João and Susana are hospitable and open-hearted. The first thing they
did after introducing us to the house was giving us an enormous (and
tasty) village bread they baked minutes ago.

The house is full of XX century art albums - from Basquiat to
Hundertwasser; you can spend hours intending to go to the wine cellars
but turning pages over for hours instead. Japanese-style compositions
of carefully balanced wood pieces hang on thin wire from the ceiling.
Going down the street you surprisingly see gigantic wall drawings probably made by João and Susana on the abandoned houses (you guess who's the author because sketches for those drawings are pinned over your bed).

Formally out the city boundaries of old Porto, the house sits in the very centre of Wine Cellar Area. Taylor's, Offley and other big 300-year-old brands keep their century-old barrels ageing within 5 to 10 minutes walk form the house door. Metro (in fact, the fast tram diving underground from time to time) is also within 10 minutes walk.

View from the window is superb. The only minus is that for the people
at least 170cm tall the area near the window, as well as bathroom and
toiled may feel a little cramped.