Friday Night Dinner: Vinum
After one of our entertainments, a tour and tasting of Graham's port wines, we had booked a table at Vinum. Situated at Graham's Port Lodge with magnificent views over Porto, the Douro river, and Vila Nova de Gaia. It had come recommended by a colleague.
First we were briefly seated outside for a drink with a great view, which was unexpected (and a little chilly). After this confusion was resolved, we were seated at a large table, in an airy and bright room, and the great view—they don't guarantee you get that though. It was also fairly quiet when we got there, at 18:30.
The restaurant also does a tasting menu (with wine pairing, if you desire), but we went à la carte again. We forwent our starter, and instead had four very plumb oysters.
As main course I selected the grilled tuna, which was wrapped in chard and slightly seared — which is how it is supposed to be. It came with a charred pepper and garlic mash. My wife picked the "Vace Velha" tataki, which was served with a roast potato and caramelised onions. The port lodge's owners also produce Duoro wines, so to go with our meal we selected a bottle of Altano Reserva 2021, a rich and complex white wine.
We still had some space for desserts, and my wife choose a baked peach with vanilla ice cream, and I had a pineapple dish. As we were in a port lodge, we paired this with a Graham's 20 years old Tawny, which was served in a gigantic 4.5l bottle. The tray that came on, also contained a port from 1882, but at €900 a glass, a little over budget.
The food was good, and the service excellent. The view magnificent, and the atmosphere relaxing. It was a "bit" of a hike up the hill, but certainly worth visiting — especially after also having done a tour of their warehouses.
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TIL that Kingfishers can hover just like hummingbird. I'll hopefully have some reasonable shots after I've gone through my nearly thousand shots today...
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I think this was my favourite photo of the set that I took. It's not at maximum coverage, but it does have a sun spot group (4508) just on the cusp of the terminator.
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No totality here in London, but still had a great evening out in the local park and taking some snaps.
I did have a nice Solar Filter that I made for my lens, and had many conversations with people from different backgrounds. Kids loves to look through my filter after I was done (ran out of battery power).
More photos later...
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Merged pull request #1100
Fixed issue #2267: Application slow when debugger is not listening on…
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Is there somebody who runs PHP on native windows (with Xdebug) and can run a simple script for me?
It must be in a file (`test.php`):
```
<?php
echo microtime(true), "\n";
xdebug_connect_to_client();
echo microtime(true), "\n";
```And run like:
php -dxdebug.log_level=11 -dxdebug.log=c:\temp\xdebug-i.log -dxdebug.client_host=localhost -dxdebug.client_port=9111 -dxdebug.mode=debug c:\temp\test.php
With the port 9111 not open.
Would love to see the output and log file (in a DM).
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@harry_wood This is this list of 100 Go-mistakes that I was talking about: https://100go.co/
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Enjoying my afternoon and evening out at Lords for some cricket!
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