Blogs from Lisboa, Portugal, Europe - page 23

Last Thursday November 18 until Friday the 19 I ventured to Lisbon, Portugal...for the night. I went with my friend Stephanie. We met in the airport, this time there was plenty of to get to the airport. Luckily I brought some of my work so I could get it done. But anyways, our flight was at 6:15, and its an hour and a half flight, but with the time difference I was in Portugal by 6:30. We had to go through a custom check, and I was sure to ask about getting my passport stamped but unfortunately they don't do that from Spain. So we worked our way through the airport to figure out how to catch a bus to the hostel. We found the "aerobus" and hoped on and it took us downtown to where ... read more

We flew in from Barcelona to Lisbon airport, mid morning on a Tuesday. A reasonably brief 2 hour flight we were probably the only two tourists in the midst of lots of business men and women - all obviously flying in from Spain to Portugal for work. We hopped the airport shuttle and headed into the centre of Lisbon. We were sad to leave Spain but happy to get to yet another interesting port of call. This was our first time in Portugal for both of us but not our first attempt at trying to get there. Earlier in the year, the Icelandic Volcano 'Eyjafjallajokull' (try and say that over and over) had stopped us from spending a long awaited weekend in Lisbon, instead we both had to go to work on the Monday when we ... read more

After 5 lovely days in Lisbon we are in the air, en route to Istanbul via London. My parents, who are flying to meet us from Amsterdam (where they spent 4 lovely days with Thai family partying it up and eating yummy hot Thai food…… why didn’t we think of going there again????) are still there as their flight was overbooked, but they got a VERY decent euro compensation! Anyways back to our story! We arrived in Lisbon on Friday afternoon from Sintra. Our hotel was very central, a short stroll from the metro and bam in the middle of one of the main pedestrian malls in Lisbon. We took a stroll down to Placo de Comercial in the late afternoon to take some happy snaps. And got numerous offers of hash along the way! I ... read more

For our first big weekend trip, we decided to go to Portugal. This included an original group of 8 (already quite a large group) and I took on the role of logistics planner. We knew we wanted to go to Lisbon, but I had also heard from my high school Spanish teacher, Mr. Armstrong, that Algarve in the south of Spain was also very nice. So, I put together a trip that had us flying into Lisbon where would spend 2 nights and 1 day and then train down to Algarve for two days and a night on beaches and fun. Well, this sounded like such a great itinerary, that more people wanted to go, and by the time we left, we had 14 people venturing off to Portugal. The adventure started with a delayed plane… ... read more

POslednji dan smo malo vise proveli blejuci u hostelu gledajuci TV i igrajuci SPS3. Samo smo prosetali do erie Expa, ja mislim ´96, koji je bio veliko cudo tada. Hale, trzni sentar, fontane, ali najlepse su baste odmah do reke napravljene od biljaka na koje su portugalci nailazili tokom svojih putesestvija pri istrazivanju sveta.Odmah iz Expa se nalazi jedno stvarno veliko cudo, najduzi most u Evropi i stvarno mu se jedva vidi kraj. Sutradan, uzimamo voz do nekog gradica blizu, cisto zato sto Lisabon nema zgodno mesto za stopiranje. Tu se gubimo i tracimo pola dana po gradu, ali od tad sve krece ko po loju. Hvatamo jedan stop, pa cim smo izasli, ni ruku nismo digli staje drugi, pa treci i eto nas u nekom turistickom gradicu. Nema nesto posebno da nam ponudi, centar sa ... read more