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    • Dag 1

      Planung vs. Glück

      19. august 2023, Portugal ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C

      Was für ein Start! Wenn man für eine 3,5h Fahrt 8h einplant um gemütlich Kaffeepausen machen zu können ist man auf der sicheren Seite. ...oder? Der Reiseverkehr sieht das und so kommen wir nach knappen 7 Stunden Fahrt um 17:00 am Flughafen Mailand Bergamo an. Koffer abgeben geht bis 17:10 & das Auto muss noch auf den Parkplatz. Uiii. Während Lioba und Dominik mit dem großen Koffer lossprinten, finden Sebastian und Chipo heraus, dass es eine Fastlane gibt, die noch schnell gebucht wird - wir brauchen jede Sekunde. 😅 Koffer fliegt per Sperrgepäck noch mit, Sicherheitskontrolle ist kein Problem und so sprinten wir zu Gate A6 - wo gerade Last Call zum Boarden ist. Punktlandung würde ich sagen.
      Die Landung des Piloten ist ...weniger punktgenau, aber immerhin alle unbeschadet gelandet. 😅
      Lisboa wir kommen.
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    • Dag 44

      Wandering around the Alfama

      27. oktober 2023, Portugal ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C

      After a little rest - I needed a lie down after our lunch at Belcanto - we decided to take a bit of a wander around the Alfama district in the evening. We headed upwards, climbing lots of stairs as we wound our way through the narrow streets. There are so many little bars and restaurants, and many of them offer Fado which is a style of singing that originated in the Alfama as this is where fisherman used to live. Fado is about longing and loss, as the job of a fisherman in Portugal is a dangerous job, even to this day. During our walk we came across some great lookout point that provided good views down to the river.Les mer

    • Dag 2

      Pátio de Dom Fradique - Ruine & Graffiti

      1. oktober 2019, Portugal ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C

      Auf dem Weg zum Castelo sind wir durch eine kleine Seitenstraße, welche uns einen sehr ungewöhnlichen Blick bot. Hier sind einige Ruinen von alten Gebäuden, welche voller Graffiti sind. Das gesamte ist umzäunt, sodass niemand in die Ruinen kann. Ob das Graffiti erwünscht war oder verbotenerweise angebracht wurde, wissen wir nicht. Sieht aber trotzdem sehr cool aus. Da hier in der Gasse auch ein paar kleine Stände sind und zudem öfters Musiker spielen, ist dieser Umweg jeden Schritt wert!Les mer

    • Dag 12

      Sardines and St. Anthony

      2. juli 2022, Portugal ⋅ ☀️ 73 °F

      I made my way back to Lisbon by way of the Museu do Oriente, an Asian art museum. It was a little disappointing, with more decorative furniture and Chinese opera and less porcelain and painting than I had been hoping. I returned to the Alfama district for an excellent food tour - three and a half hours of going from place to place, learning about local dishes and eating and drinking. After the tour, I couldn't resist wandering around the Alfama to enjoy the ongoing St. Anthony Sardine Festival. Apparently it's a joint celebration of St. Anthony of Padua, who was born in Lisbon and is revered in Lisbon although St. Vincent is actually their official patron saint, and the arrival of fresh sardines. It seemed like the whole neighborhood was out on the streets, selling grilled sardines on toast and ginja, a sweet cherry liquor, drinking Sagres, listening to bands and djs, and dancing. Some locals taught me how you're supposed to eat the drinking-snack snails - you suck them out of their shells and only use the toothpick for the difficult ones. Much faster than my toothpick-only method.Les mer

    • Dag 33

      Lisbon Letter (1)

      10. oktober 2022, Portugal ⋅ 🌧 18 °C

      No Lisbon travel story would be complete without a shot of tram 28 winding its way through the tortuous streets of the Alfama district. The photographs, however, don’t convey the shaking of building, rumbling and rattling of machinery and screech of steel wheel on rail that accompanies the passing of each one past our apartment. Two metres from our apartment. Every fifteen minutes (and often much more frequent), six-ish in the morning to after ten at night.

      Actually, despite the noise, the discovery that we were on the route for tram 28 was quite exciting, and we loved watching the trams squeeze through the narrow passageway near our place and being able to use them for some of our commuting into town. The Alfama district was a great and welcoming place to stay.

      We started our look around Lisbon on the bank of the Tagus River, staring at the vast, prosperous-looking Placa do Commercio, with King Dom Jose I in its centre and the massive triumphal arch of the Arco de Rua Augusta guarding the way inland.

      We visited the very well-presented Lisbon Story, an audio-visual telling of Lisbon’s history, especially in relation to the earthquake of 1755, which quite possibly resulted in 90,000 deaths as well as the flat, regular grid system of the downtown Baixa district, while the areas to the east and west are completely higgledy-piggledy.

      We walked up to the Miradouro de Alcantara, one of a seemingly endless number of viewpoints around the seven hills of the city, then rode downtown again on the funicular Ascensor de Gloria.

      By far the best views of the city and surrounds, however, were from Castelo de Sao Jorge (another Saint George - he seems to have utilised his dragon-killing skills in lots of places), where we also stumbled around the battlements and looked into some archaeological diggings.

      On our second day, the Lisbon Marathon took place. How they found enough relatively flat streets for it is anyone’s guess, but there was a great carnival atmosphere downtown, accompanied by cheers from the spectators and limping and groaning from the competitors.

      We also took in some culture at, among others, Mosteiro dos Jeronimos, west of town and containing the tomb of Vasco da Gama, as well as at Igreja de Sao Roque, a quite beautiful church with a museum devoted mainly to holy relics. Fortunately there were no saintly body parts on display this time.
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    • Dag 35

      Lisbon Letter (2)

      12. oktober 2022, Portugal ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C

      As well as having fun in Alfama, choosing badly in restaurants and eating too many custard tarts, we made a couple of day trips.

      Firstly, Evora, a couple of hours away by train, and probably most famous for the Capela dos Ossos, part of the Church of St Francis. Faced with a dearth of interior design ideas, and having 5,000 exhumed bodies on hand, the entrepreneurial Franciscan monks thought that lining the walls of the chapel would be a good use for all those hard-to-store bones.

      It was strangely aesthetic rather than gruesome, although the building trade are unlikely to offer it to would-be buyers anytime soon. Still, for DIY…

      There was also a museum displaying, among other things, a part of the monastery’s collection of over 2,000 nativity scenes, some of which were magnificent pieces of craftsmanship and others just plain weird.

      Evora also has a Roman connection, and we took a walk past the ruins of the Temple of Evora, another part of the town’s UNESCO heritage.

      We also visited Sintra, set in a lush, beautiful bunch of hills just northeast of the city.

      Joining a surging mass of tourists, we queued up for our turn in the Pena Palace, a fantastical faux fortress built in 1838, by then King Consort Ferdinand II (although it was on the site of a ruined fortress that had existed since the Middle Ages). It had spectacular views of the surrounding countryside (at least, after the fog lifted) and the clambering around the ramparts was fun, but we had to sort of flow through the interiors along with the rest of the sea of visitors and didn’t really get a chance to savour the experience.

      More interesting in some ways was the National Palace, in Sintra township itself. With heritage dating back to the Moors and additions made, mainly in the 15th and 16th centuries, by a succession of kings and queens, it was a quite fascinating look at the way the royal court lived and interacted with the rest of us.

      The National Palace also has a pair of very distinctive tall, white towers and we pondered over their use until, at the end of the tour, in the kitchen, we found out that they were the chimneys!

      Our time in Lisbon has now come to an end, almost as soon as we had mastered the metro, taken the tram and learnt the labyrinth of the local area. We are off to the Algarve tomorrow for - hopefully - some time in the sun.
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    • Dag 1

      Alfama

      4. april 2023, Portugal ⋅ 🌙 18 °C

      Wir sind einfach mal drauf los gelaufen und haben die Altstadt erkundet.
      Überall reges treiben in den kleinen Gassen, aus den Lokalen hört man hier und dort den Fado und es duftet an allen Ecken nach leckeren Fischgerichten...Les mer

    • Dag 307

      Lissabon 2

      3. mai 2023, Portugal ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C

      Alte Strassenbahnen , der schönste Fahrstuhl der Welt und der tollste Hundeplatz mitten in der Stadt. Lissabon verzaubert , auch wenn die Stadt viel zu überlaufen ist. Daher fahren wir wieder zurück auf die andere Flussseite und genießen den Ausblick auf die ganze Stadt.Les mer

    • Dag 3

      Restaurant Gato Pardo

      13. mai 2023, Portugal ⋅ 🌙 16 °C

      Hier gibt es Tapas. Oktopussalat, Schweinebäckchen in Rotweinsoße und vor allem die Garnelen sind sehr zu empfehlen. Dazu Kartoffeln, Brot sowie grüne Paprika und das Abendessen ist perfekt 😋😋😋 Der Sangria war ebenfalls spitze sowie die nette Bedienung mit sehr guten Deutschkenntnissen.
      Sehr zu empfehlen!
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    • Dag 4

      Restaurant Gato Pardo

      14. mai 2023, Portugal ⋅ 🌙 17 °C

      Auch draußen sitzt man zu späterer Stunde schön, man sitzt windgeschützt und es stehen Decken zur Verfügung.
      Sehr sehr empfehlenswert sind neben den Garnelen auch die Fleischbällchen sowie der Starter mit Brot, Olivenöl, Oliven und Thunfischaufstrich. Der rote und der weise Sangria sind sehr lecker, mein Favorit ist allerdings der weiße. Beide werden frisch zubereitet😋😋😋Les mer

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