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Review : Portugal

Trainspotter heaven
From the Daily Mail
TG, read the letters on the T-shirts of the guides who greeted us at Porto airport. What did they mean? Four-year-old Joseph jumped up and down by my side, as I asked the tall man next to me.
'Portuguese Traction Group,' he beamed back, already in trainspotter heaven. My heart sank. What had I done?
I knew how much Joseph and my husband, Christy, adored railways, and Portugal sounded enticing - a vintage rail tour of the beautiful and unspoilt Douro Valley.
But was it to be a week trapped with a group of people talking of nothing but trams and railway engines?
I looked around hopefully and saw a cross-section of couples of all ages.
The males were obviously train buffs - the women, I wondered about. Later I was to discover that many of them had followed their husbands around the world in pursuit of the ultimate railway experience.
As one woman put it wearily when I asked if she had ever been on a train holiday before: 'Oh, endless, dear. If I didn't, he'd just go by himself.'
Like her, I decided simply to give myself up to the experience and see what happened. Surprisingly, I am very glad now that I did - or I would have missed out on one of the most enjoyable family holidays of my life.
Less than two hours from the airport the scenery changed dramatically from scrubby pines and motorway to breathtaking views of the Douro Valley - grey-green slopes sweeping majestically to the river below.
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