Day 10 – Lisbon, Portugal

No tours planned for today. Technically this is my second visit to Portugal (we stopped in the Azores when I was with Disney Cruise Line) but it was my first trip to the mainland.

It look some time for Lisbon to grow on me. We started out around 10am, early for us, at the “bottom” of the city, near the water.

The city was still sleepy and it was chilly. There wasn’t much going on at this hour except for a marathon. We did what we’d done in the other cities: walk around, take pictures, eat lunch, window shop.

It’s hillier in Lisbon than I expected. There’s an elevator that will save you some uphill walking:

We walked along what I perceived to be their Champs-Élysées:

Relaxed in a square for awhile.

We finally found an Internet cafe (our first of the trip, not counting the $.65/min one on the ship) at a Western Union and got our Internet on.

Then finally stopped around 2pm for an excellent lunch at Locanda Italiana:

All in all it was a fun day and a neat city. BTW, Lisbon is the site of a sister bridge to the Golden Gate in SF, called the 25 de Abril Bridge:

Yes, the ship does go under that bridge on the way out of Lisbon. Yes, it looks like a tight squeeze. No, I didn’t have the foresight to sprint up to the top deck to watch.

Next stop: Gibraltar. Dizzying heights (for one of us), the World’s Most Narrow Roads, and those damn dirty apes.