of peacocks walking freely in the garden 💙. Since the garden climbs up a hill, there are different spots for landscapes of Duoro River and the other side of the city.             To continue our walk, we went then to Farolim de Felgueiras, which is “just” 5km away but it took us “only” one hour. It was a very pleasing experience and we saw many beautiful buildings on our way. Here we admired a 10m-tall lighthouse from 19 th century made out of granite. It situated rig...