Usually I dont visit super-touristic places. I avoid it. This time in Oporto I noticed there were policemen in maaany points of the city, which is logic. But for example, there were a couple of cops in the door of the Hard Rock Coffee
The amount of British-German-Scando tourists is not normal. There are thousands of them.
The city is uber-oriented toward tourism. Massification in many famous points of the city is tremendous (Lello bookstore, Tower of Clérigos, Ribeira district to take a cruise, some restaurants (where you have to wait your turn a long while), the tramways...
Also, the state of the most of buildings of the Ribeira district is striking: On one hand they are beautiful, colorful and appealing and on the other hand their state is ruinous (due their age).
But as I have said already, one of the things that more caught my attention is the level of integration of blacks/mulatos in the Oporto society.
My hotel was full of British tourists. Most of them were 55 years old onwards. They seemed retired people. Quite peaceful. Nothing to do with young-medium British that come to Spain and that are total retarded.
Same with the rest of British that we saw across the city.
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