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Prologue: Tribute to the SWC South Africa 2010!D-Day: A beginning Eastfield to Istandbul: Grumpyness at 30000ft Turkish shuttle Istanbul by day Istanbul by night Long walk to freedom Lisbon walking tour Discovering Lisbon Exploring Sintra Fado’s night out The rain in Spain falls mainly on my brain A day in medieval Toledo Madrid on a Sunday Flamenco por una buena causa To Barcelona Barcelona! Barcelona!Gaudi in the morning Olympic in the afternoon Chilling in Barcelona La Rambla To Nice A Nice night Relax, take it Eze Monaco in an afternoon Chilling in Nice To Venice Our first day in Venice The attempt at Venice night photos The second day in Venice The last night in Venice The Farewell Frenzy in Firenze Exploring Florence Conquering the Dome Conquering the Torra Lucca, I am your father Picnic in Pisa A day in Pisa When in Rome…Ancient scorching Rome Welcome to Naples (and its crazy traffic)A day in Capri Ancient scorching Pompeii To Santa Fortunata Chilling in Sorrento Back to Rome Aida and the catacombs The Vatican in a flash The End

jnroux

Western Europe 2010

Discovering Lisbon

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Jun 23 2010, 11:49 AM

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jnroux
Somerset West, South Africa

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Lisbon, Portugal

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We started the morning with an awesome Yes! Hostel breakfast, which included Milo cereal and real orange juice. We then took Tram 15 to Belem area of Lisbon. We stopped at quite an impressive statue of an unknown man and thereafter walked towards the “Monument to the Discoveries.” We decided that it would not be worth paying to go up in the monument since there was still a lot of early morning haziness (smog). We move on to the most well known tower in Belem… the Belem tower. We bought dual tickets here: (1) to go into the tower and (2) to visit the Jeronimos Monastery (not at all like the Geronimo’s Spur in George). After going through the tower and taking countless pictures of pretty ships through arcs we started to make our way back to Monastery with an ice cream in hand. The Monastery was absolutely breathtaking… it must have taken years and years (or a lot of slaves) to carve all that detail from rock/marble. From the monastery we walked to the Pastries of Belem and then took Tram 15 back to the hostel. The tram was extremely warm (and we almost fried)… from here the saying that we now use: “SO WARM SOOS TREM 15”! After the near death experience we bought food for the night and next afternoon at the small supermarket near Rossi Square. We then searched for a park to have a picnic supper. We first walked a few unnecessary circles and then walked into the Underground Metro only to realise that it was not worth travelling that way. From there we walked pass Rossio Square into the Bairro Alto area, found a small park opposite the Lisbon Voluntary Fire-fighting department (they had bright neon orange fire trucks) and enjoyed our picnic. Finally, we strolled back down one of the walking streets and my mother made eye contact with a local… needless to she bought a double tile picture of the famous Tram 28 (which runs to the castle… not tram 15). During the walk back I was only offered Hasish three times and Cocaine once. I suppose my long beard and South African looks makes me a criminal?

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