DESTINATIONS PORTUGAL FOOD & DRINK LEFT:


Alfama, Lisbon


SAMPLE PRODUCT


Intrepid Travel’s eight-day


Portugal Real Food Adventure,


featuring Galicia, features a tour of a fish market and cooking class in


Vigo, tasting tour in Porto, Douro Valley day trip, a meal on a farm in the Alentejo, and a day trip to Evora. Departures run from May to October 2018, with land-only prices starting at £1,660, including seven meals, transport (by train, private vehicle, bus and ferry), six nights’ hotel accommodation and a night in a farmstay, and a welcome dinner in Santiago de Compostela. intrepidtravel. com/uk


Urban


Adventures’ Experience Porto’s Bites and Sights is a four-hour city tour starting with coffee and pastel de nata, tasting local dishes including francesinha en


route, and ending with a glass of port wine. From £48.


urbanadventures. com


74 travelweekly.co.uk 14 September 2017


BELOW: Pastéis


de Belem


out in the open, with its landscapes and views, and a destination where interaction between visitors and hospitable locals happens naturally.” Her words ring true during our stay in the city: from iconic eatery Pastéis de Belém, where we try pastel de nata, Portugal’s famous custard tarts, in their birthplace, to Mouraria and Alfama, two of Lisbon’s most multicultural (and poorest) districts. They are also a living, breathing example of the hospitality and cosmopolitan charm Oliveira speaks of, from street art celebrating the districts’ fado and


The tour ends in a banquet of meats and cheeses from the Alentejo region, a great sign-off for the trip


multi-ethnic heritage to ginjinha, a liquor made with cherries and served to us by Tony, a local who pours shots of the drink in his shoebox-sized bar.


w HOME ON THE RANGE From plaintive fado music to pleasant farmstays, our trip ends at Herdade Da Amendoeira, a remote farm specialising in organic produce, where you’re more likely to see a wild rabbit than a passing car. The tour ends in a banquet of meats and cheeses from the Alentejo region, a great sign-off for a trip that has put proper Portuguese produce at the centre of it all. And just like Messrs Magellan and de Gama, I think I will certainly need to make the return trip some time soon.


PICTURE: ANTIGA CONFEITARIA DE BELÉM/TPHOTOS; INTREPID TRAVEL; RONAN O’SHEA; SHUTTERSTOCK


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