Riga to Porto, Portugal from €110

🌍 About porto

Porto's signature dish is the francesinha: a brick of toasted bread layered with steak, ham, and sausage, blanketed in melted cheese and drowned in a spiced tomato-and-beer sauce, fries on the side. Order it once, share it, and don't plan much after. The thing most people get wrong: the port wine lodges aren't in Porto at all — they're across the Douro in Vila Nova de Gaia, a short walk over the Dom Luís I bridge, and the tastings are there. Come in June: it's the warmest, driest month with crowds still manageable, and the May and September shoulders are nearly as good. Skip December through February unless cheap fares tempt you — Porto's winter is genuinely wet, rainier than most of northern Europe, not just grey.