História do Bacalhau

Final stop of the day! It was a push to add in this Museum of Cod and we were rather tired as it was a prolonged wait for both buses to take us back to the centre of town. It seemed the museum had been done by the same folks as the Story of Lisbon, very entertaining and easy to absorb the information. They even had a room which was a "ride" where you could sit in a dory, it simulated a cold temperature and the rocking of the boat in the north atlantic seas. To think these men worked like slaves solo for 10 hours each day in these tiny wooden boats to catch cod and bring it back to the mother ship - for months at a time.
Homeward bound for our last night in Alfama, one more dinner to soak up the atmosphere, we had baked Portuguese sausages with onions and carrots, the last of the Calem Tawny Port and chocolate. It's going to be hard not to be gaining weight on this trip!Read more