Thursday 4 October Short nights sleep, lot of traffic noise from 5.30 am Not feeling too well this morning , so we took a while to get going Caught a nearby river taxi across the Duoro (€2 euros each , each way ) walked a long way through an derelict district with many building works going on in hot sunshine All the old style trams which sped by filled to capacity Went on a short enjoyable 50 minute boat trip called the 6 bridges tour , ( one of them built by the same person who went on to construct the Eiffel tower, in exactly the same design) up and down the river,Porto is beautiful from the river .Some children shouted go home at us , waving like mad .I had a lot of sympathy for them, Porto itself seemed rammed to capacity with many coach tours and their leaders. It's very hilly here and as I still wasn't feeling well enough to do a lot of walking , we took a hop on hop off bus tour as a way of seeing the city , big mistake, the traffic was congested, traffic lights halted us every 10 minutes, a 2 hour round trip took 3.5 hours! and Porto does not readily lend itself to a bus tour ,lesson learned ! Home again to an early night in the van