Another thing about Porto (and another reason I simply adore the city) is how it has not only kept the old habits, the old shops, the old buildings, etc, but it has given a modern twist to them as well.
For instance, this old bookstore, which has been turned into a coffee/tea shop, still selling books, has kept the facade, the signs inside and outside the store and even some of the objects that belonged to the original bookstore.
Then we found this huge and beautiful shop called A Vida Portuguesa, which sells really old portuguese brands - from soaps, to notebooks, to liquor, to pencils, to shaving creams, to whatever you can think of - while maintaining the original, beautiful and even naive branding and packaging style.
Their mission is to "create an inventory of brands that survived the passage of time, to highlight the quality of Portuguese manufacture and to showcase Portugal in a surprising light".
These are "products that have been passed down from generation to generation and are still in our hearts today"!
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