Serralves... Meia de Leite (almost a Cappucino)

I never miss a chance to visit Serralves, the Portuguese Museum of Modern Art in Porto. If don't like the art, or find it too difficult to digest... This was the floor in one of the rooms... I found it disturbing, I could look at it for hours...

But the best seat in the room was taken...


You can always go to any of the three cafeterias in the compound, good coffee, quality savories... Fantastic...
The top restaurant has a reasonable buffet and a great view over the park, the lower floor level cafeteria has a great window facing the grass, very Zen... but probably the top is the Tee House, so 1920's-1930's a Tee house in front of the gravel Tennis court... The perfect place to read the newspaper weekend edition, if you're watching the rain from the inside... very peaceful... Love it!

In Portugal you can have a "meia de leite", litteraly "half milk" the equivalent in the Netherlands would be half of a "Koffie Verkeerd", I've had some Latte's and Machiattos in my day, but there's nothing like a Meia-de-leite. If you want to try it is a long expresso with the same amount of vapor heated milk, it should look like this..

Porto Free Wi-Fi...

During this Christmas and New Year's break I went back to Oporto, my home town. I needed to keep connected to the internet in a quasi-regular mode. I found some free-WiFi hotspots that I can recommend, they are located mostly in the city center close to the old universities.
Here is a list of caffees and places were Free Wi-Fi is available:

• Café Progresso
• Plano B
• Centro Comercial Parque Nascente
• Café Aviz (ask for the password at the counter)
• Café Ceuta (ask for the password at the counter)
• Café Praia do Titan
• Contagiarte

I know for sure that there are many more, if you read this and know of one, please tell me and give me a link(google-location or website) and I'll update the list.
Another thing when it rains in Porto it really RAINS, beware...