North to Guimarães

As I headed up north to Guimarães, the rains followed me. However, I planned to work most of the trip so that was not a problem. I checked into an apartment in the center of the Old Town with a beautiful view of the monastery turned hotel on the hill that I stayed in years ago on my first trip to this picturesque Unesco World Heritage town. My first morning I headed out to find a café where the locals go. Typically I call these “Old Man Bars”, which is my name for a no-frills place where locals greatly outnumber tourists. The first café I arrived at, while mostly no-frills, looked a little touristy. As I stood considering it, I noticed two old men standing nearby and staring at me. When I looked over at them, they smiled knowingly and pointed across the square to a nondescript café. Hooray! How better to locate a proper Old Man Bar than have two old men point it out to you! <a href="https://tistravels.medium.com/north-to-guimar%C3%A3es-10c50cbcec73">Click Here</a>