12 Apr 2025
Our guide, Antonio, was a very friendly local architecture student. I can’t rate the tour higher however because none of this came through in the tour. There was light banter throughout but very little in the way of explanations of what we were seeing or the history of Porto. Ultimately it felt like we were being guided by a good friend who had been living in the city for just a few months.
Separately, and this perhaps is not the fault of the guide, the city’s connection with Harry Potter is tenuous at best. A book shop that may have inspired Hogwart’s staircases and a cafe where some of the early writing was done are about it. So advertising this as a Harry Potter tour feels a bit misleading.