Grand Tour of Portugal 2025
Portugal has been on our list of places to visit for some time. EF Go Ahead Tours offers a Grand Tour of Portugal with and extension to the Azores, so we booked it. We traveled from Vermont to Boston late afternoon on Saturday October 25th. Got to Logan and settled into the lounge waiting on our overnight TAP Air flight to Porto. We arrived in Porto around 9:30 AM local time and caught a taxi to our hotel the Hf Fenix Porto . In order to guarantee an early check-in, we booked and extra night, Saturday night, so our room would be ready and waiting for us when we arrived. We got settled in, napped, showered and met the rest of our travelers in the hotel lobby for a welcome cocktail then a walk to the restaurant, Passatempo , for our Welcome Dinner. The first meal together is always awkward but as we get to know one another, we become a traveling family. Jay and I choose the hake dinner. And two yummy desserts. We also discovered a really good Portuguese Stout, yes a stout i...