Today we left the hotel at 8:30 and took a driving tour of Lisbon. Saw part of a taxi driver protest of Uber, some very interesting architecture in the rich part of town and went across an 11 mile bridge.
In the county we learned to make tile – very labor intensive but also very beautiful. We got to paint our own tiles. They will be glazed and fired and delivered to us in Madrid. Continue reading Day 4 – Rural Portugal
Day 3 already? Day 1 and 2 ran together into just a really long day.
The hotel breakfast buffet was good. I skipped the beans and sausages but had eggs and bread and fresh fruit and some pretend coffee (not that great).
We headed out for the day at 8:30am. Drove around Lisbon to some tourist sites… A park, A monastery, a statue.. Had to either buy something or pay to use the bathroom at one place (only about 50 cents). They boasted the sexiest toilet paper on earth but we were skeptical. Continue reading Day 3 – Lisbon * Sintra
We arrived about 9 am Lisbon Time. My phone wasn’t working and I couldn’t access my Starbucks Card so I spent my first Euro on a Starbucks at the airport. It was not that good.
When we got to the hotel about 10, our room wasn’t ready so we got a map to go on a walk and have lunch. We walked about a mile downhill on a beautiful street. Lots of stores and signs in English and Portuguese. Portuguese looks somewhat like Spanish in print so I could pick out a few words (thank you Duo Lingo). We ate lunch at an outside cafe and then walked downhill another mile to the waterfront.
I told mom that this looks like what I would imagine San Francisco looks like with the cable cars and side streets but then there was a Times Square type building.
After we checked in to our hotel room and relaxed a little, we met the group for our welcome dinner.
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My mother and I are taking a trip called the Back Roads of Iberia: Spanish Paradores & Portuguese Pousadas. These are our daily adventures – written for our family while we were traveling – April / May 2016.
