I can't believe how many Irish people there are in Lisbon right now (or are they Scottish!?)! The whole downtown area (and maybe even the rest of Lisbon, I dunno), has been taken over by these loud people with green and white stripey shirts. I noticed a few yesterday evening while walking downtown and now they're simply everywhere. Apparantly there's some kind of game tonight, but I couldn't care less about it actually. This morning it rained. I woke up around eleven and most people in my room were gone already. Now I'm pretty much bored, waiting for tomorrow to happen. [View Full Entry]

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*Or: 'The red tap means hot, right?' Well, to be more precise, it's the Northern Irish Invasion. Lisbon has been taken over by the Northern Irish, who are here, from what we can gather, for a soccer match between Celtic FC and someone else (I guess a Portuguese side). I first noticed them last night when walking back through the city from Alfama. There were about six guys, all wearing stripey green and white jumpers, all very drunk and all very loud, wandering around with their arms around each others shoulders, singing Irish folk songs at the top of their lungs [View Full Entry]

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The last two nights I've been spending in a hostel and today I moved to another one. It's cheaper, but not as nice as the first. There are eight beds in this room! Feels a bit crowded, but apperently there are "only" six people staying here excluding me. Today I went to Cabo da Roca. It was nice except for the tourists, especially when two buses of Asian people came. Leaving on Thursday for Santa Clara-a-Velha where I'm going to do some WWOOFing. It's actually a guest lodge so there are plenty of stuff to do, I guess. Wikipedia says: Santa [View Full Entry]

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We arrived in Lisbon yesterday morning (again, no customs, so no stamp on the passport!). We're staying in a hotel here, which is a nice reprieve after the shocking WHE in Barcelona. It's like we're staying in someone's house - a very quaint and charming little hotel (and extremely cheap!) where Samyelena has been kind enough to let me have the double bed. No breakfast (unless we pay for a standard continental breakfast, which in our experience is a sweet bread roll and some honey), but that's no drama. After finding our way into the downtown area of the city (our [View Full Entry]

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After a night in the abandoned house, where I woke up every two hours or so, I set out to the woods with my mind set on the coast. The beach, the capes, something. Unfortunately, after walking in circles up and down the hills, with my now even heavier backpack, I set up camp not far from the fence I had climbed over a couple of hours ago. Deers are everywhere! I even saw the skeleton of one in the valley below. It sure freaked me out a bit, but once it was confirmed deer and not human it calmed my [View Full Entry]

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Sorry guys, we are writing this from Argentina and are catching up on a pretty hectic month. So this is going to be a long blog but please give it a read and check out the photos, it's worth it I promise. Leaving Alicante (sob) Our return to sightseeing in Spain after beach-bumming was becoming addictive had a tough start. We had to catch the bus to Alicante to then catch the train to Madrid. So we hoisted our packs, locked up the house (which had about 5 padlocks as well as the locks on the door)and then trundled off as [View Full Entry]

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After spending a few nights at Bruno's place I headed to the coast. Plan was to camp out in the woods but instead I walked upon an abandoned house somewhere between Cabo da Roca and Colares. Cars pass frequently outside my newfound bedroom. Since insects and other creatures are all over the place I put up my tent. There's a squatted house just next door which I spent a few hours outside cooking my food and waiting for the guy living there to come back. That place was a habitat of rats making a lot of noise and the guy living [View Full Entry]

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Olá queridos! Had a nice day in Cascais by the beach where I read a book and enjoyed the view of the ocean. Since I couldn't find a host for tomorrow I'm heading out to the most western part of Europe. Wanted to go there anyway, so why not! Hopefully I can find myself a peaceful place there without any disturbance. I'm still reachable by phone at any time if you need me. Be back in Lisbon latest on Monday. Tina. [View Full Entry]

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Today I've just been walking around in Lisbon a bit. I walked up and down and around. Then I accidently walked into a museum, quite boring if you ask me, and also a cathedral after some serious consideration. Then I found a free public toilet by the cathedral and due to some female issues I had to head back. As for this evening me and Bruno and his friend drove up to Sintra and checked out some places. There was a nice view of the city by the cross and apperantly it was Lover's Lane. And I thought that only happened [View Full Entry]

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Finally I got an answer from a WWOOFing farm in Beja. It's close to a lake, perfect! Think I'm gonna be heading down there next week. City life bores me. I miss breathing fresh air! [View Full Entry]

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