Lissabon

Yes! We were in Lissabon and haven't been chilling around as you'd assume due to my inactivity these past two three days, even though we have done a fair bit of chilling as well.

So I'll start off saying: getting to this "Palace de Pena" or whatever it's called was a pain in the arse.

We thought cool we have a car, we can just drive up, take some pictures, leave.

No. A guy said there were no parking spaces up there, and lead us to some car park a million miles away from the main attraction and said we had to either pay 15€ for the bus or 20€ per person for a tuktuk. Pah! Ain't no one ripping Nat-The-Traveller off, no no!
So I dictated we try the car again because there were loads of other cars using the street up to where we would have gone, had we not been interrupted. Alas, Nat is not entirely always right, and it was true: no way up since the police was only letting tuktuk and busses through. Pff, still - the guy might as well have been lying. 🤓

Anyway, we decided that it wasn't possible the bus was more expensive than a tuktuk (at least not in Portugal, and funny enough a tuktuk driver tried selling us his ride as cheaper saying he costs 20€ per person, but the bus costs 16€ per person one way. which was a lie, we paid 24€ for both, both ways. instead of 40€ with the tuktuk.)

We got driven up the hill just the two of us with a super friendly bus driver, checked out the castle, me seeing the end of my life when walking around the narrow side of one of the towers and leaving to see "Torre de Belem" subsequently. We went shopping in a mall, saw a ToysRus I thought I'd never see again and found out Pink Street is not literally a pink street as assumed. More like a place for... well... colorful rainbow people?

Had some Mexican food in Lissabon and I witnessed a drug exchange. A guy behind Luke unscrewed something underneath a trash-can top and handed a white looking bar to a guy that tucked it away as discreetly as possible. 💊💉Read more