Sunday, October 4, 2026

POTD: Cruising the Douro River

From 2025 12 31 Porto, Lamego, Castelo Rodrigo

Today's photo-of-the-day is of the Douro River in Portugal. It's wine country. Full of vineyards. Grapes are harvested, crushed, fermented and transferred to oak casks for shipment down the river to Porto cellars where the wine matures before export to the world. We visited in mid-winter when things are quiet. Even the river seems to be at rest.


"Winter on the Douro.
Vines sleep beneath leaden skies.
Wine dreams in the dark."

— h/t ChatGPT

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