NY Times Porto Article

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David G.
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NY Times Porto Article

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http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/04/01/tr ... wanted=all

While Finely Aged, Oporto Cultivates a Taste for the New
Michael Barrientos for The New York Times.

MENTION Oporto, and one tends to think of well-fed British gents puffing postprandial cigars as they sip garnet-colored wine and solve the world's problems before rejoining the ladies in the drawing room. But what that word — the name of Portugal's second-largest city — ought to conjure is an almost impossibly picturesque town of Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque buildings cascading down a steep gorge to the banks of the Douro River just before its waters reach the blue Atlantic.

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Nice Article. Thank You David for posting it here. :)

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Not a lot of new information, but I am glad to see more exposure in the NYT for Portugal.
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