I'm starting off with this happy looking picture of us enjoying Lisbon. I'm doing this because our introduction to Lisbon was anything but happy. We spent the first four hours (not exaggerating) driving back, forth, through, around, backtracking, left, right, up, down and hey didn't we go past this square already? trying to find our place to stay. Thank goodness I didn't waste any euros on the thermal baths because any calming effect would have been lost within the first 20 minutes of that four hours. But I won't dwell. Because once we got settled we found there was plenty to keep us happy in Lisbon. Though I won't lie the first night we were just happy for the really yummy Indian food after 3 days of so-so Portuguese fare. Not familiar with traditional Portuguese fare? There's a reason it hasn't made it out of the country.
Here's Mark as the king of his castle. Lisbon's castle sits on the highest hill in the city and gives great views. But the best castles in the area are about 25 kilometers outside of Lisbon in Sintra. There are four castles in a 3 kilometer radius. This one shows the Moorish influence you'll find in the southern part of Portugal.
There was also your more standard fort variety castle.
We enjoyed the grandeur of the castles but were itching by this point to head further south to the grandeur of nature and the spectacular beaches of the Algarve.
I'm starting off with this happy looking picture of us enjoying Lisbon. I'm doing this because our introduction to Lisbon was anything but happy. We spent the first four hours (not exaggerating) driving back, forth, through, around, backtracking, left, right, up, down and hey didn't we go past this square already? trying to find our place to stay. Thank goodness I didn't waste any euros on the thermal baths because any calming effect would have been lost within the first 20 minutes of that four hours. But I won't dwell. Because once we got settled we found there was plenty to keep us happy in Lisbon. Though I won't lie the first night we were just happy for the really yummy Indian food after 3 days of so-so Portuguese fare. Not familiar with traditional Portuguese fare? There's a reason it hasn't made it out of the country.
Here's Mark as the king of his castle. Lisbon's castle sits on the highest hill in the city and gives great views. But the best castles in the area are about 25 kilometers outside of Lisbon in Sintra. There are four castles in a 3 kilometer radius. This one shows the Moorish influence you'll find in the southern part of Portugal.
There was also your more standard fort variety castle.
We enjoyed the grandeur of the castles but were itching by this point to head further south to the grandeur of nature and the spectacular beaches of the Algarve.
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Kilometers? When the heck did you go Metric on us? Probably all that Canadian influence!
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