Is the sun over the yardarm?

So the river cruise is not quite as planned but we are still having a great time. The food on board is amazing, though I wasn't too keen on the portugese cod dish last night but they made up for it with the portugese egg custard tart.  The staff are fantastic – we have a couple of favourites.

This was the huge dish of paella we had 2 nights ago. Our favourite waitress Lidia.

Yesterday was a bus trip in the morning to a village high up in the hills – again, glad Fangio was a passenger. Followed by a visit to a port winery and tasting on the way back to the ship – the sun was over the yardarm in Australia. The ports were really smooth. The tour of the winery was very informative and he explained why they do only red ports here – it is the altitude and  cooler climate in the hills.

The oldest section of the village in the hills - can't remember it's name but dates back to 1400s.

Not quite a dog - but we watched this farmer and his horse working the vineyards.

Back to the boat where we finally did  bit of cruising, passing through one of the biggest locks in Europe. The sun also came out yesterday and it was great to be able to sit on the sun deck as we sailed along.

Our first lock - one of the biggest in Europe at 32m.

Last night was the crew spectacular – extremely funny and very enjoyable.