Alone in Porto

How to do pretty much nothing on a city break.

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I think it’s a con that Christmas is advertised as ‘a break’. I love Christmas, I do. But it’s not a break. It’s planning, purchasing, wrapping, recipe-ing, thinking, doing, socialising.…