Lubertadventure: Porto Portugal

So here is a tip for all you fellow travellers and sight-seers. Think long and hard about what kind of tours you spend your hard-earned Euros, or Pounds, or Kuna, on. Bring your own headsets, the kind you use on the airplane, and ask to see the handouts you are given on the tour. You are pretty safe to take the “Yellow Bus” or “Red Bus” sightseeing tours if you already know that there are some well-known sites to see.
In Rome, you will look forward to seeing the Coliseum, the Trevi Fountain, the Spanish steps. Paris won't surprise you when the tour goes by the Eiffel Tower or Notre Dame, and yes, you may get to explore some interesting, lesser-known areas in some other cities BUT! We did not know what to look for in Porto, Portugal, so we thought it was a good idea to do the “Hop-on, Hop-off Blue Bus” which also came with a river cruise and a tour of a Port winery. Considering my back was still in spasm, we deemed it the better part of valour to take it a bit easy and be chauffered around to see the sights.
There was no key to deciphering the “map” we were given, the headsets kept falling out, we had to turn up the volume to maximum to hear what was being said, and then it was so distorted we couldn't tell what was being said. I could have sworn at one point it said, “I can't GET NO, satisfaction”. There were also no real reference points – I am sure the recorded voice was not telling us that the McDonald's to our left is the Cardinal's Chapel.
The river cruise was relaxing, again not particularly interesting from an architectural or historic point of view, but it was relaxing.
If you MUST visit Porto, and I don't think it is bucket-list material , do take the wine cellars tour and tasting. It was fun, informative and entertaining, and yes, we bought a bottle of port.