São João

On Saturday there was a Party. The whole city was the venue. You can read a bit about it here.

First we went to the city to eat some sardines. The whole city stank like sardines, every reastaurant had his own grill and some private people as well. 

Then we started to discover the strange thing about the evening: everybody had a plastic hammer, and they hit each other in the head. So we were eating and got hit with the hammers, we walked towards the river and got constantly hit by hammers. That's supposed to be for good luck. Then there were other things like garlic and mint  but I never figured out what those were for.

We went to a party at a friend's place, and they had the most amazing view to the river. Then at midnight there was the biggest fireworks that I have ever seen. I almost forgive the city of Porto for spending a ridiculous amount of money for that fireworks, when the money could be spent a bit more wisely. Anyway, later at night we hit the streets and there was so many people, good music and dancing on the streets, and more hammers of course. Definitely the most amazing night in Porto so far.