Fabric Shopping in Porto and Coimbra

 I am back from my road trip around the north part of Portugal. I love Portugal!!! Food is great, people are kind and calm, landscape is gorgeous, wine is delightful, weather in the summer is great... we could relax and simply enjoy our part of the summer there. We visited different places and towns, and we went fabric shopping in Porto and Coimbra.
In Porto I visited two fabric shops:

• Feria do Tecidos: cheap, too much polyester to my taste, but they have nice patterned viscose, both woven and jersey. A few silks and linens... I bought a flowery jersey viscose and some blue linen to make a play suit.
• Avenida 7: couture fabrics, wool and silk mainly. Expensive. I did not buy even a remnant.

In Coimbra there are more interesting shops:

• Coelho: small shop with nice fabrics, there is also a refined version I could not enter... the two sellers never offered me to enter that part, my touristy informal wear might have seemed not to prone on lace and silk. They lied when showing me the "natural fibers" I always ask for and thus lost my trust. They had a nice woven viscose at 12.00 E I did not buy. 
• I found then Tecidos de Coimbra. That was a shop worth a visit, yes sir! A very kind and knowing seller showed all the natural fiber they had in shop, they were grouped here and there: woven cottons, jersey cottons, corduroy, silk, linen, wool, denim... I spent 69 E in two linens (wait till you see my green one in a dress!), two corduroy pants amount of corduroy, and some thick cotton twill to make myself some rocker shorts. 

I am very happy with my fabrics. I was washing them and drying them in two days, and started making a linen dress right away, I have plans for all of them. In fact, I only bought items from my Keep list, to make pieces of clothing I already have designed in my mind.

I will go to London in one month, I can't hardly wait.