Touring Guimaraes and Ponte Lima

Monday, October 12, 2015
Guimarães, Braga, Portugal
We were up early and at breakfast at 9:00 and enjoyed cheese, cold cuts, fruit salad, several kinds of bread and white crusty buns, homemade jams, and an excellent almond cake the Juliana, Arthur's wife, made....great coffee and yogurt to Our! We met the other guests briefly....Erik and Cristina from Denmark and Steffan and Bettina from Dresden .....then we were off ti Guimaraes....it is sunny and warm and it's a lovely little town with many squares and cute shops and restaurants... Walter had his hair trimmed at a barber shop and I found some lovely Portuguese olive oil soap for Kara and a white embroidered table runner for me. We planned to have a bite to eat at an inner garden cafe called Cor de Tangerine but it was closed as it was Monday... It's a very picturesque little town ....we left in early afternoon for Ponte de Lima which has an old Roman bridge crossing the Lima River and of course a medieval cobblestones old town. We found a very good sweet shop to have a coffee and pastry and enjoyed the sunshine.
We arrived back at Quinte Cancela about 4:30 and retrieved our house wine from the fridge and sat outside on the pretty balcony of the old house with Erik and Cristina....very nice couple...Steffan later joined us for more wine and applies and the Steffan and Bettina joined us for Arthur's Table d'hote of Cod and shredded potatoe, garlic and parsley casserole, fresh from the garden tomato and cucumbers ....to begin with....Sardines in tomato sauce appie..we had a cousin's local white Vino Verdi and then the house red plus a special wine/ grappa .....what nice people and what a nice night.. We also were introduced to Arthur's 6 month old daughter Henriquetta....very sweet baby. Late night as we didn't get to bed until insight....the cellar room is very nice but it has a really hard bed...like sleeping on the box spring only.

Recommended restaurants: Cor De Tangerine: restaurant with garden, jazz and art
Historical/ Papboa, weekday luncb menu is good value
Solar do Arco,
Cervejaria Martins,
Adega Coquinhos
Pastelaria Ciarinha

Also recommended by Erik:Parque National do Alvao
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