Lisbon Spring 2024

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Anu and I had to make tough choices today:

Do we go to our Lisbon WOW class? Or meet up with Lisbon Sketchers? We chose to broaden our circle and meet a whole bunch of international urban sketchers (including Portuguese 🤣) at Jardim da Estrela. Lots of existentialism with a side order of smoking for some 🥸 🚬. Wow. What a quintessential European experience for this American.

Do we walk or Bolt to lunch on the way to the National Azulejos (tiles) museum? Bolt it was, and I had my SECOND full conversation in Português, with José our driver. 🎉🎉🎉 My cold is working its way through all the stages, and I was explaining why I was masking. 😷 He immediately masked up, and we continued on with our lively convo.

Do I have vegan Himilayan momos for lunch? Or beyond burger? Yup. Such a hometown girl.

Do we go to the fado dinner? Or rest up at home? It was hard to miss the fado performances, but, really, it seemed smarter to isolate (sorta) and rest. Can't wait to hear the report tomorrow from the WOWsters who went to fado.

So dinner was a protein ball from Honest.Greens that I had packed for "just in case" today.

It was NOT a hard choice of how to paint the vibrant afternoon view from our kitchen table. (See the next post for the sketches.) ☺️🧡💛💚💙☺️Read more