Wine tourism in 2025: South Africa leads the way for budget conscious travelers

Wine tourism has evolved from a niche luxury experience to an accessible adventure for travelers seeking authentic cultural immersion without breaking…
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Wine tourism in 2025: South Africa leads the way for budget conscious travelers

Wine tourism has evolved from a niche luxury experience to an accessible adventure for travelers seeking authentic cultural imm…
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Porto's day trip to Douro Valley where the river runs deep, the terraces climb high, and every taste is a celebration.

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“Douro River at Pinhão” — The Douro river bends past the town of Pinhão, with hillsides covered by vineyards.

I am going to use this post to give a shout-out to Portugal Green Walks, the company we used to organize our May walk in the Douro Valley hills. (I have no financial relationship with the company — just a pleased customer.) We spent a week in this region, walking on six days between cities in a loop that started and ended in Pinhão, the small town along the river bank near the lower edge of the photo. They could not have come up with a better conclusion to the walk. On the second-to-last day we rounded a hill and soon came upon this spectacular view of the Douro River and Valley…continues: https://gdanmitchell.com/2025/09/11/douro-river-at-pinhao/

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“Orchard and Vineyards” — Lush hill country, filled with vineyards and orchards, between Sabrosa and Alijo, Portugal.

One of the days of our Douro Valley walk in Portugal included a section between Sabrosa and Alijo. Between them we descended into this lovely valley full of vineyards and olive groves. We followed turn-by-turn directions from the walk’s organizers, and because of this I did not always track our precise location. That’s my long way of saying that I think this is the valley of the Rio Pinhão, though I’ve so far been unsuccessful in this spot on maps…continues: https://gdanmitchell.com/2025/09/06/orchard-and-vineyards/

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“Window with Wrought Iron” — Wroght iron casts a shadow below a window in Casals de Loivos, Portugal.

I photographed this window on the morning we departed Casals de Loivos on the final day of our one-week walk in the hills and vineyards of Portugal’s Douro Valley region. We took a brief walk thought this small village before walking the steep trail downhill to Pinhão, where this segment of our trip would end…continues: https://gdanmitchell.com/2025/09/04/window-with-wrought-iron/

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