Hello all,
Today was our first full day in Lisbon, Portugal. We went on a sightseeing hop on hop off bus tour thingy. It took us around the city with a historical commentary. We saw some cool buildings and got out at the coast. We ate lunch at a little seafood cafe, for less than 9 euro, it was pretty good. We saw a bridge that connects Lisbon to another part of Portugal and it looks a lot like the Golden Gate Bridge, same colors, just not as tall. It's called the 25 de Abril Bridge if you want to look it up.
The city is really old and cool looking. Lots of tiny alleys. Our hostel is in alley and it was pretty hard to find yesterday. The breakfast is just cereal and toast, not too filling. Heather really wants "a nice breakfast sausage."
Also, there are a lot of pastry shops on the streets so we stopped in one on the way back today and I got a donut thingy and Heather got chocolate mousse, which was apparently heaven...
Fun fact of the day, our hostel is called Alface, which means lettuce in Portuguese. Pretty much everyone speaks enough English here for us to get by, which is nice.
That's all for now.
Peace out.
P.S. The commenting of our readers could use some improvement, haha, we're not sure if anyone is reading this.
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I'm reading this. I posted a comment about Le Eiffel Tower. Did you not read it? Are you sure alface means "lettuce" instead of "let us"? Just checking. . .
ReplyDeleteI've been smelling what you're stepping in, I mean reading what you guys have been posting. And I'm not surprised that skank wants "a nice breakfast sausage", just sayin'.
ReplyDeleteWe're reading what you're blogging. Lettuce! What kind of name is that? Maybe it's because you are all sandwiched in together? Food sounds great. Hope you are taking lots of pictures of the shopping areas and houses on streets. Need original pictures to paint. You can post pictures here instead of Flickr if you want. Have fun...can't wait to read next blog.
ReplyDeleteI (Maggie) was talking to the guy who runs the hostel yesterday, Bart, and he said that the word Lisbon is a type of lettuce so they wanted the name of their hostel to be connected to that in some way so they went with alface.
ReplyDeletestill working on getting the pictures from the camera onto the computer...
Later