Lisbon day 1

The final day with our rental car and we needed to travel around 50km from Arouca to Porto unscathed and return it. We drove to Campanha rail station where I dropped Debbie with our big bags then drove without my navigator on board to tell me which exit to leave roundabouts but I managed to get to Ramalde, about 8km across town to return the car. Got on the metro back to Campanha where we met up and boarded the train to Lisbon. We ended up cancelling our original tickets bought online in first class for an earlier train second class so it was nice to mix with the peasants 🤭. Couldn’t tell the difference to be true. Anyway, 4 hours later and we were in Lisbon. We met a guy to let us into our apartment in an old building directly above Taylor’s Port tasting rooms. What’s the chances. We grabbed some supplies then went out and had pizza in a beautiful setting under the cathedral walls, followed by a night stroll into the Alfama area. Bars, restaurants and buskers around every corner and we came across a young girl playing on a beautiful terrace looking over the Tagus River. Amazing.Read more