Best Bike Tour in Porto, Portugal

If you’re looking for the best way to get to know Porto you’re going to first need to cross the bridge over to Gaia where you’ll find a cute little Bike Shop with a wonderful man named Antonio who gives electric bike tours of the city on the day I went I was lucky

Enough to be the only one who signed up which meant I got to have a private tour with a local who’s lived here more than half his life Anton will show you the famous sites like The Bishop’s Palace and the train station with its 20,000 painted tiles but he’ll also take you to

Places like this house whose owner loved the local football team so much he turned his home into a kind of shrine he’ll tell you how the smallest house in Portugal was between these two churches how the trees in this park used to look normal until they got a fungus and

Turned into Dr Seuss characters that everyone loves so much they decided to keep he’ll explain how this statue depicts the contagious nature of laughter and then you’ll both laugh proving the artist Point spending the day with Antonio you’ll see and learn more about quto than you ever could have on your own but

Mostly you’ll see how generous it can be when someone shares their love of a place with you and how lucky you are to be anywhere at all