Well despite beating up pickpockets, being offered pot on every corner and constantly exhausting ourselves in the heat and hill climbs, Lisbon has proved to be one fantastic little place in the world.
Wednesday saw us arrive by bus from Porto, a rather quick ride I must say. We promptly found our hostel which is amazing and definately made us SMILE. Then we dropped our bags and made a beeline for some lunch and the coast. After lunch we climbed to the top of the mountain to visit Castello de St George where Bec shocked herself at Portugal's lax approach to the safety of its tourist and an amazing camera which displayed Lisbon in 360º, very cool. We ended the day with dinner at a fado show in the Alfama district.
Thursday we headed out to Sintra by train. Sintra is a beautiful little town cut into the side of a mountain, kinda like Venice but without the water. When we left the train station, map in hand, we must have zigged when we were suppose to zag and ended up in a non intended location. But turned out to be a blessing in disguse as we were able to negotiate our way up the 529m hill easily. Whilst in Sintra we saw the Pena Palace and Park, the Moorish Castle and Sintra's national palace. All extremely pretty! We then headed back into town where we visited the national... independence.... discovery... something... monument and the Torre de Belem. Back at the hostel we cooked up some grub and drank cold portugese beer... whilst some friendly Canadians showed us the most amazing thing!!! GOOGLE EARTH!!!! You can find your location, your friends location, your home town!!! Its amazing... well, too me anyways.
Today is our final day in Lisbon, we're now off to loose three days on the beach! YAY!
But in the mean time... here are some happy snaps....
Us at the Castle
Fado Show.
Climb every mountain... atop the highest mountain in Sintra with Pena Palace.
J in Sintra's old town.
2 comments:
Sounds like you were real excited by that monument...hahaha
Tell us more about the pickpocket incident.
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