Blogs from Lisboa, Portugal, Europe - page 16

Olá !!! Um Pouco de Português Finally. Yes that's the word that describes this destination that I want to visit for ooh soo long. Four lovely days in this beautiful and sunny city. I really needed to escape my town and feel a lil bot of sun. When I was still in the plane, I could see how cute and beautiful this city was. Day 1: Arrived very early in the morning, we went straight to our hostel called "Lisbon Destination Hostel" that is located in the "Rossio Train Station". Yes you read it very good, it was in the train station. After making the check-in, we took the metro to go to the "Estadio Da Luz", the football stadium of Benfica Lisbon. If you have read my previous blogs, you will know that I'm a ... read more

V Lizbono me pelje cesta vse pogosteje. Mogoče zaradi morja, ali pa ker je blizu, mogoče zaradi Portugalcev, mogoče so krive sladice, mogoče pa ni popolnoma nič, ker od vseh strmin in klančin v Lizboni se lomijo kolena. Enoma je slikal, Sanjeev in jaz sva pa plesala in skakala.... read more

Lisboa (Lisbon) the capital of Portugal 21 and 22 Aug 2013 Lisboa with is almost 2 million people, occupies a hilly site on the estuary of the Tagus River. Over the centuries the city expanded along the coast to Belem, the starting point for the voyages of discovery in the 15th century. Vasco de Gama, Magellan and Christopher Columbus all left from here (will someone correct me here please?). We heard that the city underwent a great cleanup for the Expo ’98 exhibition, especially in the old docks and industrial areas along the waterfront. The area is very attractive now. From our campsite we caught the bus which took 20 minutes to get into the city centre. It was certainly a rough ride through some of the narrow cobbled stoned streets. The campsite was to the ... read more

Last night we had a great welcome reception that led left no man hungry, in the old district of Alfama. It beauty was being a quaint restaurant slightly below grade, with the original floor pre-earthquake which was quite cool. There was an old church from the 1600th century just 2 door shown that managed to survive, of course I have a heap of photos but on my SLR and they are in raw format so can't show you until I get home. Should just start taking photos with my iPad, if only for blogging! This morning we left for our full day of sightseeing, and man was it packed and wonderful. However the most interesting part of my day was when I decided to go stroll the streets of Portugal, and listening once again to Lonely ... read more

So I'm going to finish off from Monday, July 29, 2013.... and then we went swimming and then had dinner then went to bed. So know I'm going to write about what happened on Wednesday and Thursday! Wednesday, July 31, 2013 So today we woke up and had breakfast then we went to Spain and it took 3 hours to get there. When we got there we parked at a shopping mall and my dad had to get change so he went to McDonalds and he had a coffee and then we left to go to get on a bus and then we left and after that the bus dropped us off and by then it was lunch time and we had lunch then walked around and we saw churches and gardens! Then after that we ... read more