Welcome to Lisboa, Portugal

Encore was docked and cleared by the authorities at Santa Apólonia by the time our scheduled 9:00a arrival time came around.

Deniz was on another ship’s tour today … to Obidos. We had plans for another DIY day.

On our previous visits to Lisbon, we strolled the streets of the city, getting lost on-purpose in some of the backstreets where we ate delicious food in hole-in-the-wall eateries. We hiked up to and around the Castillo. We spent a day at the amazing Mosteiro dos Jerónimos and the Cloister in Belem, and wandered the galleries of the Archaeological Museum. We went to the Museu Nacional do Azulejos to check-out the jaw-droppingly beautiful and detailed tile murals depicting the history of the area. We shared with friends a dinner of octopus at Solar 31 … a meal that Mui still raves about.

What we did not manage to do was squeeze in a visit to the world-renowned Calouste Gulbekian Museum. We aimed to change that today.

But first … here are some “Welcome to Lisboa” scenes … with the city bathed in the golden light of the morning sunshine.Read more