Great location, with the beach just a 100 meters away over the dunes. We made good use of the boardwalk along the dunes to visit neighboring beaches, including the one North past the nature reserve that has a great pasta/pizza restaurant. For caffeine lovers there is a bar in the adjoining road that does great coffee for your morning fix! We made good use of the metro (a shirt Uber taxi ride away) that runs through Mindelo to visit Porto a couple of times. Porto is a fascinating and historic city with much too see and do, whether it's taking the sites in from the famous bridge over the Douro river, visiting some of the historic buildings with the spectacular Porto blue tiles, catching one of the electric trams out the coast, or consuming the culinary delights...and of course there is the Port!