11 July
We walked the 30 minutes to the waterfront area in search of the small boats the tour the UNESCO warehouse district. We weren’t very interested in the harbor and container port but it couldn’t be avoided. We took the hour tour that was about half in the warehouse district and half in the container port areas. We again saw lots of construction and had a downloaded app to explain some of what we saw. The tide influences when the boats can get in to the canals of the warehouse district and some of the city is very close to being flooded during the big high tides. Some of the old buildings are on wooden piles so during the low tides there is concern for them drying out, or as water levels increase, of getting too saturated. I couldn’t really tell what the story was as my app kept jumping to other locations and details.
After the tour we wandered back along the street where we had seen a bunch of Portuguese restaurants and picked one for a main meal. Shrimp and salad to start and a shared paella with seafood. Half a lobster showed up but it wasn’t very tasty. The other seafood was good though. Anne had wine and I had the house made sangria that reminded me of being in Portugal.
I stopped for a few quick things at a grocery to get some wine and a banana for breakfast. Anne was happy with a bit of cheese and cracker and I bought some predone salads of chickpeas, quinoa, tabbouleh, and other healthy looking stuff. We continued watching the miniseries, Chernobyl.
Tomorrow is another travel day – time to go to The Hague in The Netherlands.
