Blogs from Lisbon, Lisbon & Tagus Valley, Portugal, Europe - page 35

Well here goes..... the first proper blog!! It's still 5 months until we go properly but hopefully this will give you a taste of things to come. Not really sure exactly what to put on here so I will just keep typing until something makes sense. We had to get up at 4am to make the thrilling drive from Cheltenham to Luton Airport. A few hours later and we were winging our way to the hotel with a taxi driver who was moaning about global warming....... oh and we passsed two traffic accidents in the 10minute journey!! The rest of the day was spent eating, drinking and wandering around the centre of Lisbon. It was a public holiday so there was a lot of locals doing the same as us. That evening we learnt a very ... read more

day two began with the both of us awakening to what sounded like water dripping from the ceiling onto the floor at the edge of our beds. sure enough, there was indeed water coming from the ceiling. as it turned out, the person above us had let the water in the shower overflow, hence it proceeded to seep through the floor and into our room. we could've changed rooms, but whatever, it really wasn't that big of a mess, and they made the people stop showering in that bathroom upstairs... anyway, besides that quasi-trauma, our day started out once again with a delicious pastry breakfast, although this time we chose the famous Pasteleria Suiça in Rossio. Had ourselves almond croissants (made me crave my mother´s almond puff pastry) and amazing coffee while sitting in the Praça ... read more

Glorious Lisbon, for whatever reason, seems to have gotten the shaft by tourists visiting western europe. Considering its incredible landscape, history, architecture, people, cuisine, and language, its really a shame that its visited with such less frequency than other cities. I can honestly say that Lisbon is my new favorite city in Western Europe, beating out the big guys like Paris, London, and Madrid. Unless Rome and Florence totally enchant me next month, Lisbon is going to reign supreme... Being that this past week we had Thursday off, much of Spain goes on little trips for the long weekend. My friends Casey, Katie, and I decided we would head to Portugal, taking advantage of its proximity as well as the fact that Casey and I had both started learning Portuguese. Well it ended up that Casey ... read more

Beauty is a Fall Day in Lisbon Last Night Last night we strolled around the Baixa (pronounce Buy-Sha) district prior to dinner. Dinner in Lisbon doesn’t really start until 7pm and even then most people aren’t eating yet so, we took our tie heading to dinner. We just explored the area and looked at all the shops. Its easy to see why Europeans are more fashionable than Americans are, there are inexpensive (and expensive) clothing shops everywhere. Also, its interesting to compare what Capitalism has done to American business in compared with Europe in general. There are restaurants everywhere, some of them small than the average American bedroom. Its amazing that so many little places, its surprising they stay open. We ate dinner at Mrtinho da Arcada which is off the Placa da Commercio which ... read more

Hey all, Sara and I are in Lisbon at the moment. We have been travelling and seeking much or Portugal and Sapin. We will have spent one month in these two countries and could spend another two. Just a run down of the places we have visited, Barcelona, train to Valencia (the spanish say the letter c with a th sound), drove to Granada, Gibralter, Cadiz and then to Seville. We dropped the car off, saw as much as Seville as we could then we got a bus to Lagos. Beach paradise. We then got a train to Evora and Beja with about seven change overs. Now we are in Lisbon. We get on an overnight train to Madrid tonigt where we have on night before when head back to London and begin the next chapter.......work. ... read more