In the beginning, there was the Archaeopteryx – the oldest fossil of a bird that has ever been found. When I was a child, I used to press my nose against the bulletproof glass at the Museum of Natural History in Berlin, fascinated by the imprint of this ancient creature in stone. I couldn’t quite grasp how something over 150 million years old could still be visible today. But even back then, I had this gut feeling: birds are something special. Now that I’m older, I prefer the living ones. They move, they sing, they fly. And best of all? They’re all around us.

It's always the same story, you arrive in a new country and a new city and you always end up wondering where you are going to have a safe vegetarian or vegan meal that does not involve a simple salad with 2 tomato slices.

Do you remember when you were a small child and used to play outside and put your fingers in the soil and simply enjoy collecting pine cones, leaves and berries and taste most of them on the spot?

Today, Oporto Adventure Tours will give you an insight into our famous traditional grape wine, Vinho Verde. It all started in the Northwest of Portugal, in the province of Minho, with the farmers working different plots of a very layered land. The soil was planted by many small growers that used to…