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Holiday narrowboats in Northern Portugal
2 narrowboats
from £20 / night
£111 - £176 / week
“GREAT !!” I have just returned from a weeks holiday on board one of Jose’s Macgregor 26’ yacht and felt I had to give account of our experience. I think the best way to do this is to give a moment by moment account of events. We flew into Porto and got the train to Ferradosa. Very cheap and a very pleasant journey of about two and a half hours. Jose meet us at the station and took us for a meal at the local village restaurant up in the hills. The meal was very nice, and very good value for money. On our return to the marina Jose suggested we stay in one of his Chalets until the morning when we could transfer to the boat in daylight. The chalet was very nice and comfortable. In the morning Jose came and took us back to the village to do some shopping in the supermarket. We then transferred to the yacht and made our way east. The scenery here is breathtakingly beautiful and the tranquillity bewitching. We made our way to a berthing known locally as “fish soup bay” beside a railway bridge built by Eiffel. Again a very beautiful spot, and only a short walk to a lovely restaurant where the lady proprietor laid on a superb evening meal with local wine for only 20 euros!! Unfortunately in the late evening a recurrent medical condition decided to manifest itself and being short crewed I felt it would be better to head back to the marina and use the boat as a floating caravan. On the way back we stopped for the evening at another berthing and had yet another excellent meal, and the following morning arrived back at Ferradosa. I explained to Jose of my predicament and said that we were happy to use the yacht as a floating caravan, but Jose would hear nothing of this, and put use up in another of his excellent chalets, FREE OF CHARGE! During the next few days my health deteriorated and I found myself in great pain, and was very grateful for the comforts of this lovely chalet. Jose came back and took use to the supermarket, but not before taking us on a little side excursion trip to a local mountain top monastery with “out of this world” views to the east and west. Alas all too soon the holiday was over and we made our way back to Porto to catch our flight back to the UK. In summery what can I say about Jose’s wonderful marina, and his excellent boats? In short we are booking-up to go back again in May Chris Fiorentini.
from £147 / night
£589 / week
